The Mystery Lawsuit, “I have the contract right here,” says Peter Sumaruck – Why Pete Sumaruck didn’t sue when his electric power project with the U.S. Army was shelved.

It’s Jan. 28, 2012, and I am interviewing Peter Sumaruck. He is the inventor who creates new and unlimited electric energy without the use of fuel. In 2002, he came to an agreement with two three star generals at Fort Hood, Texas to build a prototype, ready for manufacture of 500 mobile electric generators units to power the ground war in Iraq. The new electric units would make the current diesel power units obsolete.

Pete Sumaruck and his mobile power unit built to withstand the rigors of combat

 Additionally, the plan was also to produce slave generators operating off the mobile units, to power the entire Green Zone in Baghdad – that would have eliminated power outages for good.

The project was shelved in early 2004, thus forcing the Army to continue using diesel mobile generators as “bombs on wheels” http://blog.zeroamptech.com/fuel-war-of-2010-is-unnecessary from flaming diesel, and the infamous daily power outages in Iraq – lights out. http://blog.zeroamptech.com/military-chooses-green-energy-lights We have talked before about the lives that could have saved by using electric power. Today we discuss the bond of two old friends…a bond broken by the lust for money.

“I always considered David (Dickson) a good friend,” says Pete. He pauses, thinking back, “We’ve known each other since junior high and high school.”… “He wasn’t a wild kid, just a nice guy.”   dickson@therexasfirm.com  David Dickson grew up in Waco, and was a graduate of Baylor University Law School.

David Dickson, Attorney at Law

I asked Pete, “You told me several people have asked you why you didn’t sue when your project with the Army was shelved…people want to know.”

“Yes, some have asked me, so I thought I would talk about it now .”

“Pete, if you would give us some idea of the timeline of the turn of events. You had just about completed the prototype, right.”

“That’s true, it shouldn’t have taken that long to complete…if my supplies had come in faster; they’re relatively simple components. I told them what I needed; they kept saying the order was placed. Then I went to procurement myself. They said nothing had been ordered, meanwhile the government had been paying me $6,500.00 a month – taxes taken out, I got $4000.00 – but I wasn’t doing this just to sit around; I wanted to get it done and collect my $27 million for my technology.

“When I told the chief engineer at III Corp (at Fort Hood) that the amount was $27 million, he was astounded, ‘You’re giving it away, that’s not enough,’ he said. I told him I knew that, but it was fair, and it was the right thing to do.’”

Pete wanted his country to have his tech. He felt assured the technology would not go toward weapons. Pete has seen too much blood in war – he has seen enough of that.

“The girl told me, ‘nobody has asked me to order components for you Pete, I would be happy to do that, it’s not a problem.’ The stuff came right away.’”

“I guess that was a bad sign from the beginning,” I said. We both sort of laughed.

“Those two 3 star generals that came in to Fort Hood to see my system; they were sold and their word was law, better than law. Fort Hood had given me work space at McDowell Research in Waco, Tom (Tom Hawkes) and Earl (Earl Martin) were the owners; I’ve told you about them before. But with the components, I had been told it had to go through Congress, the reason for the delay. I accepted that.”

Me to Pete, “So, You’re ready to go…”

“Yes, the unit was ready for time trials. The generator unit was beautiful [Army beautiful], you know from the pictures, I designed it so if there was a roadside bomb or any damage, a crew of two could do replace and repair in minutes…like a racecar pit stop.”

“When was it that the breakins happened,” I asked.

“About a month before the project was cancelled,” Pete told me , “It happened over a weekend; I came back and there had been 149 attempts to access the computer. I had set up a security code so that any attempt to enter would register. ‘Start’ and ’Fail’ – 149 failed attempts (that weekend).

“I had a meeting with Earl and Tom; Earl said, ‘Nobody has been in here (this weekend).”

“Oh yeah, just Earl and Tom, poking around on the hard drive,” I had to say it.

Things seemed safe for a month. Then a violent breakin took place. Most of the prototype was gone, disappeared and what was left was destroyed. But fortunately, Pete had included in his security system, protection that would cause a meltdown – no one would be able to steal his technology. He has a similar self-destruct system in his power systems today.

only trailer remaining after power unit destruction

“And what about the two Texas politicians involved in the destruction,” I asked.

“Next day, I was at both offices of those two politicians involved in the project shutdown.” Kip Averitt, Republican Texas State Senator, and Chet Edwards, U.S. Texas Congressman. “Their staff said that funding was going to nuclear power instead of my project…their office people said they weren’t in to speak to me. I said, ‘I see their cars in the parking lot; I know they’re here.’ Lies, just lies.”

“Tell me how David Dickson come into this,” I asked.

“I had a meeting with Tom and Earl…David (Pete’s attorney) was sitting right next to me – supposed to me my legal protection. Tom told me the plug was pulled on the project. David just sat there, never said a word through the entire thing.

“I told them, ‘what do you mean; you don’t have authority to shelve this project; this doesn’t belong to you; it’s my project. They said something about their place, my project wasn’t there any more.”

“But what about David, You got him?” I wanted to know.

Pete to me, “He and I were going out to the parking lot, I asked him, ‘what are you going to do about this,’ – I’m furious… He said, ‘I’m going to sue the fuck out of them.’ We talked about his fee. He told me not to worry about paying him, he’d get it out of the suit. I said, ‘I’ll give you 80% of the $27 million, just sue the fuck out of them.’ He told me, ‘I can’t take more than 33%.’ ‘OK, you get 33%, but you sue them.’ He agreed and I have the contract.”

“And then…” I asked. ‘What happened.’”

“I couldn’t reach him; he wouldn’t return my phone calls… weeks, a couple months. First it was ‘I have my girls working on filing it…and then his ‘girls told me not to call any more, not to keep calling, not to harass Mr. Dickson.”

I said, “Somewhere there was $27 million floating around. It was money for your technology, but you didn’t get any of it. The government agree to pay the money in the beginning; someone probably got that money.”

Who paid off whom…somebody paid Tom and Earle. Soon after the project shutdown, they started spending a lot of money even before they sold the company six months later to UltraLite Batteries.  And paying off David Dickson – Pete paid David $6,500.00 in 2009 when he came into some money even thought he only owed him $5,000.00 (though David had told Pete not to bother about it) … Pete paid more than was necessary, and got nothing for it.

It’s likely David might jump at a sure thing from Tom and Earl or from the government, rather than wait to go to trial… and might not get what he wanted – a sure thing instead of a risk – how many millions was that.

“I could say that David owes me $27 million – he signed a contract to sue Tom and Earl; it would have been an easy win,” says Pete. “David turned out to be a crocked son-of-a-bitch. He even acts guilty.  At reunions, he avoids me, sees me and runs the other way – he hides.”

The lure of money – Pete told me, “You know, I can make plenty of money. I just want to know why my old friend would screw me; all he has to do is tell me why.”

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Over a 10 day period, I offered Mr. Dickson numerous opportunities to share his side of the story but he declined comment. 

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