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maintained the following office address with Raymond Grant
(Grant), the sole owner and president of ECI Corp.:
Grant/Roberts
Investment Banking
Tax Sheltered Investments
745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 410
New York, New York 10022
Grant was instrumental in the hiring of Ulanoff as an evaluator
of the Plastics Recycling transactions. The two had met on a
cruise. Roberts and Grant together have been general partners in
other investments.
Prior to the Northeast transactions, Roberts and Grant were
clients of the accounting firm H. W. Freedman & Co. (Freedman &
Co.). Harris W. Freedman (Freedman), a certified public
accountant (C.P.A.) and the named partner in Freedman & Co., was
the president and chairman of the board of F & G Corp. He also
owned 94 percent of a Sentinel EPE recycler. Freedman & Co.
prepared the partnership returns for ECI Corp., F & G Corp., and
Northeast. It also provided tax services to John D. Bambara
(Bambara). Bambara is the 100-percent owner of FMEC Corp., as
well as its president, treasurer, clerk, and director. He, his
wife, and his daughter also owned directly or indirectly 100
percent of the stock of PI.
D. Petitioners and Their Introduction to Northeast Resource
Recovery Associates
Petitioners resided in Tenafly, New Jersey, at the time
their petition was filed. Hereafter, reference to petitioner in
the singular denotes Donald N. Merino.
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