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   Edmonton's William Grosvenor, posing as RODD    
   wrote in   
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   "Master of Malice: The Ghermezians put an end to Bill   
   Grosvenor's 'news tips'"   
   Alberta Report, July 3, 1989   
      
   The Ghermezians backed their application for the gag order with   
   stories from Alberta Report and the West German newspaper Die   
   Zeit. Alberta Report has also obtained numerous letters, court   
   documents, newspaper articles - even Grosvenor's own resume -   
   dating back to 1970, revealing that Grosvenor, 48, has a   
   criminal record for assault and extortion, that he was diagnosed   
   at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in British Columbia in 1973 as   
   suffering from a paranoid personality disorder, and that his   
   harassment of the Ghermezians is only the latest in a 20-year   
   series of vendettas against corporations and individuals,   
   including leading figures of the British Columbia legislature   
   and judiciary. The documents also reveal a remarkable   
   willingness on the part of some newspapers to accept Grosvenor   
   at face value. The Edmonton Journal, in particular, has   
   described him over the years as a "consultant," an "import-   
   export consultant" and "president of an international management   
   consulting firm," lending Grosvenor a credibility which his   
   history shows is not deserved.   
      
   William David Michael Grosvenor's career as a self-described   
   opponent of graft and corruption began shortly after he arrived   
   in Toronto (he says from England) in the mid-1960s, and it got   
   off to an inauspicious start. According to a Vancouver Sun story   
   about Grosvenor in July 1970, Grosvenor was fined $50 in April   
   1967 for assaulting a security guard who was attempting to eject   
   him from a bank he was picketing over alleged "irregularity." At   
   about the same time, Grosvenor claimed credit for uncovering   
   wrongdoing in the affairs of Prudential Finance Corp., an   
   Ontario company that collapsed owing creditors $20 million. But   
   then-Finance minister Mitchell Sharp told parliament that   
   Grosvenor had "revealed nothing of value." Indeed, Mr. Sharp   
   believed that Grosvenor, who describes himself in his resume as   
   "a registered expert on fraudulent bankruptcies with the RCMP,"   
   had probably been fired by Prudential's auditors. In 1968, after   
   a brief stint with an accounting firm in Halifax (where he   
   changed his name from Gruber), Grosvenor left for Prince Rupert,   
   B.C., where he found work with accountant Odd Eidsvik. A source   
   claims Mr. Eidsvik soon became disenchanted with Grosvenor's   
   work and cut his pay in half.   
      
   It was while living in Prince Rupert that Grosvenor discovered a   
   new avenue for pursuing his many grievances: the courts. In   
   February 1970, Grosvenor charged Prince Rupert MLA William   
   Murray and provincial court Judge W.N. Poole under the B.C.   
   Companies Act with failing to file an annual return for   
   companies of which he claimed they were directors. A district   
   judge promptly threw out the charges, noting that Grosvenor had   
   failed to make even a prima facie case that Mr. Murray and Judge   
   Poole were directors of the companies in question - but not   
   before the story was picked up and prominently displayed by the   
   Vancouver Province, which printed the news of the charges   
   without comment. At about the same time, Grosvenor charged the   
   local Bank of Montreal with forgery. Again the case was   
   dismissed, with Judge J.T. Harvey labelling Grosvenor a "master   
   of malice" for bringing an action against a bank that had   
   intended only to spare him the embarrassment of having a cheque   
   bounce.   
      
   All told, Grosvenor brought seven court cases in less than a   
   year while living in Prince Rupert. Four never got to trial, two   
   were dismissed and one ended with Grosvenor being ordered to pay   
   a counter-claim larger than the amount owed him. In July 1970,   
   Mr. Justice A.B. Macfarlane of the B.C. Supreme Court invoked a   
   law designed to prevent abuse of the courts to prohibit   
   Grosvenor from instituting any new legal proceedings in the   
   province without the permission of a court. In the meantime,   
   Grosvenor himself had faced charges. In April 1970 he was   
   convicted of attempting to extort $50 from Prince Rupert   
   businessman Campbell McLeod by threatening to prosecute him   
   under the B.C. Companies Act. He was sentenced to one day in   
   jail and fined $400.   
      
   Shortly thereafter Grosvenor moved to suburban Vancouver, where   
   he found a new target in General Motors Canada Ltd. (GM),   
   manufacturers of the problem-plagued Firenza. In May 1973 he and   
   a woman named Hendrika Peeters, with whom he shared a New   
   Westminster address, stationed themselves outside a Vancouver GM   
   dealership and attempted to steer potential customers to another   
   GM dealership a few blocks away. "It is utterly incredible to   
   me," said Mr. Justice A.A. Mackoff of the B.C. Supreme Court in   
   issuing an injunction barring Grosvenor from the site, "that a   
   group saying it seeks to relay information about General Motors   
   should have the temerity to say this GM dealer is a good guy and   
   the other GM dealer, who sells the same products they labelled   
   as junk, is a bad guy." Throughout the affair, Grosvenor passed   
   himself off as the B.C. representative of the respected   
   Automobile Protection Association (APA), prompting APA president   
   Phil Edmonston to ask B.C.'s attorney- general to investigate   
   whether Grosvenor had been "soliciting money or carrying out   
   other undesirable activities in our name."   
      
   Grosvenor dropped out of sight during the mid-1970s, during   
   which time he claims to have been a consultant, "processed for   
   top secret and military security clearance," to the prime   
   minister of Malaysia. In 1980 he surfaced in Edmonton where he   
   threatened to sue the city for $200 when a tent belonging to a   
   Malaysian cultural group with which he was associated blew down   
   in a storm during the city's Heritage Days festival. In February   
   1980, he also gained attention when he apologized to the Iranian   
   Embassy for Canada's role in spiriting six U.S. diplomats out of   
   Tehran in the days following the Islamic revolution. Grosvenor   
   called the assistance given to the diplomats by Kenneth Taylor,   
   Canada's ambassador to Iran, a "criminal act" intended to aid   
   U.S. "spies."   
      
   In the intervening years, Grosvenor has waged an unceasing   
   campaign intended, in his words "to put the Ghermezians out of   
   business." After returning from West Germany last week,   
   Grosvenor was holed up in his home in Edmonton's Dickinsfield   
   neighbourhood, reportedly refusing service of the Triple Five   
   gag order. The company's lawyers were preparing to go to court   
      
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