https://robinhensel.blogspot.com/2019/04/marguerite-cofell-eye-popping-review-mn.html
https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/opinion/letters_to_editor/cofell-cost-flensburg-thousands-of-dollars/article_61135c82-6db8-11e9-bff2-0f2e7786d4f9.html
https://www.brainerddispatch.com/opinion/letters/4615083-reader-opinion-what-do-about-cofell
I have been hearing that "some" local folks are feeling sorry for Margurite. That she was just doing good with the money she was stealing from St. Francis Credit Union, before she caused it'$ collapse. They are the ones who have benefitted from her theft. Or know someone that has.
Well that sounds just like Morrison County. The booze capitol of Minnesota. This is the real epidemic. With a mushroom cloud of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome infected kids/adults, to prove it. The facial characteristics and behaviors are easy to spot.
This county exemplifies "the family that drinks together, stays together." Catholicism teaches by example. You know....polka masses and wine at communion(daily for priests). It'$ no surprise that many in this county of drunks are shielding her. We live in a culture of corruption where the public condones, accepts, and turns a blind eye to all of it.
I believe that folks who defend her are "benefactors" of her thievery. Or perhaps they are so self righteous that the rules don't apply to them and they rationalize that any crime like this is understandable.
Margurite is the furthest thing from a "Robinhood" as one can get. She is charged with stealing 2 and a half MILLION dollars for personal gain and has admitted to fraud. Robinhood stole from the rich and gave it ALL to the poor. That'$ NOT Margurite.
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Am I the only one that suspects drugs, may play a part in this embezzlement scheme?
I sure hope the FBI has investigated this possibility.
I make no claim other than to suggest there are many arrows pointing in that direction. Think about it. Meth and other drug user/dealers are habitual liars, thieves and criminals. They usually fit a mold for physical characteristics.....skinny, withered up skin, and a skuzzy appearance of "life lived in a bar." Just plain tough looking. Because they are.
In my generation these types were called "hoods" or "hoodlums."
Today's toughest are psychopaths, sociopaths, or worse.
Some names in the title of this post are Margurite's Facebook friends, others MAY have been recipients of credit union loans, or had relatives that were. These are potential realities. Dillon Wuellner, son of Tim Witucki and Dina Wuellner, got a home mortgage from St. Francis Credit Union and went through mortage foreclosure within the last year. ( It was published in the MCRecord for the whole world to see)
St. Francis credit union used US Bank for their flow through and ran their checks through that bank for years. Lorna Lange was head of the US bank Little Falls downtown branch, until about 2006, I believe, when she ran for Russ Nygren's seat as the Morrison County Auditor. At some point after she lost that election she began working for Pine Country Bank and I believe, brought the St. Francis account with her. So there should be bank records connected to all or most of St. Francis Credit Unions transactions. Lorna Lange is Margurites sister in law.
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Deb Gruber, was formerly the Morrison County treasurer. Then after Tim Houle left his position of Morrison County Administrator, (to become Crow Wing County Administrator), Deb Gruber was appointed by the county commissioners(upon her recommendation) to take Houle's place. Then the county commissioners eliminated the elected position of treasurer. Taking away the checks and balances for fiduciary accountability.
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It's really interesting to see who has dropped off Margurite's Facebook friends list over the years. I've been paying attention. I think I know why.
Here are some points of interest:
Ken Merten(a high school buddy, Little Falls class of 1975, of Margurite's), is currently a Flensburg council member.
and Careena Jacobs, may have managed the Flensburg Muni or worked there when it was losing money from 2014-2017.
Ken Merten is a current city councilor from 2016-2020
LuAnn Morrow(city councilor)
was Margurite's employer at LuAnn's company Lucky Lucy painting. There's a conflict of interest if ever there was one.
Cary Blechinger Gorka was the manager at the former Flensburg Muni since 2017 when the city sold it to Herbie's bar of Sobieski. (According to this newspiece interview below.......
https://wjon.com/follow-up-herbies-bar-breathes-new-life-after-devastating-fire/
A few years ago, Cary sent me a hate letter in the US postal mail, with all kinds of libelous statements in it.
In the article from yesterday's 4-14-19 McRecord below, Kathy Lange of CHI says all 3 sober houses in Little Falls, Mn have now closed...
https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/faith-not-fear-shines-light-on-homelessness-in-morrison-county/article_3d19e6ae-5d8f-11e9-8a48-730e0dc0e210.html
Now what's interesting about this is, a few years back I was contacted by an anonymous source to alert me that a womans sober house (Ground Zero)on 2nd St. NE in Little Falls had been cleaned out overnight, the house emptied and Margurite had been the financial manager at that business.
I do not know if it is the same as this place but the addresses matched what I was told.....(not the 4th Street NE address below.) It was in the 600 block of 2nd St. NE. Mary Olson, the owner, died within the last few years.
There was supposedly another men's sober house directly across the street from the stone Episcopal church on 4th St. NE. Melissa Stracks name was mentioned by the anonymous informant, for the house on 2nd St.NE 600 block
Melissa has been in prison TWICE, for drug use or dealing and graduated from the Morridon County drug court, I believe.
Stay tuned.....there's always more.
