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Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Great Tretter Conspiracy......

On May 4th, 2017, a nearly 39 year old column magically appeared on my Facebook page. Alas, my best man David McKee had uncovered this article I had stashed away in an old desk drawer. I do not recall stopping and meeting the fallen runner named Tretter, but the wild imaginations of my friends 39 years later provided me many laughs over the past few months!  Ironically this incident took place just two months ahead of the very first Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff Half Marathon, now celebrating its 40th race on August 12th!



David McKee to Neil Weintraub
May 4
WEINTRAUB TO BE QUESTIONED IN COLD CASE! The year was 1978, Jimmy Carter was in the whitehouse, crime was rampent. The cold war was cold. Why did this 13 year old stop mid-race to inquire about "Treeter"? Was Treeter a Soviet spy, mafioso, fixing the race, was Treeter the reason Weintraub fled to the Southwest. Stay tuned as we dig deep into this cold case.
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Neil Weintraub Holy cow....where did you dig that up? This went right by our house, mile 9.
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Neil Weintraub Junior Lane...a new cold case for you....
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David McKee Interesting that you so quickly post an alibi from almost FOURTY years ago.
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Neil Weintraub I like the last sentence in the paragraph...today if I raced it would read, the shortest run of his long running career....
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Diana Gettinger Weintraub That's the year I was born!!!! Ahahahahaha!
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David McKee And already a character witness materializes out of nowhere...
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Neil Weintraub Good thing I waited 29 years to rob the cradle.....
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David McKee Admitting to theft; this case in warming up.
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Janet Nelson-Bain This is funny
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David McKee Discoverd by detectives today, hidden beneath the doormat at the Weintraub house!
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Steve Rhode It is no coincidence that the Weintraubs moved recently...
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Steve Rhode Just look who happens to be Bobby Nugent (mentioned in next paragraph) This goes back to Brooklyn; a juggernaught case if there ever was one...
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David McKee Excellant work Detective Rhodes
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Steve Rhode In 1984, under pressure from the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Nugent was forced to resign from New Ways Ministry but continued his work as a private individual or under various auspices. (Could Tretter be one of those auspices?)🤔🤔🤔
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Steve Rhode Since this is public....
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Neil Weintraub this thread is going to be chapter in my autobiography.
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Steve Rhode And just look who shows up as Nick Deak? I don't like this one bit
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Steve Rhode At the heart of the collapse, according to the Deak family, are allegations in a report by the President's Commission on Organized Crime about the laundering of money, so that drug traffikers could secretly repatriate profits to Latin America.

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amage we have suffered from maliciousness in that report to a very great extent caused the downfall of a very fine firm and the damage to a very fine man - my dad,'' said Nicholas Deak's son, R. Leslie Deak, executive vice president of the holding company, Deak & Company, and president of Deak-Perera U.S. Blame Placed on Rivals...
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Steve Rhode Organized crime....repeat...organzied crime...
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Steve Rhode - In 1978 Deak & Company and one of its vice presidents were convicted on criminal charges of willfully failing to file reports on about $11 million deposited by two Philippine businessmen. (There is TOO MUCH COINCIDENCE)
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Janet Nelson-Bain ....even funnier
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David McKee Mounting evidence unveils 1978 Scarsdale race was in fact a front for something much more sinister. You can run but you can't hide Weintraub.
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Neil Weintraub Yup...this thread has put me on the run once again...
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David McKee PROOF! Weintraub admits being on the run. The sleeper cell awakens; we advise everyone to stay alert.
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Neil Weintraub Dont you mean the Schwartz Awakens?
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Steve Rhode Neil...I know a few safe houses and sanctuary cities you can lay low but I guess you've been doing that in Flagstaff for a while....sorry to blow your cover.
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Adam Unger Nice!
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David McKee BREAKING UPDATE! TRETTER LOCATED!!!!
Our investigative team discovered that the NY NY law firm of McDonouugh, Marcus, Cohn and Treeter is the business of former Scarsdale resident Franklin Tretter. It appears that Tretter may be living in New York city and the Southhampton. Treter now 82 will be questioned in this cold case gone HOT!
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Neil Weintraub Sounds like it is time to hire a special counselor to investigate....
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David McKee It's time to confess Weintrub.
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Neil Weintraub "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Weintraub go."
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David McKee Let me guess, you think you're being treated "unfairly".
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Neil Weintraub Most unfairly in the history of the world.....
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Steve Rhode Burning HOT!!!
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Neil Weintraub Bruce Higgins.......here is the conspiracy theory against me, and the real news that started it all as uncovered by David McKee
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David McKee MYSTERY SOLVED! MYSTERY SOLVED! See the letter below directly from Andrew Tretter son of famed Franklin Tretter. As it turns out Neil was walking and probably saw someone giving out free gatorade.
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David McKee David: Thank you for clarifying your inquiry regarding a day that was not one of my father's finest. He, like Neil, continued on to have a "weekend warrior" career running in 3 New York City marathons and countless other races and training runs with h...See More
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Neil Weintraub And of course Abe Simon lived across the street from us and was the one who inspired me to run 40 years ago......sounds like a reunion should take place next time I'm back in NY. 40th anniversary of this event will a year from next week!
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Steve Rhode Well done David, well done. I guess we can all breathea sigh of relief...
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Neil Weintraub While you may be relieved, other inquiring minds will be disappointed if this mystery theatre thread has reached its epilogue. I for one think this is far from over......
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Al Hendricks The article says "Tretter", not "Treeter". Sounds more Russian, doesn't it?
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Neil Weintraub sure al, why not bring potus into this! He may actually had encounters with Tretter!
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Neil Weintraub Dave David McKeeSteve Rhode, and Al Hendricks, looks like my 39 year old racing bib may have DNA evidence to prove the innocence or guilt of those involved.....
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David McKee 2524...Obviously a code
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Robert Miller I'm not a conspiracy nut, but the numbers on this bib add up to 13, exactly the same as his bib from his first Sacred Mtn. run that he just posted. This can't be a coincidence! He is taunting us with clues! Throwing them around like bad puns.
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Neil Weintraub which if the numbers are flipped, 31, the lucky number of Dana Weintraub and her brother.
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Steve Rhode Is that a bit of dried blood on the Hanover bib on the 4? David McKee do you feel you are being watched these days since this started? I feel like eyes are on me all the time now....
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Neil Weintraub Dana Weintraub....Diana Gettinger Weintraub, might need eyewitnesses and ask Charles Weintraub to come out of retirement to represent me in this great mystery. Dana and Dad, you were there at the finish line and I remember going out with Leslie and Matt Cannold on Richard Maggod's boat that infamous Father's Day 1978!
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Charles Weintraub Too long ago for me!!!!!!
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Steve Rhode Ah HA!!!! Another discredited witness!!!
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Neil Weintraub Oh yeah, Diana Gettinger Weintraub...you would not be a creditable witness since you and Victoria Gettinger were inside Carol Gettinger!
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Steve Rhode Covering tracks?
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David McKee The plot thickens...
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Neil Weintraub Becky SimonDiana Simon.....thought youd like to see this ever developing post!
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Steve Rhode Call the Flagstaff Law Office of David G. Bednar at (928)779-3242 for a free initial Consultation...may want to inquire Neil....🤔
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Neil Weintraub conflict of interest....bednar is former sponsor of bbbsf half marathon
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Steve Rhode Neil Weintraub How conveinent for you...
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David McKee Calling dad to help dig you out is probably smart Weintraub. Or is he an accomplice!!!!????
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Neil Weintraub David McKee, dad says statue of libertations make me innocent of your accussations.
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David McKee Why would a statue of librarians make you innocent?
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Neil Weintraub Isnt she all about freedom?
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John Lowe when is this going to end?
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Neil Weintraub tbanks to your post, probably never.
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John Lowe glad I could be a contributor
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Neil Weintraub have a feeling this may be incorporated into Soulstice shirt design. maybe jailbird pink stripes...
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John Lowe I think the "poop" emoticon should be incorporated into the Soulstice shirt design
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David McKee Well detective Steve Rhode it now appears that John Lowe aka "John Micael Komchaka" was trying to throw us off the case before he headed to Norway as a probable cover for a Russia meeting with Tretter. No wonder he wanted the investigation to end.
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Steve Rhode MMMM Russian collusion?
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