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Article: My goodness, hes still doing this stuff: ; Vague jobs proposal in Clay rings familiar to Clendenin man invited to invest
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Months before William Whitteker arrived in Clay County with a
promise to hire 250 people and open a "global communications
center," Whitteker tried unsuccessfully to start a business in
Clendenin.
Whitteker courted potential investors, including William "Billy"
Ore, who said he realized there was something fishy about the
proposed project when Whitteker started talking about "pods."
"It sounded almost like a science-fiction thing," recalled Ore,
who owns Ore's Hardware in downtown Clendenin.
Ore said Whitteker asked him several months ago to invest $10,000
in a company called Panserco Inc., which Whitteker owns. Whitteker
planned to start a business near the Interstate 79 Clendenin exit, ...