original is from the san diego court site-which ha
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original is from the san diego court site-which has disclaimers re this-and I translated the pdf into text for easier readability and compactness etc
just the facts section of the complaint-not the intro and not the causes of action-to come later either when somebody posts the pdf or otherwise-with the exhibits its ca 69 pages total in the complaint
FACTS -as alleged-unaltered except I added paragraph spacing in places to aid reading and included a very small amount of bracketed explanatory material as per convention:
  
 "18. The representations by Defendants [Geo et al] to Plaintiffs [CWRN et al] were made during numerous  
 meetings in 2010, 2011, and 2012, in Nevada, California, USA and Baja California, Mexico, and  
 during numerous telephone conversations and emails while Plaintiffs were in Nevada,  
 California, and Mexico and Defendants were in New York, California and Mexico. 
 19. In or about early in the year 2010, Robert Cotton and Sharon X-caret Vasquez  
 Monroy were introduced to Edward MUl and Jimmy YEE, by Shirley Lee. 
 20. In or about early through mid-2010, Plaintiffs, through their representatives,  
 discussed potentials for MUI and YEE to become joint venture partners in the mine controlled  
 and operated by Plaintiffs, known as "'Mina Guadalupe", in Baja California, Mexico, under a  
 mining royalty agreement held by Plaintiffs with the concession owner, and in an a mining  
 concession being pursued by Plaintiffs known as "El Tepustete" also located in Baja California,  
 Mexico. TMT GLOBAL and JWT TRADING were never mentioned during these discussions.  
 The only corporation identified by MUI and YEE during this period was GEO J.S. TECH  
 GROUP, INC. 
 21. On or about May 7, 2010, defendants agreed to invest the sums of $100,000.00 in  
 exchange for security provided by plaintiffs in the amount of 50 million shares of Cotton &  
 Western Mining Inc ("CWRN") common stock to be held as security, and $150,000.00 in  
 exchange for receipt of an additional 50 million CWRN common shares as security, locked for  
 90 days from receipt. At the time of defendants' investment and delivery of the common shares,  
 50 million shares were publicly trading at a value of approximately $250,000.00 (between .0041  
 and .0058 per share, or a blended rate of approximately .005 per share). In short, the value of  
 the security provided to defendants in exchange for $250,000.00 in investment was  
 approximately $500,000.00 in securities. Plaintiffs were unaware of the existence of JWT  
 TRADING until YEE provided a check drawn on an account in the name of that corporation. 
 22. Further, on or about May 7, 2010, defendants agreed to provide an additional  
 capital contribution of not less than $1,000,000.00 to PAN AM together with the promise to  
 provide specific equipment of undetermined value.  
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 23. A copy of the written agreement between plaintiff, PAN AM, and defendant,  
 GEOTECH, entitled Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and dated May 7, 2010, is attached  
 hereto as Exhibit A and made a part hereof. 
 24. A copy of defendant JWT TRADING CORP's HSBC check # 1020 payable to  
 Pan American Mineral Ventures, LLC, in sum of $100,000.00 and Cotton & Western Mining,  
 Inc stock certificate provided to defendants for 50 million shares of common stock are attached  
 hereto as Exhibit B and made a part hereof. 
 25. As of September 21, 2010, defendants had contributed only the sum of  
 $500,000.00, secured by 100,000,000 shares of CWRN common stock, and plaintiffs had  
 become doubtful about whether defendants possessed the financial viability they claimed. 
 For that reason, PAN AM and GEOTECH entered into a Farm-In Security Agreement dated  
 September 21, 2010, wherein it was agreed that if GEOTECH failed to provide sufficient capital  
 for PAN AM to complete project financing through the first shipment of ore from the Guadalupe  
 mine, GEOTECH would be entitled to only 150% of its cash investment and a rental value for  
 specific equipment for the period the specific equipment was used by PAN AM at the mine site.  
 A copy of the Farm-In Agreement between PAN AM and GEOTECH dated September 21, 2010,  
 is attached as Exhibit C and made a part hereof. 
 26. Shortly after defendant GEOTECH and plaintiff Pan Am executed the Farm-In  
 Agreement, GEOTECH represented that it was financially able to provide financing for the  
 Guadalupe mine operation, and to provide specific equipment for use of mining operations, and  
 requested that the parties enter into a Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) as referenced in the MOU,  
 presenting an agreement drafted by its legal counsel. Plaintiffs, without the assistance of legal  
 counsel, made certain suggested modifications to the draft JVA provided by defendants, the JVA  
 was again modified by defendants' legal counsel, and provided to PAN AM for signature  
 approval. 
 27. On or about September 26, 2010, PAN AM and GEOTECH entered into a Joint  
 Venture Agreement for the Baja Pacific Iron Mineral Mining Project (JVA). A copy of the  
 signed JVA is attache hereto as Exhibit D and made a part hereof.  
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 1 28. GEOTECH's attorney memorialized the agreements between the parties in the JVA  
 2 as follows:  
 3 (A) GEOTECH's duties and commitments were memorialized at paragraphs 2 through 7,  
 4 inclusive, to be:  
 (i) to initially contribute $1,500,000.00 in cash as and for the financial support for the  
 6 business, general mining operations, and non-operational costs, and equipment valued by  
 7 GEOTECH at $500,000.00;  
 8 (ii) to provide an additional capital contribution of up to $4,000,000.00, if required; to  
 9 maintain the continuity of the venture and business mining operations,  
 (iii) to be fully responsible for the sales of finished product to various countries as agreed  
 11 upon by the parties,  
 12 (iv) to be solely responsible for the management of all Documentary Letters of Credit  
 13 (DLC) and banking transactions for the venture as related to sales and disbursement of cash  
 14 settlements,  
 (v) to produce and provide full access and copies to PAN AM of all banking statements,  
 16 transactions, accounting records, and any/all relevant financial documents pertaining to the Joint  
 17 Venture.  
 18 ( PAN AM's duties and commitments were memorialized at paragraphs 8 through 18,  
 19 inclusive, to be:  
 (i) to continue to hold the mineral mining rights, license, authority, requisite mining  
 21 permit under Mexican Mining Law to extract, mine and sell or transfer said minerals for  
 22 valuable consideration on the open commodity trade market to foreign and/or national buyers  
 23 without impediment, restriction or otherwise from the indicated mining lot known as "'Mina  
 24 Guadalupe", Baja California, Mexico, which it held at the commencement of the joint venture,  
 with the necessary financing and investment to be provided by GEOTECH;  
 26 (ii) to maintain existing rights, license, authority, governmental concession and/or  
 27 mining permits that had been duly registered with and obtained from the Secretary of Economy,  
 28 Mining Division Public Registry and all due and regulatory fees have been paid thereby allowing  
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 operations to be conducted in compliance with the same, including but not limited complying  
 with technical safety and environmental standards, provide the Ministry with statistic, technical  
 and accounting reports, and file checking reports before the Ministry every May and refer to  
 works carried out from January to December of the preceding year so as to execute its duties  
 under the mining concession, which PAN AM possessed at the commencement of the venture;.  
  
 (iii) to continue with the prosecution of a pending legal motion on the title of "El  
 Tepustete"  in Mexico [ which is Baja 4-a small  concession in the mountains I believe], and, at the disposition of said motion, if favorable to PAN  AM, to include  
 "El Tepustete" as an asset of the Joint Venture, together with any and all other iron mineral  
 concessions that PAN AM acquired in Baja California in the future while the Joint Venture was  
 in force;  
 (iv) to provide its own costs for all geological analysis for the mining lots "Mina  
 Guadalupe" to GEOTECH;  
 (v) to solely control, supervise, and direct all :mining operational activities such as, but  
 not limited to, conducting all, exploration and mining operations, conducting all quality and  
 production controls consistent with industry standards, coordinate and provide all inland freight  
 logistics in an expeditious and reasonable mariner, provide all necessary labor forces, workers  
 for mining' and equipment operations;  
 (vi) to lawfully operate the concession/mine to comply with all local, state, federal. and  
 treatise laws of Mexico, and in the event that a warning or violation to reasonably take all  
 precautionary actions to, mitigate or eliminate GEOTECH's risks and involvement in such  
 violation;  
 (vii) to allow GEOTECH to inspect the concession to ensure compliance with all local,  
 state, federal and treatise laws upon reasonable advance notice from GEOTECH;  
 (ix) to maintain all equipment within the concession according to maintenance schedule  
 or recommendations. provided by the equipment manufacturer;  
 (x) to restore the concession parcel to comply with all environmental restoration  
 laws/regulations according to local, state and federal laws of Mexico, after the iron ore or  
 minerals have been exhausted from the concession/mine.  
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 29. GEOTECH's attorney provided in the JVA at ¶ 22 and ¶ 23 that  
 2 (A) the Joint Venture's Mining Operations and Accounts Payable would be directed,  
 3 controlled and managed by PAN AM through its President, Sharon X-caret Vazquez Monroy,  
 4 and its Vice President and Mining Director: Robert L. Cotton, and  
 5 ( the Joint Venture's Product Sales, Documentary Letters of Credit, Primary Banking  
 6 Accounts and Accounts Receivables would be directed, controlled and managed by GEOTECH  
 through its President & Chief Executive Officer, Edward MUI, its Vice President & Chief  
 Financial Officer, Jimmy YEE, and its Vice President & Corporate Secretary, Shirley Lee. 
 30. The JVA provided at ¶3, ¶4, ¶25 and ¶26 that GEOTECH (a) was obligated to  
 have contributed a minimum of $2,000,000.00 at the time of the commencement of the Joint  
 Venture, and that a total of an additional $4,000,000.00 would be provided as needed for  
 continuing mining operations. The JVA also provides that as of the time of execution of the  
 JVA,  GEOTECH had "committed"[ dont know what this means-its not the same as  provided] $1,000,000.00 in cash and equipment valued at $500,000.00. 
 31. The JVA provides a ¶27 that no party has the right to withdraw any portion of its  
 capital contribution without the express consent of the other party. PAN AM has not approved  
 any withdrawal or return of GEOTECH's capital contribution, except as set out in the JVA.  
  
  
 32. Plaintiffs are informed and believe that GEOTECH has sold the CWRN common  
 18 stock provided to GEOTECH as security for its investment for sums possibly greater than the  
 19 total amount of defendants' investment in the Joint Venture. Moreover, the warrant/option  
 20 obtained by defendants as additional security for the investment, which was redeemed by  
 21 Defendants at $0.005 per share, traded between May 5, 2010 and April 6, 2011, at between  
 22 approximately $0.005 at start and up to over $0.0265 per share. The potential return to  
 23 Defendants from trading 150,000,000 shares of CWRN common stock that was to be held as  
 24 security for the invested funds, if traded at $0.0265 per share, could have provided  
 25 $5,300,000.00 to Defendants. Plaintiffs have requested an accounting from Defendants  
 26 regarding any CWRN shares that were sold by Defendants, but Defendants have failed and  
 27 refused to provide such an accounting.  
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 33. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based thereon allege that Defendants both  
 sold the CWRN shares provided as security and, by placing such a large volume of shares on the  
 public market within a short period of time, damaged the value of CWRN stock which is now  
 trading at approximately $0.0016 per share. The resulting reduction in the stock value of Cotton  
 & Western Mining, Inc. from approximately $ 115, 583,354 to approximately $6,978,618 may  
 have resulted, but without an accounting of when the security was sold, if it was sold, the value  
 change that might have resulted from trading up to 150,000,000 shares of stock within a defined  
 period, the damage resulting to Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. is subject to proof at trial. 
 34. The resulting damage to the asset value of Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. and  
 PAN AM from the defendants' failure to honor the requirements of the JVA and from  
 defendants' self-dealing, cannot be determined without analyzing additional information that is  
 in the possession of defendants, and is subjec to proof at trial. 
 35. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and thereon allege that: GEOTECH has not  
 provided any accounting to date that confirms its contribution of initial stated capital  
 contribution of $1,500,000.00 in cash and $500,000.00 of equipment, only a statement in the  
 JVA that said sum was "committed" by GEOTECH to the Joint Venture project. Further,  
 GEOTECH has not contributed the required additional sum of $4,000,000.00 of its capital  
 commitment, despite the demands of Pan Am for payment of expenses and management fees  
 owed to Pan Am pursuant to the provisions of the JVA, and did not contribute equipment with a  
 value to the Joint Venture of $500,000.00 but instead provided equipment through another  
 corporation that was transferred to a Mexican corporation that was subject to rental fees owed to  
 the title holder of the equipment; that GEOTECH has provided accountings for loans made to the  
 Joint Venture for substantially less than the amount represented to be its capital contribution to  
 the Joint Venture; that said accountings provided by GEOTECH show that GEOTECH has  
 repaid itself more than the amount allegedly loaned to the Joint Venture and more than  
 GEOTECH was entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of the JVA. 
 36. The JVA provides at ¶ 29 for distributions from gross revenues as follows:  
 (A) 5% to GEOTECH as management fees;  
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 ( 5% to PAN AM as management fees;  
 (C) from remaining 90%, 30% to GEOTECH to retire Project Capital Funding;  
 (D) the remaining gross revenues received to be equally distributed between GEOTECH  
 and PAN AM, unless otherwise agreed by GEOTECH and PAN AM. 
 37. Shortly after executing the JVA, Plaintiffs became aware that Defendants had  
 removed a material provision that had been included in all previous drafts of the Joint Venture  
 Agreement. The missing provision regarded the payment and repayment of PAN AM's mining  
 expenses as a percentage of gross revenues before the remainder was equally divided between  
 GEOTECH and PAN AM equal to the percentage GEOTECH was to receive for retirement of  
 invested capital contributions, that is, thirty percent (30%) of the revenues remaining after  
 payment of management fees. 
 38. Upon Plaintiffs discovering that the mining expense reimbursement had been  
 removed from ¶ 29 in the final JVA version that was executed by both parties, Plaintiffs notified  
 Defendants of this error and oversight in the final JVA version, but Defendants refused to  
 replace the missing provision unless Plaintiffs agreed to a completely revised Joint Venture  
 Agreement that would have imposed personal liability on officers, changed the parties to the  
 Joint Venture, added mining properties to be provided by PAN AM, required Plaintiffs to assign  
 100% of their land/extraction lease rights to GEOTECH, increase the stated value of equipment  
 ostensibly provide by GEOTECH, and a number of other requirements that were beneficial to  
 Defendants and detrimental to Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs refused to agree to the additional  
 requirements imposed by Defendants as a condition to restoring the missing provision to ¶ 29 of  
 the JVA. A copy of a proposed draft of the replacement Joint Venture Agreement provided by  
 GEOTECH, which was never approved or signed by Plaintiffs, is attached hereto as Exhibit E  
 and made a part hereof.  
  
 39. The JVA provides at ¶ 37 that all funds of the Joint Venture will be held in the  
 name of the Joint Venture and will not to be commingled with the funds of any other person or  
 entity, and that all Joint Venture funds are to be placed into accounts designated by the parties.  
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 40. GEOTECH, the party charged with the responsibility of handling the investment  
 and sales proceeds of the Joint Venture, and the maintenance of all Joint Venture accounts,  
 placed all funds - loaned, invested and sale proceeds - into an account in its own name,  
 commingling Joint Venture funds with its own. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based  
 thereon allege that Defendants paid their company, related company, and personal expenses  
 from funds that were the property of the Joint Venture, and treated the funds in said account as if  
 said funds were the personal property of the officers and directors of GEOTECH. 
 41. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and thereon allege that GEOTECH, and  
 Defendants individually and collectively, have violated and/or caused GEOTECH to violate the  
 terms of the JVA as follows:  
 (A) GEOTECH has failed to provide capital investment as required by ¶ 4 the JVA,  
 despite repeated requests and notification that additional sums were needed for mining  
 operations;  
 ( GEOTECH has failed to provide and produce copies of all banking statements,  
 transaction, accounting records and financial documentation pertaining to the Joint Venture,  
 despite repeated requests for supporting documentation, as required by ¶ 7 of the JVA;  
 (C) GEOTECH has repeatedly utilized and directed proceeds of sale of product and paid  
 accounts that were not approved and directed by PAN AM in violation of ¶ 22 of the JVA;  
 (D) GEOTECH has failed to allocate and distribute management fees, retirement of  
 Project Capital Funding and proper division of remaining sale proceeds to PAN AM in violation  
 of ¶29 of the JVA;  
 (E) GEOTECH has failed to provide consistent records of sales and sale proceeds in  
 violation of ¶ 34 of the JVA;  
 (F) GEOTECH has failed to place proceeds of sale and other Joint Venture funds into  
 accounts approved by PAN AM, and has failed to joint in opening of bank accounts in the name  
 of the Joint Venture despite PAN AM having attempted to open such accounts, in violation of  
 37 of the JVA;  
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 (G) GEOTECH has maintained all Joint Venture related accounts in its own name, and  
 deposited and kept Joint Venture funds in accounts in its own name, despite the continuing  
 objections of PAN AM, in violation of ¶ 37 of the JVA;  
 (H) GEOTECH has commingled Joint Venture funds with its own funds in violation of ¶  
 37 of the JVA;  
 (1) GEOTECH, by reason of its fiduciary malfeasance and self dealing, has placed both  
 the Joint Venture and PAN AM in a dire financial condition and has been the direct cause of  
 damage and financial loss to PAN AM; 
 (J) GEOTECH has failed to keep accurate and complete books of account of the  
 transactions it claims to have handled on behalf of the Joint Venture in violation of ¶34 of the  
 JVA, and of those accounting records provided by GEOTECH with its representations that the  
 records were full and complete, the accounting records provided by GEOTECH to PAN AM (1)  
 have discrepancies greater than $1,200,000.00, and (2) confirm that more than $962,355.75 of  
 funds resulting from sale of Joint Venture product, that should have been placed in Joint Venture  
 accounts, and that should have been distributed to PAN AM as required by the JVA, had been  
 utilized by GEOTECH for its own purposes unrelated to the Joint Venture, and (3) provided  
 evidence that more $1,000,000.00 of Joint Venture generated funds were utilized by GEOTECH  
 for unapproved payments and non-project related expenses, and (4) GEOTECH had failed to  
 provide any information on more than $1,000,000.00 in retentions;  
 (K) GEOTECH failed to provide proof or documentation for the alleged capital  
 contribution of $1,500,000.00 in cash specified in the JVA as having been "committed" by  
 GEOTECH to the Joint Venture, or documentation of the value of the equipment allegedly  
 contributed by GEOTECH to the Joint Venture as stated in the JVA. 
 42. Based on the information currently available to PAN AM, in addition to obvious  
 material breach of contract as to numerous provisions of the JVA, it is Plaintiffs' belief that the  
 factual background of GEOTECH's self dealing and the self dealing of defendants MUI and  
 YEE, constitutes repeated and continuing breaches of fiduciary duties owed by GEOTECH to  
 PAN AM, conversion of funds due to PAN AM and to the Joint Venture, embezzlement of Joint  
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  Venture and PAN AM funds that should have been held in trust by GEOTECH, theft of monies  
  
 2 received for the benefit of both PAN AM the Joint Venture, intentional fraud, deceit and material  
 3 non-disclosures and misrepresentations.  
  
 FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION  
 Fraud - Intentional Misrepresentation  
  
  
 43. Plaintiffs re-allege and incorporate herein Paragraphs 1 - 42 above.  
 44. Defendants, and each of them, made numerous material factual representations  
 Plaintiff, with knowledge that the representations were false. For example, but not by way of  
 limitation, Defendants falsely represented that they would abide by the terms of the JVA, would  
 provide additional capital required by the terms of the JVA, would provide and produce invoices  
 for the operations they claimed to have paid for the purposes and benefit of the JV, would and  
 did not expend any funds that were due to the JV or received for JV purposes for the purposes of  
 itself or themselves or any of them or for other companies owned or controlled by any one or  
 more of them, would open JV accounts together with plaintiffs for the purposes of the JV and  
 pursuant to the JVA, would and had maintained all JV accounts in the name of the JV, would  
 and had not commingled any of the JV's funds with their own or with the account(s) of any of  
 them, would and had maintained accounts for the JV in accordance with GAAP standards.  
 45. The above representations -along with dozens of others were false, and  
 Defendants knew they were false at the time that each communicated the false representation to  
 Plaintiffs.  
 46. Defendants, and each of them, communicated these false representations to  
 Plaintiffs with an intent to induce Plaintiffs, and each of them, to rely upon them by entering into  
 the JVA with Defendants, and after entering into said JVA continuing to allow Defendants to  
 handle JV operations, accounts, deposits, transportation, and sales of ore from the JV mine.  
 Plaintiffs justifiably relied upon these false representations by, among other things, entering into  
 the JVA with Defendants and continuing to allow Defendants to control the JV funds, accounts,  
 transportation and sales.  
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Imo. Do your dd before investing. I'm not a financial adviser nor compensated for my posts. They don't believe what they say, so why should you?
  
  
  
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