Michael ( Mick) Webster Michael ( Mick) Webster publishes the oldest online newspaper the "Laguna Journal". Mr. Webster's Syndicated Investigative Reports are read worldwide, in 100 or more U.S. outlets and in at least 136 countries and territories. He publishes articles in association with global news agencies and media information services with more than 350 news affiliates in 136 countries. He served as a trustee on trade Union funds. He is a business investor & consultant. A noted Author, Lecturer, Educator, Emergency Manager, Counter-Terrorist, War on Drugs and War on Terrorist Specialist, Newspaper Publisher. Radio News caster. Labor Law generalist, Teamster Union Business Agent, General Organizer, Union Rank and File Member Grievances Representative, NLRB Union Representative, Union Contract Negotiator, Workers Compensation Appeals Board Hearing Representative. Mr. Webster represented management on that side of the table as the former Director of Federated of Nevada. Mr. Webster publishes the following on-line newspapers: www.lagunajournal.com www.smallbusinessjournal.com www.prospectorsjournal.com www.indiangamingjournal.com www.elpasojournal.com, and does investigative reports for print, electronic and on-line News Agencies. Mr. Webster is America's leading authority on Venture Equity/Debt Funding,( Venture Capital by Michael Webster (Author) Trustee on some of the nation’s largest trade Union funds. He is the author of “Venture Capital” and four other new best sellers list. He has helped top executives, average investors and entrepreneurs find capital for start-up and expansion projects and show clients how to maintain and preserve that capital.
Mr. Webster is known and highly respected as a Safety Consultant. Some resent projects he has worked on include 3.0 billion LA County Metropolitan Transit Authority Senior Safety Specialist Purple Line – West Side Extension. $2.7 billion LAX People Mover project. Emergency Manager for Federal Emergency Management (FEMA). He continues to receive confidential calls (questions) from various government (not just U.S.) officials, General Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Builders, Corporate Staff members and Business Owners.
Mr. Webster was a very early advocate that the Indian Nations create and develop Indian Casinos. The purpose and aim was helping to improve the living conditions and the lives of American Indians on reservations. Starting with the Mescalero Apache “Inn of the Mountain Gods” in the state of New Mexico where he served as Head Of Safety.
Mr. Webster has been called the Jack London of finance for his ability to cut through the icy myths and mysteries surrounding the world of financing and putting deals together and lead entrepreneurs successfully into the 21st century. Mr. Webster's experience spans over three decades and includes being on the board of several renown organizations & associations. He is also the author of, the Christian Covenant, the RedRoad, the LemonFast and the United States Civil Defense Emergency Training Manual.
Mr. Webster has Collaborated on a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) course having over 300 plus pages with color text and full color power point presentation. (Survival Family Emergency Response & Preparedness Guide ).
Mr. Webster was the founder in the 1960’s and 70’s of “Paramedic’s On Call” and was one of the earliest providers of Emergency Paramedic services in the nation and become known as the Father of emergency care and transportation of the sick and injured. He was also directly responsible for Doctors to be on site in hospital emergency rooms throughout E Paso for the first time ever, when up until that time Doctors were not in the emergency rooms at the hospitals but were simple on call. He appears frequently on TV and can be heard on Radio nation wide and speaks at major Safety/Financial/Terrorism conferences worldwide.
Mr. Webster instructs cities and counties home defense volunteers on FEMA'S Community Emergency Response Team course (CERT) and provides emergency planning for governments, private companies and corporations, globally. He also teaches experts how to follow the money trail of terrorist.
Mr. Webster has had business dealings with such notable financiers, professionals and entrepreneurs as, billionaires Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes; J. Paul Getty; H.L. Hunt; Founder of Circle K Corporation Fred Hervey, President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Senator Lloyd Benson, U.S. Senator John G. Tower, U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator Howard Cannon, Former Texas Governor John Connolly, Former Texas Governor Mark White, Former Governor of Alaska and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickle, former Alaska governors William A. Egan, and Keith H. Miller, Lt. Gov of Alaska and former Mayor of Fairbanks H. A. Red Boucher, U.S. Congressman Richard White, U.S. Congressman Jim Santini, Alaska State Senate President Brad Phillips, Alaska Attorney General, Edgar Paul Boyko, Texas State Representative Bill Clayton, Attorney Melvin Belli, Attorney Oscar Goodman & former Mayor of Las Vegas, Attorney Albert C.S. Ramsey, Attorney Joseph (Sib) Abraham, Attorney Joseph Morgan, Attorney Jerry Seiberling, Attorney C. Thomas McDonald, former Texas State Senator: Tati Santiesteban, Judge Woodrow Wilson Bean Sr., Judge Woodrow Bean Jr. Veteran Broadcaster David Brinkley, Wendell Chino Chief of the Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico, Labor union leaders: Harry Bridges, Jimmy Hoffa, and Alaska teamsters boss Jess Carr.
Mr. Webster is the original founder of WIB Financial Group (www.wibfinancialgroup.com , and over the years, has invited such notable investors and entrepreneurs as billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, and Donald Trump (to name a few) to participate in Mr. Webster's worldwide consortium of investors.
Mr. Webster was formerly an official with the Teamsters Union in California, Texas and Alaska.
Mr. Webster is a Venture equity/debt funder source and business consultant, Author, Journalist, Investigative Reporter, WCAB Hearing Representative, Counter Terrorist Specialist and Instructor, Emergency Management Specialist and Instructor, Sr. Safety Specialist, Emergency Medical Tec (EMT), Wildland Fire fighter and Instructor, Adventurer, Explorer, Holistic Nutritionist and Amateur Anthropologist.
Mr. Webster has been described as an entrepreneur extraordinaire and a businessperson’s businessperson. Since the tender age of 6 when he sold Spud-Nuts (made out of potatoes) door-to-door in the city of his birthplace, El PasoPaso, Texas. He was born at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, the son of a US Army Officer. Both parents, Albert A. Webster (Father) and Leona Allene Webster (Mother), said, Michael showed at a very early age an interest in commerce and became keenly involved in various businesses. He always seems to look out for the underdog, said his mother.
Mr. Webster supervised on site mitigation of life threatening emergencies including disasters and major relief efforts both here at home, and around the world. He is also active in church and civic organizations. He is the loving husband of Peggy Webster (the former Peggy Rae McDonald) and the proud father of Michael Vincent II, Heather Rae, Renee Marie, and Ronda Ruth Webster, and Vincent, Vance, and Riza Christy.
Mr. Webster’s most recent field of endeavor is that of a venture equity/debt investor, business and safety consultant.
Mr. Webster funds or finds founders for start-up and expansion businesses here at home and around the world, while retaining equity positions in many of them. Mr. Webster also provided his clients with bulletproof asset protection. He is also dedicated to journalism as a syndicated Investigative reporter. He will maintain his other interests in buying & selling businesses, workers advocate, labor relation issues, worker’s compensation, micronomics, safety, emergency management, preparedness and anti-terrorist activities. As well as teaching and sharing in those areas and disciplines. Over the years he has consulted and negotiated on behalf of his clients through five different administrations. He publishes newspapers and magazines and has been a newscaster in the electronic media. As a hearing representative for California's Workers Compensation Appeals Board he represents lien claimants and has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. He still finds in his busy schedule time to develop and write investigative reports.
Mr. Webster has served as administrative Assistant to the president of the Alaska State Senate. He was formerly Executive Director of the Alaska Independent Oil & Gas Association (A.I.O.G.A.) serving under the direction of its founder and Statesman Edgar Paul Boyko, ( the states former Attorney General). Mr. Webster was instrumental in raising bonus capital in the millions for bidding on the Alaska Northslope Oil Leases in 1968, as director of A.I.O.G.A. A.I.O.G.A. was awarded Tracks 20 & 21 estimated known value of appraxmatly $66 million each, by then Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources Thomas Kelly, as the apparent high bidders, only later to be rejected by the Commissioner. This lead to one of the largest behind the scenes legal battles ever to involve A.L.O.G.A., their lead attorneys, Edgar Paul Boyko (former Alaska State Attorney General), famous attorney Melvin Belli, and former Judge Clem Stevens who were pitted against the State of Alaska and many of the worlds biggest oil companies.
The Northslope Oil Leases ultimately lead to the development of one of the worlds richest oil fields with billions of barrels of recoverable crude oil and the construction of one of the largest man made construction projects of its time. The Alaska Oil Pipe Line over 800 miles long stretching from north to south from Prudhoe Bay at the north slope to the deep water port at Valdez, Alaska. In 1969, Alaska's oil lease sale pumped hundreds of million dollars into Alaska's economy as 179 tracts of potentially oil-rich North Slope lands were leased. Alaska and some of the worlds leading oil giants reaped billions of dollars as a result and they continue to this day.
Later that year, former State Attorney General Edgar Paul Boyko filed suit on behalf of A.I.O.G.A to stop the awarding of 33 of the 179 state oil-lease tracts. Mr. Webster handled the safety and security analysis for the Alaska pre pipeline design and the safety worker issues for the Alaska Teamsters union under the direction of Alaska Teamster Boss Jess Carr and the Alaska attorney General Edgar Paul Boyko.
There are more fields being explored, bid on, and developed even today in the largest of all our states... Alaska. The Federal Government and the state of Alaska has put aside millions of acres of pristine wilderness to protect it from further development by giant oil, gas and mining companies.
Mr. Webster as a Business Consultant represented many of the worlds independent oil, gas, and mining companies, along with some of the worlds high net worth individuals, always with an eye on conservation.
Mr. Webster says the legacy of environmental destruction left by major oil companies with their spills, leaks, explosions, and violations argues that they should not be allowed to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge unless there is a clear real need related to a national emergency.
Mr. Webster is a past or present Board Member of and/or represents over 500 companies, which distribute and market more than 10,000 products and services including health educational and training courses in Emergency Management and safety around the world.
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