Flimflam chef Tony “Bosco” Pereira last tie to Wendover could be cut next month with the auction of two trailers.
According to a legal notice running in the next three editions of the High Desert Advocate the trailers own by Pereira will be auctioned off to satisfy unpaid rent.
Pereira came to Wendover in 2009 with a great story or stories and with promises to bring an economic boon to town. He along with partner Beth Belio even ran for city council in 2010 and garnered about 25 percent of the vote.
But as the ballots were being counted the couple fled town.
The catalyst behind the sudden move was a reported ultimatum from Plaza owner Scott Bangerter for the back rent and current owed on the restaurant or face eviction.
Most of the restaurants furniture, equipment and fixtures were moved to the old Hot Spot Video building the two converted to living quarters earlier.
He was later charged with one felony count of Theft by Misrepresentation by the Elko Justice Court, Pereira had allegedly been on the lam for over a year when he was arrested trying to board a plane in Hawaii out of the country on November 17, 2011.
He subsequently made bail and returned voluntarily to Elko County and made an appearance in West Wendover Justice Court when he made good on the charge and now according to the Justice Court in Elko even his guilty plea is dismissed.
But while the self styled entrepreneur has a clean record his reputation in Wendover is not so shiny. In fact the $2,100 he paid to get out of the felony has been likened to a drop in the bucket in the amount of money he owes to several other Wendover businesses and individuals who either gave him a line of credit or who worked for him during the one year his Asian Garden Restaurant was operating in the Plaza Shopping Center.
Apart from creating havoc in many local businesses accounting, Pereira indirectly created a new city ordinance. The city now requires the finger printing and back ground checks of all new business owners coming to West Wendover.
Critics of the new ordinance point out that even if it had been in place when Pereira came to town it would not have stopped him then nor after his record has been wiped clean would stop him now.
