Creditors Sue FCC Chairman’s Top Aide in Seattle Court

CREDITORS SUE FCC CHAIRMAN'S TOP AIDE IN SEATTLE COURT
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Daniel Gonzalez, FCC chairman Kevin Martin’s chief of staff, has been sued in state court by a pair of creditors stemming from his involvement with a Seattle-based oil and gas company under federal investigation for allegedly operating a $54 million Ponzi scheme. Gonzalez, who has been on Martin’s personal staff since February 2002, became FCC chief of staff in April 2005 just a month after President Bush gave Martin the title of chairman. Martin has run the FCC by relying on a rigid, top-down management style enforced by Gonzalez with unhappy results for some senior FCC officials viewed as hostile to Martin’s goal of administering strong regulatory medicine to cable operators. Gonzalez was sued in his capacity as a director of MCube Petroleum, which had been seeking investors to fund oil and gas drilling in Indonesia. Former MCube CEO Robert Miracle, a co-defendant with Gonzalez in the same suit, is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme that involved 200 investors and about $54 million.
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