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Contents 1 Disputed 2 Blocked 3 Proper referencing 4 Article editing 5 Poor lonesome Lou Pearlman 6 Cleared of allegations 7 Pearlman disappears 8 Article is a Mess (again) 9 German Pearlman shills invasion 10 Planet Airways

[edit] Disputed

This article is:

- not written from a neutral point of view and contains both explicit and implicit opinion
- faintly racist
- contains improper English and is badly structured
- libellous
- in need of detail citation

• Any hate content about Lou Pearlman will be removed as it is found.

• So will obvious advertisements or glorifications. Let's try and make it a well-balanced article. He is an interesting phenomenon with good, but also some controversial aspects to it. This cannot be denied.

• Nex day, June 13. Another copy&paste job by User:65.14.5.2 from Talent Rock office network. He does not even try himself to give his own version of what really happened, he just deletes other's. Mark, do you consider my contribution about the last four years "hate content"? If so, would you please explain what bothers you? User 82.73.143.81 Klaas.

• The content I keep putting up is the only content I will allow unless you have something that's not negative that you would like to add, Klaas. In my article I talk about Lou pearlman's run in with the Backstreet Boys, but all this business about Talent Rock being a scam is all false information. TalentRock 20:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• It wasn't just the Backstreet Boys that had issues with Lou Pearlman's questionable business practices, but *NSYNC as well. I've added that legal dispute to this page as well, as it was reported on VH1. I've kept the entry as objective as possible, but personally, I can think of absolutely no justification for taking over ninety-seven percent of a recording artist's net profits. If Lou expects a cut that enormous, he'd better be onstage singing with the rest of the artists! - M.Neko

• mikka this battle between Klass, Lou Pearlman and a few others has been going on for a few years now. Klass is only targeting Lou Pearlman's Wikipedia page for search engine leverage. TalentRock 20:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• False information? Search engine levering? I am only pointing to information that has been in the independent press. Never to my own site, nor to other sites who are Mr Pearlman's targets. You are only trying to leave out (is in fact falsify) historic facts. I request a permanent ban for mr Tolner, (User 65.14.5.2) and any other distorting contributors like this. I welcome any further improvement of the article, also if in favor of Pearlman. June 16. User 82.73.143.81 Klaas.

• Klass, first off I am not Mark Tolner. Mark Tolner was let go back in early 2005. Talent Rock is also not a talent scouting company nor a talent agency. "Talent Rock is a company that hosts talent search events. These events provide opportunities for aspiring actors, models, dancers, comedians and singers to network with more than 100 industry professionals, learn about the entertainment business through industry workshops and compete for a share of more than $100,000 worth of sponsored prizes." There is nothing more to Talent Rock then that. That's is why I will only allow people to post negative information about the whole Backstreet Boys mess and not negative Talent Rock press. You like a few other people have a few serious misconceptions about Talent Rock because of some of the people that worked for Talent Rock in the past. On a side note I am going to let some of the links you just posted stay, but most of the content you just added will be removed again. TalentRock 20:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for trying to make a start. We could try to communicate, although it seems you still fail to understand you can not play boss here. Quoting: "I will only allow", "I am going to let ... stay", "will be removed again", never once signed a message. First I'd like to know to some extent with whom I have the pleasure. No name if you don't want to (mine is a nom-de-plume). What is your function with Talent Rock? Are you here as a company representative? User 82.73.143.81 Klaas. 17:00 GMT+1, June 17 2006 (UTC)

• You can sign your posts by simply typing four tildas: ~~~~. It will be automatically converted into a signature with timestamp, like mine: `'mikka (t) 17:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• You may also write a separate Talent Rock article. Please keep in mind rules of wikipedia: the information must not look like an advertising and must be based on independent reputable sources of information. In particular, the company webpage may be used only for providing basic factual data. Blogs and personal webpages are not valid sources. `'mikka (t) 17:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• I just got done removing a few links. Here are the links and reasons why...

http://entertainment.iwon.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/10_20_2003_1.html - Iwon is not a trusted news source. I also could not find this article on the New York Post website.

the page bears copyright of NYP. I doubt it that it is a fraud. `'mikka (t) 21:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=3066 - The Orlando Weekly is not a trusted news source. It is a free weekly paper that is written mostly by local college students.

Is it printed or online-only? If the information in the articles is false, why the OW is not sued for libel? `'mikka (t) 21:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=3556 - This link was removed for the same resons as the last link.

References "Tim Barker, "Scouting network's history troubles Pearlman," Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 5, 2003" - This article was not found on the Orlando Sentinel website. TalentRock 20:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

In case of dispute why don't you contact Tim Barker for verification? `'mikka (t) 21:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• I reverted your changes. The sources are trusted, and the content never has been disputed, as far as I can see. Even though at times sites clean up their online archives, the originals are still there. 82.73.143.81 20:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Trusted by who? Can you name any large trustworthy media outlet that can vouch for them? Also can you please hold off on changing my work until the mods have a chance to look over what I did and why. TalentRock 21:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

  I may understand that you don't want links to these publications because of their nasty tone. At the same time, the corresponding statements in the wikipedia article present apparent facts, not opinions, about some legal matters. So if you don't want the current links, then you may either prove that the facts are wrong or replace by equivalent references from official sources (which would be more neutral), since this information is supposed to be public. `'mikka (t) 21:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• mikkalai, did you get the email I sent you via Wikipedia? TalentRock 17:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • May I ask who you are, and why you apparently want to discuss things secretly? Thank you. 82.73.143.81 19:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Yes I did. `'mikka (t) 17:56, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

    Mikka, I feel it would be better if this was all played openly. Or was this email containing that private and sensitive information, that it really should be hidden? I am already used to getting smeared openly on the Internet by this outfit, so I would not mind at all. 82.73.143.81 19:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Mikkalai, I'm glad you got that email. I only asked if you got it because I was not totally sure if I had sent it right. TalentRock 20:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Mikkalai, Here is a link to an article (http://www.wftv.com/news/3550420/detail.html?taf=orl) that shows that Lou Pearlman was cleared of all wrongdoings in this whole talent scouting scandal mess. Is this enough proof to have the links and content on "Talent scouting scandal" removed from Lou Pearlman's page? TalentRock 15:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
    • The scandal was a historical fact. The article already says that the criminal investigation was dropped. Removal any correct statements would amount to censorship hence inadmissible. You are always free to contest any false statements. `'mikka (t) 17:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• I did a little reshaping, left the main intention intact but cut out some more (imho)marketing hype & name-dropping, to achieve a more neutral tone of voice. Hope you can live with that, Talent Rock. 82.73.143.81 21:05, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Mikkalai, thank you for you immediate attention. You removed a phrase and explained ("is not known" is a too strong phrase. Requires quotation.) I do not agree. Anyone will be unable to find any big name that was discovered on one of Pearlmans talent events. Just try and find one. Therefor "is not known" is simply true, nothing too strong about it imho.

As one can see in the page history, the one and only reason of Talent Rock company and supporters contributing to Wikipedia, has been to spam the Talent Rock link and thus using wikipedia as a vehicle to promote their commercial business. Pearlman personally was very successfull in marketing these boy bands, but this is unrelated to his talent contests like Talent Rock. One of the major complaints against Pearlman's methods of selling the WSN/TCT, has been their falsely suggesting that Pearlman's boy bands success would imply higher chances on the same kind of success with the contests. They are only trying to do the same here. Please consider putting back the removed phrase, to illiminate this suggestion. 82.73.147.201 19:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I found another solution, by simply replacing the Talent Rock pr-gibberish by "organising talent contests". In its most neutral tone of voice it comes down to that, doesn't it. 82.73.147.201 21:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• Klaas Talent Rock is Lou Pearlman's biggest company. Just because you think it is scam does not give you the right to remove it. 65.14.5.2 16:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

This article is about Lou, not about promoting his currently most active company. There already is an access point to TR via the external link to his companies. Feel free to try and create a page on Talent Rock in a neutral tone of voice, if you can. aka Klaas de Vries Jr 18:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Mikka, please try to explain Lou being a businessman related to his being jewish. I am of jewish heritance myself, but I fail to see any connection worth mentioning between the two. In fact I feel it as being a racist POV, and this category should not be allowed to exist. I am studying the possibility to have it removed. SooperJoo 15:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

• I removed the link to... "The Gainsville Sun (October 3, 2006) Book: Crist tried to "whitewash" probe"" If you want to post information about Charlie Crist post it on his page not Lou's! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Crist 65.14.5.2 16:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

May I suggest you read the article's content? aka Klaas de Vries Jr 17:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

• Talent Rock and Trans Continental Companies are both directly affiliated with Lou Pearlman, so stop removing the Talent Rock link Klaas. TalentRock 16:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Taking into consideration your and especially your collegue 65.14.5.2 contribution history, I cannot conclude anything else than the link's intention is mainly commercial. TR is already linked from both Transcontinental Companies and Lou's personal site. I did however remove the Amazon entry to the book, which may be looked at as being not only informational. SooperJoo 19:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

There is absolutely no difference between Trans Continental Companies link and the Talent Rock link, and here is nothing commercial about them. Both companies are two totally different identities that are solely owned by Lou Pearlman. The only reason you keep removing the Talent Rock link is beacuse you think the company is a scam. It has nothing to your false commercial claim. Do I really need to point out your personal hate towards Talent Rock in order to prove my point? Enough said... 65.14.5.2 22:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I think being critical about Talent Rock's predecessors (generally acknowledged as scam, except by Pearlman and co) and keeping a close eye on Talent Rock's eventual improvements (there are some, I noticed) should not not be classified as "personal hate". Your contribution history makes your intention of spamming that link quite clear. If you are such a great fan of Pearlman, why haven't you ever tried to improve the Career part? And why did you never write a seperate article about Talent Rock, like suggested several times? Not convinced about it yourself? Or just lazy? SooperJoo 23:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Despite contribution history udner this ip, the fact still remains that that both Trans Continental Companies and Talent Rock are solely owned by Lou Pearlman. Because of this "Talent Rock" is totally relevant and attached to the Lou Pearlman name. This is why the company should be listed on Lou Pearlman's page. I am not going to write a seperate article about Talent Rock because I do not know enough about the company in order to do so, and even if I did, a link to Talent Rock on Lou Pearlman's page would still be totally acceptable uneder the Wikipedia rules. So, again the link is readded... 65.14.5.2 15:54, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Talent Rock is one of several companies owned by Lou. These companies all can be easily found and explored by entering the two links. Dropping the TR name and link is superfluous. Please stop spamming wikipedia. Thank you. SooperJoo 03:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is true that Lou Pearlman does own many companies, and via the wikipedia rules I have the right to list every company that Lou Pearlman owns because it is relevant to his wikipedia page. Lou Pearlman's two main companies are Trans Continental Companies and Talent Rock, and all of his smaller companies are subsidiaries of these two main companies. The Talent Rock link is no way wikipedia link spam, and I would highly suggest you stop removing it before you get banned from editing this page. Thank you, Mr. Klaas. 65.14.5.2 19:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

By whom? To request Arbitration, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. SooperJoo 00:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Dear 65.14.5.2. Whining at Talk:Discospinster about our disagreement, you wrote: "User SooperJoo keeps removing a highly relevant links and content on Lou Pearlman's page. The only reason he keeps removing the link and editing Lou Pearlman's page is because of his personal hate for Lou Pearlman. As an employee of Lou Pearlman's I can tell you that we have a court order against SooperJoo a.k.a Klaas de Vries Jr that keep him from publishing information about Lou Pearlman (we can send you the court documents if needed). Our legal team is also in the process of contacting the people that run Wikipedia to get a permanent of Mr. Klaas's ip address. While we wait on our legal team is there anything you can do to help us stop this guy from publishing false information and removing relevant links?". The legal document you are referring to is being published on mr. Pearlman's smear sites for more than two years now. I never have been approached about it, not even an email. My current IP number is 82.73.147.201, my long known computer ID is cc24591-b.groni1.gr.home.nl . About a year after the document was published, Fashion Rock requested another half year delay (which was miraculously granted by Pearlman's judge) because purportedly it was a problem to have it translated into Dutch. LOL, anybody can have that done within two weeks! The explanation for this peculiar behavior is simple. The suit is completely frivolous (several others have called Pearlman's talent search companies 'scam', but were never sued), and all mr Pearlman's lawyers intend to do, is to stretch and stretch proceedings in order to hurt mr Henderson financially. Lou Pearlman picked the wrong guy to sue and will lose both cases, no doubt about that. My work on this Wikipedia article consists of well-sourced NPOV. I challenge you to try and do the same. You can't. Because all you have is PR gibberish and lies. SooperJoo 07:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

What you just said makes my case against you even stronger. You are totally obsessed with making both Lou Pearlman and Talent Rock look bad, and you will stop at nothing to get your way. You and Les Henderson are the only two people that think Talent Rock is a scam. Talent Rock is in no way, shape or form a scam! Talent Rock is the most recognized and well respected talent search event of it kind in the world. Yes, back before Mr. Pearlman owned Talent Rock and the company was called Fashion Rock there were a few problems. This was back when Mark Tolner and Alec Defrawy owned and operated the company, not Lou Pearlman. When Mr. Pearlman stepped in and bought off the company he got rid of Mr. Tolner and Mr. Defrawy, and recreated Fashion Rock into the company it is today. This is why the name was changed from Fashion Rock to Talent Rock. If anything you should be thanking Mr. Pearlman for stepping in and stopping Tolner and Defrawy. But, no you and Les Henderson did the complete opposite. You kept targeting Mr. Pearlman because he is a brand name and a much larger target in the public eye. Know one in the real world knows the names "Mark Tolner" and "Alec Defrawy", but by attaching them to Mr. Pearlman you got much more attention. I tip my hat to you for coming up with a great way to market your cause. Now, being rich, powerful and kind of a celebrity (in some people eyes) comes with its fair share of crazy lawsuits from time to time. For example, look at Donald Trump and your favorite new movie star Sacha Baron Cohen. Just look at how many crazy lawsuits both of these guys are being slapped with. Do their Wikipedia pages focus on every little lawsuit they are involved in? No they don't! All of the information that you are referencing to (other than the boyband stuff) has been tossed out of court. The only two reasons why you are posting negative and hurtful information about Mr. Pearlman's page is because of your personal hate towards him, and to help aid your buddy Les Henderson in his book sales. We do have a court order that states that you can not publish any information about Lou Pearlman and Talent Rock, but because you are not in the United States it is much harder for us to stop you from doing what you are doing, lucky you. You can be rest assured that once our legal team does get in contact with WikiMedia you will never be able to edit Mr. Pearlman's page again, so feel free to post away while you still can. I'm not going to remove any of you wonderful hate content anymore, but I will keep adding a link to Talent Rock. It is a totally valid and relevant link that is attached to Lou Pearlman's name, and it is in no way spam. Sooner or later a mod will stop by and block you for censorship, so you just keep on removing that link for your own personal reasons. 65.14.5.2 20:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

My good man, where in the world did you get all this factual nonsense about the history of Lou in the talent scouting business? You wrote you could not write a seperate page about Talent Rock because you did not know enough about it (being an employee and all), and I must agree to that, lol. And oh yes, I have called TR a scam and a ripoff several times, with good reason. But if you can find TR or FR mentioned on mr Henderson's site, or one remark he made about these companies, I'd be obliged if you'd show the proof. SooperJoo 21:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

You just said yourself that the information is factual, but you see it as factual nonsense. The United States Court System found Mr. Pearlman to be totally innocent on all charges, and the entire case was tossed out of court. I'm sorry if you don't agree with the ruling, but the fact still remains that Mr. Louis J. Pearlman indeed innocent. I get my information from the same places that you do, various press releases, websites and court documents. You just focus all your efforts on false negative allegations from the past, where I tend to focus on what is really true about Lou Pearlman. This is why I am fighting to get you banned from Wikipedia. On a side note, I am an employee of Lou Pearlman's but I do not work directly with or Talent Rock. I work for a smaller subsidiary company that falls under the Talent Rock umbrella. 65.14.5.2 22:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, you got your TR link at last. You may have tried to spam it on impropriate places, but one cannot consider this page as being impropriate for this link, oke. I have to admit it has been my intention to provoke you guys into making unthoughtful actions & rubbish statements, which was easy to achieve (thanks, lol). Look buddy, all that counts on Wikipedia are the plain facts (well-sourced and described from a NPOV) in the article. My contributing so far has only been a start, many more biographic facts are to follow. Good luck with your future contribution efforts. SooperJoo 19:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Please discuss your disagreements in the article talk page. Please sign your messages in the talk page. Please get yourself familiar with other basic editing policies in wikipedia:Welcome page. `'mikka (t) 15:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

User:65.14.5.2 blocked (24hours) from editing for censorship of Lou Pearlman article. `'mikka (t) 19:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I have to block User:65.14.5.2 for some time for violating the wikipedia policy that prohibits multiple reverts, see WP:3RR. Please take your time and read other wikipedia polcies, if you want to contribute. `'mikka (t) 15:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper referencing

All adverse information must be thoroughly backed by references, since it is the most probable target of dispute. `'mikka (t) 16:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article editing

I have no idea neither desire to know rights and wrongs here (I am SO far from any culture biz), but I will not allow arbitrary deletion of facts that backed by references. If someone believes that a particular statement in the article is false, please explain why in the talk page. The arguments like "hate content" and "advertisements" are invalid. The only criterion here is "true/false" based on the policy wikipedia:Verifiability.

If someone feels that the article looks nonbalanced towards "hate", please add facts that may be considered success, but not delete negative facts. If there is nothing much to say positive, well, then Lou cannot be helped. `'mikka (t) 17:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

mikkalai you will find that Lou is about 50/50. Lots of people started to hate him after the whole Backstreet Boys thing, but on the other hand lots of people love him for all his other works. I personally do not know Lou Pearlman, but I do know everything that is a fact and everything that is not. Unfortunately there are a few false facts made about Lou even from trusted new sources, but then again that comes with the territory when you have some fame and you work in the entertainment Industry.

I am well aware that in making money it is often impossible to be "a jolly good fellow" for all and I have no problem with this. But you did not read carefully what I wrote: please explain in this talk page which exactly statements in the article are wrong. This is the rule of wikipedia. Otherwise I will unfortunately have to block you from editing. Also, please sign your posts in the talk page. `'mikka (t) 19:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Fare enough I will get that done on Monday for you mikkalai, but for now I'm out of here... Have a great weekend.

• mikka, on the subject of editing, I dint realize you're a mod until I read here; the edits I made were just the general stuff I do all over the place, fixin' links, rmving blatant POV terms (like, say, 'internet smear campaign'), so I trust you'll find them within policy. Don't mean to interfere, just doing wikipedia :) Amazing how contentious this rather obscure little page is. Not exactly Freemasonry, but more edit war than I expected to find! Eaglizard 22:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

• User:65.14.5.2 Just goes on blanking pages, spamming the commercial Talent Rock link and intends to keep on doing that. See latest addition to his/her Talk page. How about an IP block at last? 82.73.161.13 16:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

User:65.14.5.2 blocked for one month for disruption of wikipedia. The account has already been blocked twice for exactly same behavior previously. `'mikka (t) 17:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for addition. New fact to be added at the end of the article: One of the critics that are targeted by Lou Pearlman (Canadian consumer-fraud author Les Henderson (reference to http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Delivered/trans_continental.htm)) has published a book about the Wilhelmina Scouting Network affair, entitled "Under Investigation". (Reference to ISBN: 0968713335 ) 82.73.161.13 16:49, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

About resignation Jacqeline Dowd as assistant AG: there are speculations about it on boards, but no official reason was ever issued. Recently ms Dowd stated that she still is unaware of the true reasons. The mentioned judgement against Henderson ( a socalled Clerks Default, obtained by Fashion Rock lawyer by misleading the clerk)) was overturned by the judge last 18 september, due to it being a "clerks error". It took the judge two (!) years to reach that conclusion. SooperJoo 14:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poor lonesome Lou Pearlman

Dear Lou. Got a biography on the famous renown Wikipedia, but it seems about the only one that has made valid contributions to it is me, lol. All other contributants (your "fans", employees and an obvious nutcase) have shown nothing but behaving like vandals. Speaks volumes about how they feel about you, doesn't it? Is this called love? Or do they really fear & hate you? --SooperJoo 17:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleared of allegations

Even if Pearlman was cleared of any allegations against him, those claims were still reported widely in the news and do belong in an encyclopedia article about him. ... discospinster _talk 19:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pearlman disappears

Check out this story at the Orlando Sentinel. Pearlman has skipped town.[1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yeago (talk • contribs) 15:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Article is a Mess (again)

Ok, the last section (current events, I guess?) has become 2x larger than the rest of the article. Is anybody else editing / rewriting this article (as the tag would indicate)? Wow but it needs it! Eaglizard 20:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Eaglizard, I guess the section should be cleaned up some day soon. However, the case is quite fresh and having this extensive list of press articles is still quite handy at the moment. I suggest we wait until pace of events is slowing down. --SooperJoo 11:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German Pearlman shills invasion

Reverted changes by 213.54.180.142 and 85.212.79.188 (both located near to each other south of Frankfurt am Main, Germany). One of them (Hodel) removed my NPOV contribution from the German Wiki about Lou, and the other (an admin, Geisterbanker) banned me. Purportedly for the use of 'bad German', but their actions here show the true reason once again, namely their being Pearlman shills. --SooperJoo 11:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Reverted interwiki "fraud" links removal by Pearlman shills again. I did not place them, but I think they are perfectly appropiate, since Pearlman is pulling his frauds also outside the US. --SooperJoo 16:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki language links are meant to link to the same article in other languages. If there are no Lou Pearlman articles in other languages, then there would be no such links on the page. ... discospinster _talk 17:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, it says: Interlanguage links are links from an article in one Wikipedia language to the same subject in another Wikipedia language. Which is not the same as the same. I'll check 'm out. There is f.i. an article I know of in the German wiki. --SooperJoo 17:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I see what you meant. Kind of googleslander. Although the word is very apropriate to describe Pearlman's crimes, of course. --SooperJoo 18:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Planet Airways

Adapted editorial remarks by User:X-Aviator and moved them from article to this page

"[Removed due to non-factual content: Planet Airways never operated as Trans Continental in any capacity. Planet Airways was a non-affiliated, separate company of which Pearlman owned a minority percentage and was never involved operationally. Planet Airways' clients included the US Marshall Service, the Department of Forestry, and the US Department of Defense; see following references for confirmation. Trans Continental Airlines was an aircraft LEASING company that allegedly leased jets to only major world airlines and allegedly flew limited charter flights for high profile entertainers.] [2][3][4]"

--SooperJoo 14:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)