Post by pavel on Feb 8, 2016 20:59:55 GMT -6
Santa Fe foundation sues former executive director; music promoter says allegations ‘entirely frivolous’
SANTA FE – The Heath Foundation, a Santa Fe-based non-profit that promotes music concerts and is pushing a solar energy initiative, claims in a lawsuit that its former executive director owes the foundation money and “converted” planned concerts to his new organization after he was fired.
Longtime Santa Fe music promoter Jamie Lenfestey, who left Heath in April 2015 to join up with Albuquerque’s Amp Concerts, said in a statement that he “clearly” resigned from Heath and wasn’t terminated. “For that and a wide variety of other reasons that will be addressed if this goes forward, this lawsuit is entirely frivolous,” said Lenfestey.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in state District Court doesn’t specify an amount Lenfestey is said to owe or have benefited from through “unjust enrichment.” It says Lenfestey opened unauthorized bank accounts and that Heath’s concert revenue for 2014, based on its tax return, was about $933,000, “while Lenfestey only reported $868,300” to a new bookkeeper.
Among other allegations, the suit says at least six concerts “had been booked, and in some case advertised, as Heath concerts events” prior to Lenfestey’s departure from Heath and “were subsequently converted to AMP without Heath’s approval of knowledge.”
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/720551/abqnewsseeker/heath-foundation-files-suit-against-former-executive-director-music-promoter.html
SANTA FE – The Heath Foundation, a Santa Fe-based non-profit that promotes music concerts and is pushing a solar energy initiative, claims in a lawsuit that its former executive director owes the foundation money and “converted” planned concerts to his new organization after he was fired.
Longtime Santa Fe music promoter Jamie Lenfestey, who left Heath in April 2015 to join up with Albuquerque’s Amp Concerts, said in a statement that he “clearly” resigned from Heath and wasn’t terminated. “For that and a wide variety of other reasons that will be addressed if this goes forward, this lawsuit is entirely frivolous,” said Lenfestey.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in state District Court doesn’t specify an amount Lenfestey is said to owe or have benefited from through “unjust enrichment.” It says Lenfestey opened unauthorized bank accounts and that Heath’s concert revenue for 2014, based on its tax return, was about $933,000, “while Lenfestey only reported $868,300” to a new bookkeeper.
Among other allegations, the suit says at least six concerts “had been booked, and in some case advertised, as Heath concerts events” prior to Lenfestey’s departure from Heath and “were subsequently converted to AMP without Heath’s approval of knowledge.”
Read more: www.abqjournal.com/720551/abqnewsseeker/heath-foundation-files-suit-against-former-executive-director-music-promoter.html