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Dear Bears Corporate community,
I am a concerned citizen and I find it extremely offensive when the "race card" is thrown out there just because! Especially when I have firsthand knowledge that Desmond Clark isn't the model citizen and pillar of society that he claims to be.
This is how we met ex Chicago Bear Desmond Clark. My coworkers and I attended many of his radio shows and public appearances after-hours in various Lake county bars or restaurants. He did a lot of his weekly radio shows live at the Titled Kilt Vernon Hills, IL. location and many other Lake county venues. The listings are on the internet and at #desmondclark #dezclark on Facebook events as well. We also attended his charity gala bowling event at 10 Pin Chicago in the spring of 2012, his chili contest at the Arboretum of South Barrington and his event at Mad River Chicago, IL. among others....
As a donation item for his 88 ways charity his soon to be wife sold glass jars of his spice rub at these events without FDA approved packaging and labeling! He once bragged to his radio show co-host Bryan or Ryan (don't know his last name but should be easy to find out as they called him "non discript white guy" who was also his charity business manager) that he packaged his product in his Vernon Hills townhome garage. We found out he didn't bother to obtain a sanitation certificate, approved kitchen or commissary license and was without product liability insurance which according to Lake county IL. health department and Illinois food production laws is illegal!
He was selling 100s of these jars of spices weekly, tax free under the guise of his 88 ways charity which is NOT a non-profit organization! And according to the Illinois department of revenue; at that time they had no such registration of his charity on record!
He knowingly withheld this income from Lake county and Illinois state revenue officials! And if those citizen/consumers got ill from his illegal unlicensed food item it would have been huge!! Plus he cheated on sales tax!!
He noticed we attended many of his events and found out we were employed by a large fortune 500 company so in 2012 he invited our corporate office to a tailgate event his 88 Ways charity put on in conjunction with his real estate office Caldwell Banker Arlington Heights, IL. He solicited us to be a corporate sponsor for his charity. His pitch sounded iffy, almost conniving! An official of the village of Arlington Heights stopped by to investigate the outdoor event due to the numerous complaints they received by the number of school buses that Mr Clark bussed in from the inner city. The people getting off the busses looked like street thugs and criminals! Mr Clark didn't care what the village of Arlington Heights thought and as long as these people on the busses had cash to give him that's all that mattered to him!
Our company used its vast resources and did its due diligence in our investigation of Mr Clark and his charitable organization 88 ways as he continued to push and attempt to coerce us to donate several thousands of dollars to him. We discovered that his charity was registered in Florida and operating in Illinois without being registered with the Illinois department of revenue as a tax free charity! It is NOT a non-profit! His organization was asking for and was accepting charitable donations and he wasn't reporting this income to the state of Illinois. Plus, he wasn't paying sales tax on retail sales items he purchased for his charities usage that wasn't sales tax exempt, a total violation of the law according to the Illinois department of revenue according to our investigation! He is a tax cheat!!
In addition please check out the link below as to the criminal activity Mr Clark and his relative knowingly conducted in Florida. Polk county officials in that state seized a home Mr Clark owned that operated as a drug and prostitution ring. He did nothing to assist in curtailing the problem and used the same "I'm a victim rhetoric" that he and his wife are doing at this very moment in time. He doesn't accept personal responsibility for anything.
After our company found all of this out we rid ourselves of him! And for a short period of time he continued to contact us to donate to him but as an organization, we determined if we did donate the several thousands of dollars he was asking for it would have gone directly into his pocket and not to the children he was claiming to represent! That greed is so sad!!
Please read this! It explains his drug and prostitution ring >>>>
http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/02/desmond_clark_doesnt_appreciat.html
I support the difficult work of law enforcement and the racism that police departments are battling within our cities that makes their jobs nearly impossible! I also understand the accusations that school boards encounter with this problem in our society so I felt I needed to speak out on this matter.
I know we will not be silent about the corporate organizations that associate with Mr Clark!
I truly believe Mr and Mrs Clark brought this onto themselves, if racism truly existed for four years as they claim why has it taken this long for them to act on it? Why haven't they filed a lawsuit by now?? Probably because of the things he is hiding? Clark as an ex NFL player has a sence of entitlement and believes because he once played pro football he is above the law!!
Good luck to those who were involved with this miscreant in clearing their names as the Clarks' have dragged or will drag through the mud in the future!
A concerned citizen.... And a lifetime Bears fan!!
A. Ahmed Jr.
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