Blood Money – The True Romney Legacy

By Len Faucher, January 21, 2012
Found on: www.BlindToCrime.com

Realizing there was a rapidly expanding Boston based franchise chain competitor to Staples known as OfficeLand, Mitt Romney and other Staples founders crafted a conspiracy to bribe the family, employees, and franchisees of the OfficeLand founder. The conspiracy led to the financial ruin of its company president and to the untimely death and possible murder of one of the franchise owners. This is the story.

In Central Maine, back in the 70’s, it was almost impossible for uneducated but astute women to become part of the glamor they experienced through the various glistening Hollywood soap operas. In their backwoods civilization happiness meant only getting drunk or smoking the weed secretly grown in the deep woods hidden within the forest. Relationships might have been with a boyfriend but often with someone else’s husband or even with one of their own family members. Escaping the male dominated, ax swinging society became a challenge open to very few women who had the courage to fight the system. That was the case of Lynn Mason whose family dated back to the original Maine settlers and farmed the many acres of fertile land over several centuries. Lynn was a gentle woman who had only a high school education but wanted more for herself and her children. When Len Faucher knew her, she had four wonderful children whom she loved and inspired to learn the beauty of natural life. From walks along Marginal Way to finding star fish on remote Maine beaches, in her unique way, she was always teaching her children values well beyond what could be purchased. That’s why this story must be told as her untimely death was the direct result of the arrogance of wealthy individuals who tread upon the lives of good people in order to make more money. The country’s popular media only talks of the stripping of assets including retirement funds when venture capitalists like Mitt Romney and Bain Capital plunder a targeted company. They fail to mention what happens to those people, like Lynn Mason Crocker, who took gargantuan steps to better herself by owning a business thus fulfilling the American dream. The media also ignores the corrupt legal system that has been bought off as the executioners for the rich. In Lynn’s individual journey, her life was the cost of doing business and a by-product of Romney, Stemberg and Kahn, greed ridden quest of Bain Capital, the Staples Company.

Lynn Mason of Industry, ME, was married to Donald Crocker. Together they purchased the OfficeLand of Sanford, ME franchise from the company president, Leonard Faucher, back in 1989. The Crocker’s new OfficeLand franchise was part of a rapidly growing chain of combined office products and computer stores. Faucher had been working to develop his chain into what Ace Hardware had done in the hardware industry and planned several thousand OfficeLand franchises. In August of 1991, his picture and story appeared in Success Magazine and his company was featured in national trade magazines.

In 1991, OfficeLand, Inc. was sold as a 23 store franchise chain to Staples, Inc. for millions of dollars without any knowledge to its founder and company president. A conspiracy to defraud Leonard Faucher from learning about the sale or earning any proceeds from the sale was crafted by Faucher’s primary competitor at the time, the founders of Staples. This included Mitt Romney, Tom Stemberg, and Leo Kahn. Many of Faucher’s financially strapped family and friends were employed by OfficeLand. This included Faucher’s wife, mother, brothers, sister, and a close friend. In this article they are known as “the Family”.

The single person in Faucher’s Family that had the business knowledge to create and execute the conspiracy was Faucher’s sister’s second husband, Robert Pereira. Pereira, a Babson College MBA, and Kathleen Faucher (now Johnson of Colebrook, NH) enlisted the support of their mother on the pretense that the entire Family would help her direct her oldest son to the priesthood. Through Jerry Berberian, Faucher learned that the Staples founders agreed to provide on-going legal support and make two payments to the Family in return for the Family’s promise to insure that Faucher never emerge, again, as a competitor. Two years after OfficeLand, Faucher’s attempt to create another chain of stores was also foiled by his Family. The first payment to the Family was all cash while the second and larger payment was issued as restricted Staples stock to be conveyed ten years later in the form of a Trust fund in which both Faucher’s mother and sister would oversee. The immediate Family also knew that they needed the assistance of Faucher’s friend and even his cousins. By paying them off they also obtained just about everyone who could help Faucher realize what was happening to him. The Family rationalized that, it was because of their employment in OfficeLand, they deserved the rewards of selling out the company. To insure Faucher’s ignorance of their plot they pretended to keep Faucher involved with Family reunions and birthdays of their children. Whenever the word OfficeLand came up, they synchronized their response by showing regret for Faucher’s inability to properly run a company. Their pledge to one another which included the OfficeLand franchise owners was to isolate Faucher from any knowledge of their plot. Crafted by a devious and jealous Family, the conspiracy would be their life-long journey even if it meant causing Faucher’s demise.

Staples used their law firm, Hale and Dorr, to work out the complicated legal details required to complete their conspiracy. However, Hale and Dorr also represented OfficeLand Inc. Attorney Jeff Stein met with Faucher on several occasions and helped him plan an investment and/or merger that Faucher was interested in making so that he could grow his profitable franchise chain much faster. Stein arranged that he meet with Joseph Mays of the Securities Consulting Group in New York. Mays sent Faucher directly to Alan Wolfson of ABC Consulting in Salt Lake City where Wolfson arranged a merger for Faucher’s company with Members Service Corporation (MSC). Mays told Faucher that the Mormons controlled most mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. Years later Faucher realized that the Joe Mays statement was one of Mitt Romney’s financial fingerprints. After considerable work and flying around the country many times to find a location for his new company, OfficeLand International, Inc. Faucher and the MSC Chairman, Arthur Feher, met with the OfficeLand franchise owners to explain the benefits of the new company. To complete the deal Faucher brought all his franchise agreements to his new Merger and Acquisition attorney, David Sharpe of Boston. Staples and Faucher’s family then pulled the trigger of their conspiracy. Faucher was told that MSC changed their mind and sent letters to all his franchise owners to stop paying monthly royalties. The franchises refused to respond to Faucher’s inquiries. All of the stores he visited were closed. At the same time, Faucher’s wife filed for divorce, and faked a bankruptcy using expensive Philadelphia lawyers. The plan worked for both Staples and his Family as Faucher was driven to complete financial ruin. Through Jennifer Rood, an attorney in Manchester, NH, Faucher made a valiant attempt to recover his franchise documents but Sharpe ignored Rood’s request. Not realizing the involvement of his Family, Faucher was prevented from getting back on his feet. He was constantly being deceived by who he thought was his caring Family, the very people that he had trusted and employed.

Many years later, obtaining documents at the Federal Records Center in Waltham, MA, Faucher and his new wife discovered the involvement of Staples, Inc. and powerful lawyers with ties to proven criminals. Faucher also discovered that Jeff Stein, OfficeLand’s lawyer, personally represented Mitt Romney in a legal case against a Massachusetts Turnpike Authority official. Through Stein’s friend, Joe Mays, in New York City, Stein sent Faucher to one of the most deceptive securities fraud individuals in the country. Known by Romney in Salt Lake City, Alan Wolfson, ABC Consulting, Inc. and their accomplishes are, today, all sitting in jail after being found guilty of many counts of fraud and securities infractions. David Sharpe, who now lives on the Cape, was nothing more than a stooge of Hale and Dorr and its dual Staples and OfficeLand legal representation. Staples, Romney, Stemberg, and Kahn, with the cooperation of Faucher’s greedy Family did get away with the conspiracy. However, the fierce activity used to stop Faucher from learning that he was cheated out of his dream of creating a national franchise operation also resulted in a much more insidious crime. It is the story of the mysterious and untimely death of Lynn Crocker and whether her death was actually second degree murder.

Faucher’s wife, Susan Faucher (now Ramos), was a key player in the conspiracy. This caused dissension resulting in her filing for divorce and a fake bankruptcy at the same time profiting from the stolen assets of OfficeLand, Inc. Behind the scenes, Faucher’s mother hoping for many years that he would leave his family and enroll to become a Catholic priest, intentionally caused tension between the couple. His mother’s desire for him to become a priest was not a simple wish but an obsession that lasted for decades. She often chided Faucher for striving to become a successful business person. Since his early childhood, Faucher had been religiously prepared and was pressured by his mother to pledge his life to become a priest.

Susan Faucher’s assistant in this plot was William Romaniecki of Attleboro, MA. A friend of Faucher since junior high school, Romaniecki had always been jealous of Faucher’s success. After Romaniecki was fired as a teacher at Cardinal Cushing Academy, Faucher had even hired his friend as a Vice President of OfficeLand only to fire him for poor performance a few months later. Romaniecki and Susan Faucher also employed Faucher’s teenage son, Len Jr., who was in regular touch with his father to report back on his father’s activities. Susan Faucher, after the Staple’s secret acquisition, moved out of their family home in 1992, allowing her to better communicate with others that also took part in the conspiracy. Still in denial about his Family’s involvement, Faucher was unaware of the extent to which his movements were being carefully watched.

Lynn Crocker, the Office Land franchise owner, divorced from her husband in 1991, and moved from Wells, Maine, to Manchester, NH, with two of her four children. She told Faucher that her husband had closed their OfficeLand store for unknown reasons. Faucher visited her to learn more as to her reason for moving to Manchester. On a second visit to Lynn’s apartment to his surprise, Susan Faucher had been waiting for him. The two women had been talking. Uncomfortable in seeing them both together, he rose up from a chair to leave. He looked back and saw Susan fiercely coming down on him with a steak knife. Wrestling with Susan and preventing her continuous thrusts to stab him, Faucher yelled for Lynn’s help to call the police. The police finally arrived to arrest Susan and take her to jail. She admitted to the police that she intended to kill Faucher. Lynn explained later that her telephone had been pulled out of the jack preventing a call to the police and she had to get help from a neighbor. Susan was charged with attempted murder and was kept in a Manchester jail until arraignment. Faucher was contacted by the NH States Attorney General’s office explaining that they wanted his cooperation in prosecuting Susan for attempted murder. Besieged with pleas from Susan’s parents and his son, Faucher erroneously refused to testify. Instead, Susan accepted a lesser charge of Domestic Violence and served three months in Hampstead State Hospital. Upon recommendation by Mark Jewel, Guardian ad Litem, Faucher was awarded custody of his underage son. Upset at Faucher’s refusal to allow the state to prosecute Susan for attempted murder and in fear of possible retributions from Susan, Lynn left Manchester moved to a new apartment in Springdale, ME.

Without OfficeLand stores as his income, and in need of a job, Faucher went to work at a South Portland, ME branch of Towhill Office Products in South Portland. Len Jr. had become 16 and beyond the age of a legal guardian and chose to stay with his mother, who was out of jail, in Londonderry, NH. Faucher, looking for facts regarding OfficeLand, renewed and developed his relationship with Lynn. The couple moved in together in York, ME where Faucher commuted each day to work in South Portland.

Lynn Crocker’s divorce stipulated that the parents share custody of all four kids. In a surprising move, Lynn’s ex-husband decided to seek full custody of all four children. Donald Crocker had changed lawyers to a powerful law firm out of Kennebunk that amazingly reversed the earlier stipulation and put Donald in full control of the children. Being a dedicated mother, Lynn became extremely distraught and was forced to depend on her ex-husband’s generosity to see her children. Her positive and joyous nature turned into depression and doom. Lynn also had told Faucher something of her past that she had told very few people. Since the age of ten when her mother had died, she consistently had been raped by her own father. After being told this terrible story Faucher took her to a psychiatrist in Biddeford who met with Lynn and later told Faucher that it would take many years for her to recover from incest. The doctor expressed his doubt that she would ever have a normal relationship with a man. Lynn on many fronts, from her abusive husband to her father, needed a great deal of care. Faucher believes that a large sum of Staples’ money was behind the expensive lawyers and senseless judgment against her. What Lynn was not aware at the time, was that Staples had entered into agreement to buy out all the OfficeLand stores including hers in Sanford. Donald Crocker certainly knew of the acquisition and planned to singularly profit from the sale. Lynn also conveyed to Faucher her dismay as to why her uncaring ex-husband attempted to connect her to other single men they both knew, insisting that she should date anyone else but Faucher.

Continuing her relationship with Faucher, before Thanksgiving of 1992, Lynn was under enormous pressure to return to her ex-husband. Her oldest son, Donald, had been pleading with his mother to leave Faucher before Christmas so as to experience his perception of their original family. Lynn sadly informed Faucher that she would be returning to her ex-husband and was doing so for the good of her kids. She insisted that there was no loving relationship with her abusive ex-husband and that he had been happy about the divorce. Respecting her decision Faucher helped her leave. Faucher’s Towhill employment had come to an end because Staples had purchased the large Boston based office Supply Company. With little money and no employment Faucher asked his mother if he could temporarily move in with her.

Faucher stayed in Waltham with his mother through Christmas. He was feeling the pressure to either find a good job or start a new company. At the age of 47, he knew his best chance was to become an entrepreneur again. Sometime after the first of January, 1993, Faucher was informed by his mother that she had received a telephone call from Lynn’s sister. Tina Mason had told Faucher’s mother that Lynn had been admitted to the Biddeford State Mental Hospital and wanted Faucher to help remove her from the run down and depressing institution. Having had special education certification as a teacher in Massachusetts, Faucher was aware that more than any other New England state, Massachusetts had better facilities to help mentally disturbed patients. His research determined that the best state hospital to bring Lynn, if needed, would be the long –term care facility at the Fuller Hospital in Attleboro. He eventually travelled to Biddeford on a cold winter day. Lynn had been staying in a locked down facility. After they met, again, Lynn pleaded to be released. Sure as to what his next steps would be, Faucher signed her out of the institution. Faucher also realized that he had a very serious problem. Where would he take her since he had, himself, nowhere to live? His mother would never permit her to stay in her home. As it was late evening, for one night he stayed with Lynn in an inexpensive motel in Portsmouth, NH. A good part of the evening he had to explain to Lynn that they could not get married as she wanted to do. She told him that when she was with Donald for the holidays he was very abusive and regularly insulted her in front of her children. She explained that she never would go back. Trying carefully not to upset her, Faucher described the importance of obtaining solid long-term mental health before she could be in a state of mind to make any major decision affecting her future.

The single individual that Faucher had known most of his life was friend Bill Romaniecki of Attleboro, MA. Finding a safe place for Lynn was more important than anything, and Romaniecki’s address would help establish the necessary residency requirement for Lynn’s admission to Fuller.

Agreeing to help Lynn with the residency requirement, Bill and his wife, Jackie (a science teacher at Norton Middle School) were gracious and prepared a room for Lynn in their split level home basement. Faucher had seen a poster of a nearby high school promoting the performance of Gilbert and Sullivan the Mikado. The tickets were cheap and he realized that Lynn needed something relaxing and different to enjoy. The first night at Romaniecki’s home he took Lynn to the performance which she thoroughly enjoyed. He returned her back to the Romanieckis, and then traveled 40 miles north to stay at his mother’s house. Of course, he also told his inquiring mother of the unfortunate situation that Lynn found herself. For a regular church going Catholic that often accompanied Cardinal Law on his pilgrimages, Ruth Faucher’s reaction was cool and uncaring, almost ignoring everything he had told her. Problems began to appear on the horizon, as Jackie and Bill did not follow through on their promise to help Lynn get her Massachusetts driver’s license. Faucher had made arrangements at Fuller Hospital for her to be admitted, but the Romanieckis kept stalling with their help of taking her to the Motor Vehicle Department.

Despite Lynn’s desperate position, Faucher had a much larger problem. He needed to get back on his feet, again, by either getting a job or starting a new company. His brother, Tom, stopped by and was unsympathetic to his plight telling him “….why don’t you get a job like everyone else?” He sucked up to his jealous brother as he had always done for many decades since they were children. Faucher started selling popular pre-paid telephone cards after listening to a sales presentation In Woburn.

Years earlier, when Faucher was an altar boy at Our Lady’s Catholic Church in Waltham, at the age of 15, he had to fight off being raped by a catholic priest. At that time he only told two close friends, one of whom was Bill Romaniecki. Strangely, Romaniecki, just after accepting Lynn into his home, asked Faucher if he would be willing to convey this traumatic episode to lawyers in Providence. He explained to Faucher that it was important for church officials to fully understand the illness of their fallen priest. With the stipulation that Faucher was not seeking any money from this revelation, he agreed. One evening Romaniecki accompanied Faucher to meet with two lawyers at one of Providence’s largest law firms. After questioning Faucher’s story, they asked him to write it up in his own words and send it to them as they would carefully present the letter to Archdiocesan officials. He did exactly as they requested and sent the letter to the lawyers but never heard anything back. As the reader might suspect, Romaniecki later was proven to not be a friend despite the sympathetic appearance he was presenting to Faucher. Faucher believes that the lawyers were paid by the Family and with Staples money to destroy his reputation. They used Faucher’s own letter to convince other family members and people associated with Faucher, including his franchise owners, that Faucher was a victim of sexual assault by a priest and had a serious mental disorder. At the time, the television around the country had started running stories about pedophile priests and most Catholics were horrified to learn that priests in their own churches had been molesting altar boys for many years. The timing was right for the conspirators to target a victim of a priest’s sexual attack in order to destroy Faucher’s reputation. The real facts were that there had been no mental health damage done to Faucher. The only damage that was occurring was performed by Faucher’s own Family. The vast sums of Staple’s money were the incentive.

Within a week of Lynn’s arrival to Attleboro, Faucher visited , only to observe Lynn getting physically close to Romaniecki, hugging him and wearing his shirts and sweaters. Faucher was concerned about this unusual affection. Romaniecki was also unemployed, hanging around Lynn all day while his wife was at work.

Taking Lynn out of Romaniecki’s home for an ice cream one afternoon, she became very depressed and was openly sobbing looking to have her children back. She began losing control of herself and Faucher immediately took her to Sturdy Hospital, the city medical facility in Attleboro. After being seen by the doctor, they placed a police officer at the entrance to her room and told Faucher that she was a “danger to herself”. He was permitted entry to console her and, again, heard her pleas to see her children. It was all very sad but nothing could be done. The doctor on call told Faucher that she was immediately being sent to Corrigan State Mental Hospital in Fall River where they could help. Faucher followed the ambulance and assisted with her admission.

About two months followed where, on occasions, Faucher visited Lynn in Fall River over 60 miles away. They would only allow Faucher to see Lynn for about two hours at a time and she was not permitted to leave the building. During this time at his mother’s home, Ruth Faucher tried, again, to convince him to enter the Seminary for Delayed Vocations in Weston. Out of the blue, he received a call from Lynn’s doctor who wanted to see him personally to discuss Lynn. In Fall River he was told by the doctor that Lynn was terribly sick and was seriously manic depressive or bipolar. Sitting with Lynn and her doctor they discussed her getting long term care at Fuller which the doctor agreed. Within a few days Faucher visited Fuller and made arrangements for Lynn to be directly admitted from Corrigan. As previously arranged Faucher gave the Fuller admission’s office Romaniecki’s address as to where Lynn officially resided. Returning to Corrigan State Hospital, the doctor, again, explained the gravity of Lynn’s condition repeating that she was a danger to herself. He emphasized that he would not release her if Faucher did not bring her directly to Fuller. From Corrigan, with Lynn and her suitcase, they drove in Faucher’s 1991 Mazda directly to the Fuller Hospital in Attleboro. Lynn was upbeat and excited at the promise of being cared for so that she could get well again and see her children. Faucher drove up to the front of this isolated institution and brought Lynn into admissions. However, to his surprise they were aware that he was coming and refused Lynn’s admission telling her that she was an out of state resident and not eligible for care. Faucher denied that to be the case as she was registered using Romaniecki’s address and pointed out that she came directly from another Massachusetts state hospital. He asked them to call her doctor at Corrigan but they refused. The Fuller people were firm and would not admit her under any condition.

Late in the day, Faucher had no other choice but to bring her, again, to the Romaniecki home where they gladly accommodated the very distraught young woman. Lynn, exhausted and depressed went immediately downstairs to sleep. However, upstairs and opposite from one another, Bill and his wife proceeded to tell Faucher that there was nothing wrong with Lynn and that she was not bi-polar. Repeating in detail what he was told by the doctor Faucher asked the confused couple what they thought the problem was. There simple one word response was “you”. Angry and disgusted with Romaniecki’s poor judgment, Faucher departed. He told his mother the situation but she was unmoved. Very early the next morning he got up to, again, travel down to Attleboro in hopes that he could meet up with Jackie. Being a teacher as he once was, he hoped she would be more receptive to discussion. Instructed by Romaniecki to enter through the basement door as he often did to visit Lynn, Faucher entered the home and waited outside Lynn’s room as she had been sleeping. He met up with one of Romaniecki’s sons and told him to tell his parents that he was downstairs waiting to discuss the Lynn situation. Waiting to talk with Jackie while Bill and his son delivered newspapers, Faucher realized the paper delivery role was strangely reversed as Jackie delivered the papers. While Faucher was quietly waiting downstairs the doorbell rang. Down the stairs came two policemen listening to Bill telling them to arrest Faucher for trespassing. Stunned at this reaction, Faucher explained to the police that he was not trespassing as no one ever asked him to leave but would immediately do so as was requested. The police were respectful and Faucher immediately departed. After returning to his mother’s home he conveyed the upsetting story to his mother, who again had little reaction.

Within a few days, his two brothers, Tom and George, arrived at their mother’s home to witness Ruth Faucher (Faucher’s mother) relating that she had received a bomb scare from an unknown person. The person said that her home would be bombed unless her son, Len Faucher, left immediately. Faucher’s brothers demanded that he leave the home at once. For about two weeks Faucher, for the first time in his life, began living as a homeless person in a rundown old storage building in Nashua, NH. His sudden personal calamity made it impossible to follow up with anything that was happening with Lynn as all he could do was focus on staying alive. Neither a smoker nor a drinker, Faucher remained focused of the larger objective of finding income.

About two months passed. Faucher visited his mother and was still in complete denial as to his Family’s involvement in the conspiracy. There was a summons waiting for him, a restraining order issued by the Attleboro District Court. The order scheduled a hearing in Attleboro stating that Faucher was a threat to Lynn Crocker who resided at the Romaniecki’s home. Faucher had never attempted to visit or contact Lynn or Romaniecki after being thrown out of their home. However, he decided to attend the court hearing and respond to the Court’s premise that he was a threat to anyone. He also did not want that to appear on his record. Arriving early to a completely empty court room, Faucher observed Romaniecki and Lynn were sitting together. He said nothing and sat down at the other side of the huge hall. It looked like Lynn had been drugged as she showed no emotions. Two court officers appeared in the large old court room. As soon as they did Romaniecki went up to both of them and quietly stated something. Suddenly, they rushed Faucher taking him into the back of the court room. They stated that Romaniecki told them that Faucher had a gun in his briefcase. Never owning a gun, Faucher opened his briefcase for inspection and satisfied the officers. Waiting for a couple of hours while many other people also entered the court room, the case of the restraining order finally came up. Romaniecki tried to speak for Lynn Crocker, but the judge refused to let him do so often telling him that his disruption was unacceptable. The judge asked Faucher what was going on and Faucher carefully explained the circumstances as to why he was there. Faucher also presented his own background including his previous association with another well-known Massachusetts judge by the name of Monty Basbas who would vouch for Faucher if needed. Asking Faucher to simply stay away from the Romaniecki residence, the judge ruled that there was no need for a restraining order and politely thanked Faucher for coming into court. While feeling absolved by the judge, Faucher also knew full well that Romaniecki had no concern about Lynn’s medical condition and was doing everything that he could do to keep Faucher away from Lynn …but why?

Another month went by and through the help of a new friend who was a research scientist at Tufts University; Faucher was able to become productive again and did start a new company. It took him many years of overcoming the incredible denial regarding the involvement of his Family and a new marriage to a very smart woman to fully understand what caused his turbulent life that lasted for decades. The reason to insure that Faucher had no further contact with Lynn Crocker was quite simple. After returning to her ex-husband before Thanksgiving of 1992, Lynn had learned about all the 23 OfficeLand stores being purchased by Staples for a great deal of money. To keep the truth from him of this conspiracy, they had to make sure that Lynn would never be able to contact Faucher again. If Lynn had been admitted to the Fuller Hospital, at even one visit, she might have told Faucher about the real facts of OfficeLand. However, in the Romaniecki home, Lynn’s depression and illness was intentionally exacerbated by pressuring her to take additional measures, as she did, to stay away from Faucher. Romaniecki also used Faucher’s teenage sexual attack by a priest as the reason for Lynn’s horrible mental condition. Faucher’s Family also participated in the plot to keep Lynn from talking. To keep the money they already received and insure the promised Trust Fund years later, they had to appease Romney, Stemberg and Staples (who all knew Faucher was the real owner of OfficeLand). The Family decided that it was far more important to keep Lynn restrained from seeing Faucher under any condition. This included compromising Lynn’s own grave medical condition. It is Faucher’s belief that the people involved should be held accountable for their actions.

It was only several weeks before the date of this article that Faucher, unquestionably, discovered the truth of Lynn Crocker. For many years there was no record or person that could be found to explain what ever happened to her. It was a simple Face Book page put up by Lynn’s friend, Tina Chase, depicting an enshrined early picture of Lynn. Learning of her fate, the picture memorialized her memory and earned loving responses by two of her children.

Lynn’s children, now adults, and any caring person should be asking questions as to how, when, and where their mother died. The large law firms, who were paid by Staples or by one of Romney’s secret Cayman Island accounts, should be reprimanded for their participation of playing a part in denying Lynn’s rights as a mother. If Lynn had never known of Len Faucher and OfficeLand, she would probably be alive today. It was his vision of growing several thousand OfficeLand stores, like Ace Hardware in the hardware industry that enabled Staples’s ruthless activity to shut down competition. However, it was not the Staple’s corporation that made that decision but arrogant and ruthless leaders of their company including Mitt Romney, Tom Stemberg, and the late Leo Kahn. They fueled the fatal actions that doomed Lynn Crocker. Collectively, they all became billionaires as the result. The money the Faucher’s family received is truly “blood money”.

In order to make money, no one can argue that our laws permit Bain Capital and Staples, Inc. to take any action they want in our forgiving capitalistic society. Like the miserable employee abuse in the industrial revolution, isn’t it time that corporate raiders and their hired guns in the legal community experience public rebuke and condemnation for pillaging the assets and ruining the lives of those that cannot defend themselves? If “ethics” is truly an important segment of an MBA program at Harvard or anywhere else, would it be best to simply tell our naïve college students that it’s simply a fantasy feel good lesson that is ignored in our modern 21st century? And now that the Supreme Court has given a corporation the same rights as a person to affect the election of the President of the United States, have we simply further armed those same greedy individuals and given them an even larger voice in our decision making progress? Now, with more power than ever, they will be able to rule our country and eradicate the Middle Class that our forefathers made possible for most of us. Hopefully, this coming election will not continue the country’s fatal slide that will someday find most our children becoming the servants of the rich. Americans will not be deceived by the twisted paid advertising and conservative “yellow journalism” that is disseminated in popular media. As for Staples Inc., look around and of the several thousand franchisors in every industry, you will not see one in the office products industry. It’s not an accident! Who is managing the existing anti-trust laws?

Lynn Mason Crocker had always been in great physical condition and her doctors at both Sturdy Hospital and Corrigan State Hospital clearly stated that she was “a danger to herself”. The Romanieckis and Faucher’s Family all knew of her grave condition. Who else denied her the medical help she, herself, knew she needed? Were the new found riches presented to them by the decadent founders of Staples, Inc. more important than Lynn’s life? How did this very young woman really die? Was it murder?

Len Faucher, today, resides in Houston with his wife and owns a new business. Faucher is also an adjunct professor at Houston Community College where he teaches in the business department.

Memorialized picture of Lynn Mason Crocker on Facebook.