Dear friends and family of Camp Zoe.
We are sad to report the federal government is apparently attempting to
shut down Camp Zoe. They raided the campground on Monday, November 1,
2010 around 7:30 a.m.. They had a search warrant looking for gate
revenue from the Spookstock 9 (Oct. 29+30) festival weekend and any
financial records. They came in with 70+ officers from the IRS, DEA,
Homeland Security, Highway patrol, and local & regional police
officers. They confiscated gate receipt money from the weekend that was
not already deposited in the bank. They also confiscated some computers
and some paperwork from the file cabinets in the offices onsite. One
patron was arrested for previous warrants unrelated to Camp Zoe. The
same day the IRS seized all the money in the Camp Zoe bank account -
which included most of the gate receipts for the Spookstock 9 weekend.
This money was to be used to pay staff, artists, security, production
(lights & sound), trash pickup, etc. for the festival weekend. It
was also to be used for the basic bills for Camp Zoe to get the
business through the winter - mortgage, electric, insurance, phones,
advertising, staff, etc. On November 8 they also filed an application
to seize the Camp Zoe property. No arrest warrants have yet been issued
for any of the Camp Zoe staff or owners. All of us at Camp Zoe are
doing everything we can to prevent the land seizure and to get the
money back they took from the business. We have hired a team of
attorneys to represent us on all these matters. Many of you have
already reached out to offer financial help as well as moral support.
We do really appreciate it. There has been another account set up to
collect donations to help pay for attorney fees and basic bills for
Camp Zoe while all of this gets sorted out. Our goal is to prove our
innocence and to stay in business. Please send donations to :
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Make Payable To :
“Save Camp Zoe Fund c/o Riezman Berger”
MAIL TO:
Riezman Berger PC
7700 Bonhomme Ave., 7th Floor
Clayton, Missouri 63105
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