she said, referring to the family-run Catholic school at the Flea Market. Tim and George Jr. would appeal and reapply, the hope being that the club would open as soon as possible. When Werner broke the news that Jeff's brothers wouldn't write a letter on his behalf, he says Jeff became furious. They recorded the conversation. FROM THE START, Jeff's three brothers and father didn't share his enthusiasm for opening a lavish gaming house. But his dream, which now seemed so close to being a reality, was about to become a nightmare. Jeff signed a deal with his brothers that prohibited him from owning Bay 101 stock until he got all the necessary licenses. She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. First, Jeff tried to have the Bumb & Associates partnership dissolved after accusing his family of trying to force him out without paying him a fair price. Eight months later, the frame of the weapon was found in a Salinas pond near Venzon's home with the barrel and slide missing. Over the years, he had developed working relationships with the city's politicians and bureaucrats. Police reports would suggest she had, "for about a year," been giving "blow jobs" to 19-year-old Matthew Bumb, son of George Bumb Jr. Life of Brian: Initially denied a gaming license by the state, Brian Bumb has since received a provisional license and become a partner in Bay 101 with his brothers, Tim and George. EVERY DAY THE CLUB stayed closed, the Bumbs lost more money. First, Jeff tried to have the Bumb & Associates partnership dissolved after accusing his family of trying to force him out without paying him a fair price. Toward the end of the call, things got heated. And then police remembered the old rumors about a murder plot at the Flea Market, where Venzon had worked as a security guard for more than 15 years. Don't Shoot: George Bumb Sr., the publicity-shy patriarch of the Bumb family and creator of the Flea Market, in a rare photo which appeared in California Today magazine in 1980. Near the end Venzon writes, "They want to bring up the 'murder-for-hire' investigation again. Earlier this year, a month before Venzon was sentenced to 14 years in prison, district attorney investigator Michael Schembri closed out the Venzon case, noting in a court filing, "No new information has been uncovered relating to the murder for hire case [at the Flea Market] which our department investigated several years ago." "And when I visited you at your home I told you that other than God you are the only person I've gotten down on my knees for," Venzon says on page 7. Even though all the lights were out, she told police that she knew it was Matthew "because the moonlight shined into the room through the large windows that faced the ocean." Snow White or Cinderella? Just so everyone got the point, Jeff Bumb announced to the press that he and Brian were divesting from Bay 101, and records show he eventually sold his shares for $1.4 million. Behind the scenes, the Bumbs suspected their potential gambling competitors and a disgruntled former Flea Market employee of giving investigators unsubstantiated material to use against them. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." So Jeff, Brian and the remaining non-family partners backed out of Bay 101, handing everything over to Tim and George Jr. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. Christopher Gardner A blue knit polo shirt covers his stocky 52-year-old frame. Meanwhile, Jeff and his lawyers spent 15 months trying get his father to appear at a deposition. I'm on the hook for $15 million. Soon after his confession, the word started spreading in the family about what happened. And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. Jeff Bumb says he believes that state and local investigators at the time of Bay 101's limbo were investigating a rumor that Jeff had tried to get someone killed, a charge Jeff denies. He started telling people around the office that he wanted out of the family business. When he was jailed, the desperate cop wrote a 15-page handwritten letter in pencil to George Bumb in May 1997 asking the Flea Market owner to bail him out. "My wife broke the code," he says, "and I supported her." She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. AN ATTORNEY involved likened the whole contentious affair to a divorce. Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. ON AUG. 11, 1995, Jeff sat in his Flea Market office scribbling on a piece of paper, plotting his grand return to his peach palace. Log In or Sign Up Anne-Marie Bumb See Photos Anne Marie Bumba Bumba See Photos Anne Marie Francine Bumba See Photos Ana Bumb See Photos Anne Marie Bumbalo See Photos Ana Bumb See Photos Ana Bumb See Photos Jeff Bumb later explained to the press that they didn't know partnerships were required to file such reports, and they paid the state a $1,250 fine. George Bumb Sr., an avid card player, held a regular weekly family poker game at his home. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. Jeff signed a deal with his brothers that prohibited him from owning Bay 101 stock until he got all the necessary licenses. Jeff Bumb later explained to the press that they didn't know partnerships were required to file such reports, and they paid the state a $1,250 fine. But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. He can't ignore it. Of the four brothers, Tim and George had faced the least resistance from state gaming officials. But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. And then, just when it seemed as though family relations couldn't get any worse, they did. It did the unthinkable: Tim and George Jr. worried that pressuring state and city officials to deal Jeff back in at Bay 101 would backfire and authorities would close down the card room. Ultimately, Jeff says with resignation, he hopes I find the truth, "not my truth, not their truth, just the truth." ALL TOGETHER, the intrafamily litigation has spanned nearly three years. Tim and George, under pressure from then Police Chief Lou Cobarruviaz, had already signed an agreement a year earlier that prohibited Brian, Jeff and their father from having anything to do with the card room. In February 1994, nearly one year after the San Jose City Council gave Bay 101 its blessing, the state denied the Bumbs and their partners' gaming license application. Tim and George Jr. worried that pressuring state and city officials to deal Jeff back in at Bay 101 would backfire and authorities would close down the card room. Along the way, Jeff raised the ante, hiring Frank Ubhaus, a lawyer who represented Garden City card club, Bay 101's crosstown rival. Some improprieties did turn up: Bumb & Associates, a partnership including the four brothers and their father, had failed to file required reports disclosing more than $100,000 in political contributions made between 1989 and 1992. A nurse was present to monitor his condition. But there was no gambling done that night. It's like we had no life except for the family." "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" Jeff's daughter interrupted Matthew and said, "And I didn't know better. ALL TOGETHER, the intrafamily litigation has spanned nearly three years. "I mean," Jeff later said at a deposition, "it was a time of hurt and heartache for us--and not my father, not my mother, not my brother George, not my brother Tim, not Brian could care less." He also pulled off an armed robbery of the Aloha Roller Palace. The Bumbs had a plenty of experience with a cash business through the Flea Market, which they've run for almost 40 years. Tim now runs Bay 101, which he says is no easy task. Christopher Gardner In fact, Tim and George had to agree not to collaborate with other Bumbs on any new business venture. (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" Still Standing: Jeff Bumb, Bay 101's ostracized founder, boasts that despite various local, state and federal investigations over the years he has emerged squeaky clean. (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" George Bumb Sr.'s loan-repayment demands came in July 1996, just as his oldest son and his wife were about to move to Los Gatos and break away from the family and its eastside enclave. Tim now runs Bay 101, which he says is no easy task. Police reports would suggest she had, "for about a year," been giving "blow jobs" to 19-year-old Matthew Bumb, son of George Bumb Jr. The two, she said, never talked about what was going on while it was happening. she said, referring to the family-run Catholic school at the Flea Market. When Jeff and Brian were denied licenses for Bay 101, Tim (above) and brother George Jr. jumped in. Whenever trouble arose at the Flea Market with city code or building inspectors, the Bumbs sent Jeff to settle things. Dealers stood at the tables, ready to deal the cards. He wanted to relocate and expand Sutter's Place in Alviso from a five-table card room to a 40-table one, matching the size of Northern California's largest card room, Garden City in San Jose. And for nearly a month, they did. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." Some improprieties did turn up: Bumb & Associates, a partnership including the four brothers and their father, had failed to file required reports disclosing more than $100,000 in political contributions made between 1989 and 1992. Jeff entertained offers to buy the club, the highest bid, he recalls, coming in at $40 million. You know the school we went to?" Privacy hasn't been so easy to come by for the Bumbs in the '90s, since they got involved in Bay 101. The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. AN ATTORNEY involved likened the whole contentious affair to a divorce. "They didn't teach anything about this. Popularly known as the Lawyer of United States of America. The court saga evolved into a battle of wills between a father--a man who wouldn't even let the Vatican tell him what to do--and his oldest son, determined to break free from the old man's grasp. Or at least he thought he didn't. Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" Story by Matthew Niksa, Silicon Valley Business Journal, October 9 2020 Read More North SJ's Market Park could have thousands of homes, millions of square feet of commercial space in its next phase. Finally, in July 1994, the state cleared Tim and George and gave them a conditional OK to let the games begin. During his long tenure at the Flea Market, Venzon apparently developed a close relationship with George Bumb Sr. Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. According to Werner, molestation of his daughter became part of a laundry list of damning things Jeff threatened to disclose if his buy-out demands weren't met. A FEW DAYS AFTER returning from his son's Oct. 13, 1995, military graduation in San Diego, Jeff and his wife, Elizabeth, got some appalling news: Their 14-year-old daughter had been involved in a sexual relationship with an older male cousin. The card club has done more than bring unwanted public scrutiny to this insular group. He demanded $10 million from his brothers to compensate him for violating the purported secret Bay 101 deal. According to Jeff, there was tremendous pressure from his father and others in the family to keep the incest a secret. "I'm a big boy." At the time, Jeff was in the midst of negotiating an arrangement to be bought out of the family businesses. "They didn't teach anything about this. "My issue with [George Bumb Sr.]," Jeff Bumb complains about his father, "was his control of where you lived, what kind of house you bought, where your children went to school, who your friends are, whether your children went to college, who they would marry, what kind of wedding they would have." But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. Some improprieties did turn up: Bumb & Associates, a partnership including the four brothers and their father, had failed to file required reports disclosing more than $100,000 in political contributions made between 1989 and 1992. He babysat the construction site every day for almost five months. When Jeff and Brian were denied licenses for Bay 101, Tim (above) and brother George Jr. jumped in. Meanwhile, Jeff and his lawyers spent 15 months trying get his father to appear at a deposition. She told police about at least seven other sexual encounters she had with her cousin after that. Even though all the lights were out, she told police that she knew it was Matthew "because the moonlight shined into the room through the large windows that faced the ocean." "I mean," Jeff later said at a deposition, "it was a time of hurt and heartache for us--and not my father, not my mother, not my brother George, not my brother Tim, not Brian could care less." Their pun-afflicted surname adds to the hillbilly mystique. Jeff tells the story differently: "Matthew was my godson. He started telling people around the office that he wanted out of the family business. "My issue with [George Bumb Sr.]," Jeff Bumb complains about his father, "was his control of where you lived, what kind of house you bought, where your children went to school, who your friends are, whether your children went to college, who they would marry, what kind of wedding they would have." When the Vatican eliminated Latin from the Catholic mass in the '60s, George Bumb Sr. responded by building his own chapel, named for the rebellious St. Athanasius, at the base of Mt. A FEW DAYS AFTER returning from his son's Oct. 13, 1995, military graduation in San Diego, Jeff and his wife, Elizabeth, got some appalling news: Their 14-year-old daughter had been involved in a sexual relationship with an older male cousin. In response to Jeff's legal attacks, George Bumb Sr. and Bumb & Associates filed two separate suits of their own to collect nearly $1 million in loans and interest they claimed Jeff never paid. Bumb family attorney Ron Werner suggested that Jeff and his family had a hidden motive for waiting nearly a month to report the incident to police. The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. "They didn't teach anything about this. He followed that with suits alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and misrepresentation. Christopher Gardner For all his quirks and controlling behavior, the old man is regarded as a benefactor by most family members and some Flea Market employees who know their boss to be capable of great generosity. Most of George Bumb Sr.'s five dozen grandchildren have grown up in the 95127 ZIP code and have attended the family-run K-12 Catholic school, St. Thomas More, located on Flea Market grounds since 1978. It wasn't the idea of gambling. A FEW DAYS AFTER returning from his son's Oct. 13, 1995, military graduation in San Diego, Jeff and his wife, Elizabeth, got some appalling news: Their 14-year-old daughter had been involved in a sexual relationship with an older male cousin. But Jeff and his family started hearing that instead of showing concern and support for his daughter, George Bumb Sr. and others in the family were blaming his freshman daughter for the incident and not her adult-age cousin. And then, just when it seemed as though family relations couldn't get any worse, they did. He followed that with suits alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and misrepresentation. Behind the scenes, the Bumbs suspected their potential gambling competitors and a disgruntled former Flea Market employee of giving investigators unsubstantiated material to use against them. Tim Bumb says writing a letter on Jeff's behalf would have violated the agreement with the police chief and put the club in jeopardy. The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. Of the four brothers, Tim and George had faced the least resistance from state gaming officials. It did the unthinkable: Jeff Bumb remembers that when he was going to school at Bellarmine in the '60s, the other kids would call him things like "Bumbsy" or "Bumbo." One of George Bumb Sr.'s granddaughters explained to police that her family was very old-fashioned: "The woman gets the short end of the deal; she is a whore. Jeff entertained offers to buy the club, the highest bid, he recalls, coming in at $40 million. His crimes included taking valuables from the bereaved family members of dead crime victims while pretending to console them. Ultimately, the charges against the older Bumb were reduced to a misdemeanor. On Nov. 8, 1995, attorney Albin Danell, Elizabeth's brother-in-law, contacted the police, apparently after consulting with Elizabeth. Well, guess what? Tim Bumb says writing a letter on Jeff's behalf would have violated the agreement with the police chief and put the club in jeopardy. attorney Frank Ubhaus asked the Bumb patriarch. Jeff Bumb says he believes that state and local investigators at the time of Bay 101's limbo were investigating a rumor that Jeff had tried to get someone killed, a charge Jeff denies. And Brian, the handsome and gregarious youngest brother, was in charge of day-to-day operations at the Flea Market. Still Standing: Jeff Bumb, Bay 101's ostracized founder, boasts that despite various local, state and federal investigations over the years he has emerged squeaky clean. Jeff tells the story differently: "Matthew was my godson. You think this didn't break my heart?" Even though all the lights were out, she told police that she knew it was Matthew "because the moonlight shined into the room through the large windows that faced the ocean." But Jeff says that privately he and his brothers had an oral agreement--which Tim Bumb now corroborates--that would one day let him repurchase his shares and become a partner in Bay 101 again. In a fit, he took the paper he was writing on, crumpled it up and threw it out the office door. Soon after his confession, the word started spreading in the family about what happened. "And when I visited you at your home I told you that other than God you are the only person I've gotten down on my knees for," Venzon says on page 7. It wasn't the money, either. "What am I going to say to the vice president?" He was also the kind of guy, police records reveal, who told his mother about the incidents "because he felt guilty." In fact, Tim and George had to agree not to collaborate with other Bumbs on any new business venture. AN ATTORNEY involved likened the whole contentious affair to a divorce. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I." So Jeff, Brian and the remaining non-family partners backed out of Bay 101, handing everything over to Tim and George Jr. Eight days after the molestation incident was reported to police--and one day after Jeff Bumb formally refused his father's $6.9 million buyout offer--George Bumb Sr. sent Jeff a curt typewritten memo informing Jeff that he was terminated effective immediately and had to clean out his desk before 5pm. Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" Tim and George Jr. would appeal and reapply, the hope being that the club would open as soon as possible. EVERY DAY THE CLUB stayed closed, the Bumbs lost more money. You know the school we went to?" Christopher Gardner Christopher Gardner The gambling palace Jeff Bumb--the oldest son who is often described as the most entrepreneurial of the four brothers--had in mind was going to take a lot of effort and political skill. They recorded the conversation. There were flowers everywhere. Finally, in July 1994, the state cleared Tim and George and gave them a conditional OK to let the games begin. Matthew is the kind of guy a relative described to police as "polite," the guy parents wanted their daughters to date. When Jeff and Brian were denied licenses for Bay 101, Tim (above) and brother George Jr. jumped in. "I mean," Jeff later said at a deposition, "it was a time of hurt and heartache for us--and not my father, not my mother, not my brother George, not my brother Tim, not Brian could care less." According to Werner, molestation of his daughter became part of a laundry list of damning things Jeff threatened to disclose if his buy-out demands weren't met. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I." In fact, on the day he was arrested, records show that Venzon pawned a 14-karat-gold diamond cluster ring and a ladies' gold tennis bracelet for a total of $298 at American Precious Metals, a jewelry store at the Flea Market run by Joseph Bumb. At the time, Jeff was in the midst of negotiating an arrangement to be bought out of the family businesses. The teenagers had been drinking booze earlier in the night. Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." One of George Bumb Sr.'s granddaughters explained to police that her family was very old-fashioned: "The woman gets the short end of the deal; she is a whore. "We made it very clear to Jeff and everybody else concerned," Tim says, "that I'm not going to stick my neck on the line here. The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. OK--we didn't get out--OK? After learning of the incident, Jeff and wife Elizabeth did not report the matter to police immediately. When Jeff and Brian were denied licenses for Bay 101, Tim (above) and brother George Jr. jumped in. Preventive Medicine: George Bumb Jr. is a co-owner of Bay 101, where a snakebite kit is kept on-hand as a family joke. Unlike other partners, neither Jeff nor Brian had buyback provisions in their written agreements, an intentional omission meant to appease state gaming officials who wanted them out of the picture. Bryant, who acts as emissary for the family and its patriarch, thinks the Bumbs are a misunderstood bunch. Whenever trouble arose at the Flea Market with city code or building inspectors, the Bumbs sent Jeff to settle things. So Jeff, Brian and the remaining non-family partners backed out of Bay 101, handing everything over to Tim and George Jr. The gambling palace Jeff Bumb--the oldest son who is often described as the most entrepreneurial of the four brothers--had in mind was going to take a lot of effort and political skill. In a statement to police, Jeff's daughter recounted how the first incident had happened the year before on the Fourth of July at a family beach house near Santa Cruz when the older boy allegedly started fondling her while she was asleep on the living room couch. After learning of the incident, Jeff and wife Elizabeth did not report the matter to police immediately.
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