DC - Savvas Savopoulos, family & Veralicia Figueroa murdered; Daron Wint Arrested #17

[LinasK]

There seems to be more name-calling and clinical diagnosis of JW, than DW, IMO. It also appears that his employment and firing with AB, has been dissected, analyzed, and rehashed...repeatedly. What about the employment, or lack thereof, of DW? Do we know why he lost his job at AIW? IMO, that might be more relevant.

Maybe because Daron Wint is a known quantity. A violent man with a temper who holds grudges and we know what his role in the murders was. Wallace is unclear as to his level of involvement, other than being a known liar- which doesn't appeal to many people. Liars usually have something to hide and sneakiness is usually viewed with more hostility than someone who doesn't hide what they really are, even if it's violent.
FWIW, I do think Wint targeted this family because he was a disgruntled former employee.

 

[al66pine]

It could be that this was JW's big idea/dream and he talked his supervisors into letting him run with it. I honestly can't imagine giant legal repercussions for using high school logos ( that seems more like cease and desist stuff, but maybe private schools get litigious), but if the venture ended up being a bust moneywise or PR-wise, and if it did end up putting management in a bad position, they might have lost faith in JW as their main dude. Trying to start a high school racing competition doesn't seem malicious in any way--maybe naive, if he didn't get the schools onboard. I just have a feeling the bigger issue is that he billed himself to be more qualified than he was for the ad/comm role. If this high school thing didn't pan out, it might have been the icing on the cake.

^ bbm1. "a bust moneywise or PR-wise"
Never occurred to me, reminds that many posters bring such insight & experience to forum. kammiemc, TYVM.

I was thinking about injuries to racers, (maybe like rkf post 328? "You should search the Maryland court records for their employees. Start with the event and group coordinator. I guarantee you will never take your kids there again.") Maybe some lawsuits based on something else?

^ bbm2. "schools onboard"
Getting schools onboard may have required a diff/higher skill set than JW's. Also a long timeframe for 'making the sale' on a conceptual basis, plus time to get i's dotted & t's crossed, i.e., written approval at superintendent or board level. IDK when Autobahn announced tryouts, but they were scheduled for ~Jan 8-10; first race was Jan 22, ~ 2 weeks later. Not much lead time.

In giving this 'league' approval to use school name, i.e., 'the XYZ H/S karting team' a school is, in a way, endorsing a commercial facility & filling its pipeline w buyer/users. All races were held at Autobahn, IIUC, never at another commercial track, never at a school facility. Are any officially-approved school sports played at commercial facilities and if so, at only one business and not rotated among several?

JM2cts, could be all wrong.

 

[AmazonianAbroad]

^ bbm1. "a bust moneywise or PR-wise"
Never occurred to me, reminds that many posters bring such insight & experience to forum. kammiemc, TYVM.

I was thinking about injuries to racers, (maybe like rkf post 328? "You should search the Maryland court records for their employees. Start with the event and group coordinator. I guarantee you will never take your kids there again.") Maybe some lawsuits based on something else?

^ bbm2. "schools onboard"
Getting schools onboard may have required a diff/higher skill set than JW's. Also a long timeframe for 'making the sale' on a conceptual basis, plus time to get i's dotted & t's crossed, i.e., written approval at superintendent or board level. IDK when Autobahn announced tryouts, but they were scheduled for ~Jan 8-10; first race was Jan 22, ~ 2 weeks later. Not much lead time.

In giving this 'league' approval to use school name, i.e., 'the XYZ H/S karting team' a school is, in a way, endorsing a commercial facility & filling its pipeline w buyer/users. All races were held at Autobahn, IIUC, never at another commercial track, never at a school facility. Are any officially-approved school sports played at commercial facilities and if so, at only one business and not rotated among several?

JM2cts, could be all wrong.

I had three types of sports, so feel like I ran the gamut of experience. There was my regular school team sport. There was also my AAU team sport; that was never school affiliated, though practice and events were at times held at schools. Finally, I was on school ski club. Ski Club's the closest example I can think of that even comes close to this school karting thing. Ski club wasn't competitive, but rather entirely recreational. We gathered weekly after school, on grounds, and went to the nearest facility on a school bus.

I have never heard of a school sport like the "AB Varsity League ^" I feel like I'm supposed to type (TM) here.

 

[al66pine]

I had three types of sports, so feel like I ran the gamut of experience. There was my regular school team sport. There was also my AAU team sport; that was never school affiliated, though practice and events were at times held at schools. Finally, I was on school ski club. Ski Club's the closest example I can think of that even comes close to this school karting thing. Ski club wasn't competitive, but rather entirely recreational. We gathered weekly after school, on grounds, and went to the nearest facility on a school bus.

I have never heard of a school sport like the "AB Varsity League ^" I feel like I'm supposed to type (TM) here.

Short response:
Autobahn was using schools' names for its commercial benefit, without schools' authorizations, as all league races were held at fee-collecting Autobahn, IIUC, not at any schools, not at competitor tracks.
Trademark, servicemark, and any similar intellectual property issues are irrelevant here.
If schools questioned Autobahn about use of name, that may have been a factor in JW's departure from Autobahn. moo, jmo, imo.
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Loooooong response (now w extra hair-splitting, LOL):
Somebody (JW and/or other Autobahn employee?) set up a website http://www.mdvarsitykarting.com/ discussing "...the Maryland High School Varsity Karting Championship. The only racing series exclusively for Students to represent their High School in the first ever Varsity Karting State Championship!" This website did not reference "Autobahn" a commercial track, perhaps trying to imply that teams are school sponsored? Autobahn website does not refer to MD High School Varsity Karting League (not that I found).

My understanding is that, with 'Varsity" in the name, some ppl believed these teams were school sponsored/sanctioned and were subject to auth of Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association MPSSAA http://www.mpssaa.org/ whose membership is "...made up of public high schools ...
One goal is to "promote and direct public high school interscholastic activities .... 199 public high schools,...in 24 sports.
The MPSSAA derives its authority from the Maryland State Department of Education and the 24 local school systems." Note: MPSSAA membership does not include private schools, like karting league's membership. bbm
On mpssaa.org, I did not see indications "Varsity" as having trade-mark, service-mark protection.
Could have missed it, but I don't see any likely intellectual property protection violation, but IANAL.
Have some ppl confused IP topic w appropriation of name of another for business purposes, like a cosmetic company claiming an actress uses it skincare products, without actress authorizing the claim?

The karting site makes many stmts like these:
- "Student will represent their Schools, including team uniforms, team practices, and team awards." - "Students ... represent their schools on the race track.... we will crown the Maryland High School Varsity Karting State Champion."
- "... meet the racers that represent your school."

Common sense:
Can a private company hold tryouts for teams and select racers - then lawfully claim the racers represent a school - rather than allowing a school to decide on composition of team?
Autobahn did. "If you are a current Maryland High School student and would like to join the league, we are holding open Try Outs for on January 6th and 7th, from 4pm to 10pm each day. All students will be assessed on skill, attitude and enthusiasm."

When h/s racer is injured at league event, where do parents place blame (despite venue waivers)? At feet of school, which was aware of its name being used in promoting league, but which did no due diligence about the business, its racing casualty history, and lawsuits, maybe sexual harassment, etc. <---hypothetical, purely a theoretical possibility.

The league appears to be an Autobahn marketing program using schools' names, implying schools had officially approved it, imo, moo, jmo. May or may not have relevance to JW's departure.

JM2cts, could be all wrong.

 

[BellaVita]

Again, his craft isn't "media relations", it's racing. He wasn't writing a thesis.....he was blogging. Think of Mike Tyson. The guy can't put two words together......but he's a "boxer", not a public speaker.


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http://www.capitalgazette.com/cg2-arc-140321gn-connections--autobahn-20140329-story.html

"I told him I wanted him to be my media specialist," Harris said. (Harris is GM at Autobahn)

IDK. He WAS hired as Competition Director AND Media Specialist. Maybe Autobahn standards aren't very high, but I'd expect a Media Specialist to have better command of grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. If I'm in the midst of a google search and clicking on random websites, I expect to see proper command of language. If I don't see that on a particular website, I discount every other thing the website is trying to say. If the owner of the website can't be bothered to care about that, I wonder what else they might not care about.

 

[BellaVita]

His whole life just seems like a wasted opportunity. Like, he could have been a real success were it not for some key character flaws. Unfortunately -- you can't control the deck you're dealt. Who knows if anything in his upbringing caused him to feel so incredibly insecure...or maybe he was just born that way. I feel bad for the guy. Yes, I'm a softie and can feel bad for a pathological liar.

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It's all fun and games until the pathological liar victimizes YOU.

 

[BellaVita]

I read another comment earlier describing him as narcissistic and a liar.

It could have described three quarters of our politicians, CEOs and startup company founders. IMO.


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Just because three quarters might be narcissistic liars doesn't make it right. The bad behavior of others doesn't justify bad behavior.

 

[Skigirl]

All that follows is my personal opinion. I cannot understand how Jordan Wallace is such a hated suspect in this forum. For the life of me I don't see, understand, or connect the dots that are being discussed here. Honestly, we are now drawing a clinical diagnosis to a young man we've never even heard speak and have opinions based on a poorly written blog, a "statement" given to law enforcement that LE STATED WAS A LIE. Who knows the motivation behind LE for saying that.....doesn't make it true, doesn't make him a "liar". It means they were fishing and came up empty.

No ones life is wasted at 28. No ones life is wasted ever.


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Hate is a strong word. I think a lot of people are very suspicious of him and see behaviors that would support their suspicion.

I have heard him speak in the many videos that he posted online when he was (I guess) self-producing a reality show about his racing. Those links are buried back in previous threads.

In my book the definition of liar is someone who lies. Why would LE lie about his lying?


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[BondGirl]

^ bbm1. "a bust moneywise or PR-wise"
Never occurred to me, reminds that many posters bring such insight & experience to forum. kammiemc, TYVM.

I was thinking about injuries to racers, (maybe like rkf post 328? "You should search the Maryland court records for their employees. Start with the event and group coordinator. I guarantee you will never take your kids there again.") Maybe some lawsuits based on something else?

^ bbm2. "schools onboard"
Getting schools onboard may have required a diff/higher skill set than JW's. Also a long timeframe for 'making the sale' on a conceptual basis, plus time to get i's dotted & t's crossed, i.e., written approval at superintendent or board level. IDK when Autobahn announced tryouts, but they were scheduled for ~Jan 8-10; first race was Jan 22, ~ 2 weeks later. Not much lead time.

In giving this 'league' approval to use school name, i.e., 'the XYZ H/S karting team' a school is, in a way, endorsing a commercial facility & filling its pipeline w buyer/users. All races were held at Autobahn, IIUC, never at another commercial track, never at a school facility. Are any officially-approved school sports played at commercial facilities and if so, at only one business and not rotated among several?

JM2cts, could be all wrong.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

 

[Rosejs]

Has there ever been an instance of a POI participating in conversations on WS under a pseudonym (or more)?

 

[BondGirl]

Short response:
Autobahn was using schools' names for its commercial benefit, without schools' authorizations, as all league races were held at fee-collecting Autobahn, IIUC, not at any schools, not at competitor tracks.
Trademark, servicemark, and any similar intellectual property issues are irrelevant here.
If schools questioned Autobahn about use of name, that may have been a factor in JW's departure from Autobahn. moo, jmo, imo.
_________________________________________________________________________
Loooooong response (now w extra hair-splitting, LOL):
Somebody (JW and/or other Autobahn employee?) set up a website http://www.mdvarsitykarting.com/ discussing "...the Maryland High School Varsity Karting Championship. The only racing series exclusively for Students to represent their High School in the first ever Varsity Karting State Championship!" This website did not reference "Autobahn" a commercial track, perhaps trying to imply that teams are school sponsored? Autobahn website does not refer to MD High School Varsity Karting League (not that I found).

My understanding is that, with 'Varsity" in the name, some ppl believed these teams were school sponsored/sanctioned and were subject to auth of Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association MPSSAA http://www.mpssaa.org/ whose membership is "...made up of public high schools ...
One goal is to "promote and direct public high school interscholastic activities .... 199 public high schools,...in 24 sports.
The MPSSAA derives its authority from the Maryland State Department of Education and the 24 local school systems." Note: MPSSAA membership does not include private schools, like karting league's membership. bbm
On mpssaa.org, I did not see indications "Varsity" as having trade-mark, service-mark protection.
Could have missed it, but I don't see any likely intellectual property protection violation, but IANAL.
Have some ppl confused IP topic w appropriation of name of another for business purposes, like a cosmetic company claiming an actress uses it skincare products, without actress authorizing the claim?

The karting site makes many stmts like these:
- "Student will represent their Schools, including team uniforms, team practices, and team awards." - "Students ... represent their schools on the race track.... we will crown the Maryland High School Varsity Karting State Champion."
- "... meet the racers that represent your school."

Common sense:
Can a private company hold tryouts for teams and select racers - then lawfully claim the racers represent a school - rather than allowing a school to decide on composition of team?
Autobahn did. "If you are a current Maryland High School student and would like to join the league, we are holding open Try Outs for on January 6th and 7th, from 4pm to 10pm each day. All students will be assessed on skill, attitude and enthusiasm."

When h/s racer is injured at league event, where do parents place blame (despite venue waivers)? At feet of school, which was aware of its name being used in promoting league, but which did no due diligence about the business, its racing casualty history, and lawsuits, maybe sexual harassment, etc. <---hypothetical, purely a theoretical possibility.

The league appears to be an Autobahn marketing program using schools' names, implying schools had officially approved it, imo, moo, jmo. May or may not have relevance to JW's departure.

JM2cts, could be all wrong.

And since Autobahn isn't mentioned on the site and the site doesn't mention autobahn, this may have been JW's own venture.

 

[BondGirl]

And since Autobahn isn't mentioned on the site and the site doesn't mention autobahn, this may have been JW's own venture.

Do we know if a LLC was set up for this name or who owned the website?

 

[Rosejs]

Do we know if a LLC was set up for this name or who owned the website?

http://who.is/domain-history/mdvarsitykarting.com

 

[BellaVita]

Preparing myself for spears to fly...is it possible that he was "terminated" simply due to budget constraints?

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Doubtful. The Autobahn franchise is expanding into multiple locations. If anything, JW being there from it's inception should have given him a leg up in the retention/promotion department. He told some people he quit because he wasn't getting enough hours. The GM says JW was "let go". Employees there have been instructed not to talk about it. Oddly to me, there is no conciliatory language that is so often heard when an employment relationship ends. I'm talking about statements such as "left to pursue other opportunities" or "amicable parting of ways". It seems that JW had no other employment in the offing and SS was Plan A, B and C.

 

[BellaVita]

And since Autobahn isn't mentioned on the site and the site doesn't mention autobahn, this may have been JW's own venture.

If you google "Maryland Varsity Karting" an Autobahn Instagram page comes up. There are also MSM articles and tons of other cites on the web. JW was "league director". Everything was out in the open with this league. Hope this is ok to post:

http://www.autoracing1.com/hotnews.asp?tid=74176

League Director Jordan Wallace was happy with the first year of the league. In particular, Wallace noted that numerous school administrators were supportive of the endeavor and have already asked how they can help grow the league in 2016 and integrate it with their existing athletic programs.

 

[BondGirl]

http://who.is/domain-history/mdvarsitykarting.com

Interesting. Domain purchased about a month before the program launched. Again, very quickly.

 

[CrimeNeverPays]

There seems to be more name-calling and clinical diagnosis of JW, than DW, IMO. It also appears that his employment and firing with AB, has been dissected, analyzed, and rehashed...repeatedly. What about the employment, or lack thereof, of DW? Do we know why he lost his job at AIW? IMO, that might be more relevant.

That would be because the jury is still out on JW -- DW background is pretty clear, came from Guyana, tried a few things & failed, & spent the rest of his life attacking people, wasting US resources & living his life as a plug

 

[rkf]

Autobahn filled JW's position right after he left, so I don't think it was a budget issue. At least, they weren't cutting positions.

Yes, ¾ of politicians, CEOs and Start ups are probably sociopaths. The inability to empathize combined with intelligence makes for a dynamite path to success in a cut-throat world. JMO

Preparing myself for spears to fly...is it possible that he was "terminated" simply due to budget constraints? IMO for his age, background, and love of racing, he really did try to take AB to another level. He went way beyond what many would do in the same situation while employed at a laser tag business,

He had his own career aspirations and no doubt his love of racing was a passion. But, he still needed to eat. To me it appears it was a fairly new business and the manager/owner may have bought into his infectious love of the sport and dreamt about immediate financial benefits based on his passion.

But, basically AB, is a place for the most part, just a go kart entertainment facility like a laser tag, Chuck E. Cheeses or kids' zone with a few patrons who get bitten by the bug and pursue it at a higher level.

Most companies rely on the bottom line. Although his effort and ideas may have eventually led to a substantial increase in business...few companies have the luxury of waiting for a return. I honestly do not know. Just my humble opinion.

From the sites I viewed before they disappeared, he truly put forth an effort. I was impressed and why I am still sitting on the fence.

I read another comment earlier describing him as narcissistic and a liar.

It could have described three quarters of our politicians, CEOs and startup company founders. IMO.


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[FelicityLemon]

Has there ever been an instance of a POI participating in conversations on WS under a pseudonym (or more)?

As critical as some are - JW would have been outed long before today. :/

:drumroll:

 

[rkf]

I think you are right - he was good enough for the job as far as the person (people) who hired him was/were concerned. I doubt they fired him for his poor writing skill, as I think at the local level, they must not have had anyone who knew better.

I'm responding on my iPad, so I can't provide links, but if you google "Jordan Wallace Autobahn let go" you should be able to find lots of stories in MSM.

I'm sorry you think discussing a person who was recently hired by one of the victims, was integral to the ransom delivery, called/texted numerous times from the crime scene and shared photos of the victims' possessions/trips is nonsense. He may be uninvolved and the victim of terrible coincidences, like having a victim's Mosler registration in his possession when LE searched his car for evidence and telling numerous people the only thing keeping him from reaching the next level in racing was money, right before the home invasion that netted minimum $40,000. But the only way to see if these are all coincidences vs circumstantial evidence is to "investigate" thoroughly. Personally, I'd rather spend time chasing down "facts", even if they end up being totally unrelated, than creating and sharing my opinions based on what I wish was true. It seems to me that this forum has too many examples of people who were wonderful from every outside perspective, but committed unimaginable crimes to ignore. JMO

If they hired him as such and it was good enough for them and I'm assuming it was because the blog is still there.....good enough for me. He clearly "did" fill the requirements. If you know he was "fired".....and not speculation....please post the link. He was employed and "held the requirements" at some point. Someone hired him at some point or we wouldn't even be talking about this., which frankly, is nonsense.


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