Below are a few research updates to my previous article concerning To the Stars Academy (now To the Stars Media) among other related matters.
An entertainment attorney named to Billboard Magazine’s “Top Music Lawyers” list (for two years in a row) represented TTSA in an agreement concerning alleged scientific experiments with the US Army.
TTSA’s contract with the US Army permits the Army “[p]erfrom assessments, testing, and characterization” using TTSA’s “technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion.”
Putting aside the comic book-like sci-fi description of work, SEC filings at the time would have clearly revealed to any law-abiding government employee — conducting even the most rudimentary due diligence — that TTSA did not have and never invested in any technological or scientific capability required to perform the material obligations described under the US Army agreement. TTSA’s obvious entertainment focus (as revealed by readily available SEC filings) was obviously overlooked, deliberately or otherwise, by the military personnel responsible for approving US Army sign-on to the agreement.
By the terms of the contract itself, TTSA had effectively agreed to carry out advanced — albeit ambiguous and grossly ill-defined — technical analysis related to frontier, cutting-edge scientific concepts. Notwithstanding TTSA’s ostensible scientific research obligations to the US Army under the agreement, the company did not retain an attorney with any relevant experience transacting agreements with the military, nor did counsel have obvious experience advising clients on any scientific research-related matters whatsoever.
Instead, the lawyer TTSA and Luis Elizondo hired to represent them on the contract with the US Army advertises herself as an entertainment attorney. On her law firm webpage, she describes her experience as including helping clients in the music industry to “negotiate music publishing agreements, master use and synchronization licenses, marketing and promotion agreements, as well as work for hire agreements, merchandising agreements and production agreements.”
TTSA’s SEC attorney’s “law firm” address is a warehouse located in Alexandria, VA and her husband served for decades in the US Army, DIA, and ODNI.
In correspondence between TTSA and the SEC, counsel to TTSA was revealed to be Sara Hanks, Managing Partner at KHLK, LLP (now CrowdCheck Law, LLP).
CrowdCheck Law, LLP (f/k/a KHLK, LLP) is a Washington, DC-based entity with a listed business address at 1423 Leslie Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301 — a 11,911 square foot mini-warehouse storage property. (CrowdCheck’s “Contact Us” page unfortunately does not disclose a physical address).
Hank’s husband, Mr. Lonnie D. Henley, “served as a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).” Hanley “started his intelligence career in the US Army, serving 22 years as a China foreign area officer and military intelligence officer including tours in Korea, at Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), on Army Staff, and in the History Department at West Point. Upon retiring from the Army, he joined the senior civil service as Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia and then Senior Intelligence Expert for Strategic Warning at DIA.”
Among the speakers at a UFO-related conference was a US Army intelligence officer with group infiltration and psychological operations experience.
Dr. Joseph “Joe” DiNoto was a speaker at Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference (AAPC) 2022 and was featured on the “National Security” panel that the AAPAC advertised (with unnecessary capitalizations) as “[a]n intriguing panel discussion on the National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP from industry and government experts.”
At one time DiNoto served “[a]s chief of foreign disclosure and technology protection for the Army’s Special Operations Command’s Special Operations Division,” where he worked with “the Army Special Forces, 75th Ranger Regiment, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 4th Psychological Operations Groups and the 95th Civil Affairs Brigade.”
DiNoto was also
unit commander of a quasi-intelligence division, and one of our duties was the infiltration and exploitation of trans-national crime groups and terrorist groups. Our duty station was New York City. We were put on loan very frequently to support the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and several joint terrorism task force organizations.
In 2018, TTSA CEO Tom DeLonge and TTSA CFO Louis Tommasino Conveyed to One Another and Sold to a Third Party, $3.8 million in Real Estate on the Same Day, for No Obvious Personal or Business Reasons.
On September 13, 2018, TTSA CEO Tom DeLonge conveyed to TTSA Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer Louis Tommasino real estate located at 627 15TH ST DEL MAR, CA, 92014–2524 via quitclaim deed (complete release of rights). Tommasino then deeded the property to an Edward D. Doherty that same day.
RedFin estimates the property to be currently valued at $6,238,307.
One reason for the transactions may have to do with the financial disclosures contained in TTSA’s Semiannual Report pursuant to Regulation A (Form 1-SA) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which TTSA filed September 25, 2018 (12 days after the above property conveyances).
