by Mike Lear | Dec 3, 2013 | News
The sale of what was to be the site of a sugar refinery in Moberly has been approved by a federal bankruptcy judge. The former Mamtek, International property has been bought by Columbia-based MFA Oil, a farmer-owned cooperative with more than 40-thousand members. It...
by Mike Lear | Nov 27, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
The Office of Secretary of State Jason Kander has filed a civil enforcement action against Memphis, Tennessee-based Morgan Keegan and against 10 of its employees who worked on the sale of 39-million in bonds for the scrapped Mamtek sugar refinery at Moberly. Morgan...
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2013 | News
A House Committee has held its first hearing digging into the Quality Jobs Program. The House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability was originally formed to study the failure of a project to bring a sucralose refinery and more than 600 jobs to Moberly....
by Mike Lear | Sep 25, 2012 | Business, News
An audit that began with the investigation into Mamtek says the Department of Economic Development (DED) has taken some steps to improve its due diligence procedures, but could take more. The Department’s Division of Business and Community Services is...
by Mike Lear | Sep 18, 2012 | Crime / Courts, News
The former chairman and CEO of the failed Mamtek sugar refining plant at Moberly, Bruce Cole, is in custody in Orange County, California. This morning, the Attorney General’s Office along with Randolph County Prosecutor Mike Fussellman, filed five charges in...
