Former NBA star helps Hanes celebrate Champion Day
Jalen Rose, sports analyst forABCIESPN, hosts the Champion Day fashion
show at the HanesBrands headquarters in Winston-Salem on Friday, Oct. 9.
Photos by Tevia Sunson
John Marsh, president of Activewear, introduces Jalen Rose during the
Champion Day fashion show on Friday, Oct. 9.
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Former Michigan great
Jalen Rose, one of the cov
eted "Fab Five," intro
duced new brand apparel to
more than 200
Hanesbrands employees.
The retired NBA star
turned-sports-analyst made
a stop at the Hanesbrands
headquarters here to host
the Champion Brand
Fashion Show.
He spent 13 years in the
NBA. However, he is best
known for being on the
first team in NCAA history
(1991) to start five fresh
men.
During his visit. Rose
said he started working
with Champion because
the brand is well known
and has been making qual
ity products for years.
Since 1919 Champion
athletic wear has offered a
full line of innovative ath
letic apparel for men and
women. Hanesbrands ath
letic wear focuses on per
formance, lifestyle, and
team athletics.
The company has been
credited with inventing the
sports bra, cotton football
practice jerseys, reversible
T-shirts and hooded and
reversed-weave sweat
shirts.
"Champion is a leg
endary brand," said Rose.
"From the V-necks to the
hoodies to the sweatshirts."
He also said that he has
always been a fan of the
brand.
During "Champion
Day," employees took
advantage of discounted
shopping opportunities,
food trucks, music and a
live artist. They also were
able to get a peek at
Champion gear that is only
sold in other countries.
Hanesbrands
activewear president John
Marsh said he was excited
to have Rose host the fash
ion show.
"We are extremely
excited to have Jalen a part
of Champion Day and host
our first fashion show," he
said. "Jalen's successful
career embodies
Champion's commitment
to authentic and innovative
apparel."
After the event. Rose
held a meet-and-greet ses
sion, signing autographs
and taking photos with
employees.
A number of employ
ees talked about how they
felt about Champion Day.
"This event was a great
idea," attendees expressed.
"Events like this make you
enjoy coming to work. It
lets us employees know
that the work we do doesn't
go unnoticed."
Attorney alleges fraud in clerk's office
Fraud
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attorney Thompson was
responsible for managing
the ward's over $1.4 mil
lion in liquid and real estate
assets. But in the Oct. 20
lawsuit, attorney Alston,
representing Calvin
Brannon - Mary
Thompson's brother and
the estate administrator
representing next of kin -
maintained that attorney
Thompson had no legal
right to oversee the estate
because there was never
any evidence of the ward's
incompetence presented
(which is required in order
for an estate guardian to be
appointed by the Clerk in
North Carolina), a key ele
ment in determining the
legal reason for a guardian.
Without that evidence,
attorney Thompson should
never have been appointed,
the lawsuit
contends. But
in addition, the
orders issued
by the Cleric's
Office declar
ing Mary
Thompson as
incompetent,
and attorney
Thompson as
her legal estate
guardian, were
never officially
filed into the
court record
via time stamp,
as legally
required.
"The order
is devoid of any stamp-tne
or other marking necessary
to indicate a filing date,
and therefore it was not
entered," ruled the N.C.
Court of Appeals in a
February 4,2014, decision.
And in addition, as
attorney Alston contends in
the lawsuit, attorney
Thompson's May 1, 2007,
appointment as estate
guardian came before the
Clerk's May 3,2007, Order
of Incompetence, which
could not stand given that
the ward had to be legally
determined incompetent
first before any guardian
could be assigned.
Forsyth County Clerk
of Superior Court Susan
Frye apparently took that
February 2014 appellate
court ruling to heart. On
April 9, 2014, she issued a
"Findings of Fact" in the
Mary Ellen Thompson
case, acknowledging per
the appellate decision that
"... the orders were not
properly entered...," thus
creating "... an inadvertent
defect..."
However Frye, who
was re-elected to her sec
ond-term in November
2014, decided she could
deal with that 7-year-old
"inadvertent defect" by
simply declaring that the
orders could be belatedly
entered per the legal princi
ple of nunc pro tunc, which
is Latin for "now for then,"
meaning that if a court
makes a mistake in a previ
ous order, it can correct it
subsequently.
She ordered all of the
orders to be re-entered
under their original dates
nunc pro tunc, except the
order authorizing attorney
Thompson to become the
ward's estate guardian. On
that one, realizing the con
flict of dates, she had that
changed from May 1,2007
to May 3, 2007, to match
the original date of the
incompetency order.
But the ward's estate
attorney, Reginald Alston,
apparently already aware
that Clerk Frye would
attempt to dodge the appel
late court findings,
opposed Frye's coming
order in his April 1, 2014,
motion to Superior Court,
writing, " Counsel objects
to the nunc pro nine filing
of the May 3, 2007 Order
of Incompetence in this
matter as an attempt to
legitimize the fraudulent
actions of Bryan
Thompson and [former
assistant Clerk] Theresa
Hinshaw, and protects the
interests of the Court as
opposed to those of Mary
Ellen Brannon
Thompson."
Hinshaw is the official
in the Clerk's Office in
2007 who attorney Alston
alleges "colluded" with
attorney Thompson in the
issuing both defective
orders in the Mary
Thompson case.
Clerk Frye's order was
eventually appealed and
subsequently found to be
procedurally improper by a
Superior Court judge. It
was sent back for a hearing
in the Clerk's office.
In that same April 1,
2014, motion by Alston, he
stated that,"... counsel has
previously raised the issue
a
of fraud and collusion by
Clerk Theresa Hinshaw
and Bryan Thompson in
regards to this special pro
ceeding and estate and
other similar cases in
Forsyth County."
Alston further said in
his motion that Clerk Frye
"refused to accept the doc
uments marked for trial as
Exhibit H and consisting of
a listing of [over 40] Estate
matters in which Bryan
Thompson was handling
the estate."
Attorney Alston went
on to state that "... as part
of my investigation of the
alleged fraud, I pulled the
Estate files for several indi
viduals whose estates had
been handled by Bryan
Thompson..." Each case
had a special proceeding
regarding an estate where
Bryan Thompson was
appointed, Alston contin
ued, and, "That none of the
cases had a
I i i e a -
stamped
order of
incompe
tence nor
filed
stamped
order
appointing
anyone
guardian of
the Estate or
Person."
Alston
went on to
list four
cases by file
numbers that
he personal
ly reviewed
to document his allegation,
and then stated a reason he
believed the pattern even
existed.
"...[CJounsel believes
the failure to file stamp the
Orders was utilized as a
means to prevent removal
of the guardians and facili
tate Bryan Thompson ... to
fraudulently maintain the
position of guardian with
out properly filed Orders
authorizing [his] actions."
In a previous motion
before the court dated
March 31, 2014, attorney
Alston was blunt, stating,
"That the issuance of let
ters to Brian Thompson by
[Clerk] Theresa Hinshaw
without a properly filed
Order of Incompetence
was not an error or unique
circumstance, but an act of
fraud that has been repeat
ed in other special proceed
ings in Forsyth County and
evidences a pattern and
practice of fraudulent
activity by the Clerk's
Office."
Months later, in
October 2014, Mary Ellen
Thompson, who had been
in ill health, died. But even
though it had been clearly
S
established before her
death that Bryan
Thompson's estate
guardianship was in con
troversy, no relief was
forthcoming.
"Between May 1,2007
and October 2, 2014,
Bryan Thompson did not
return the assets that he
took by fraud from Mary
Thompson valued at $1,
486, 415.49," attorney
Alston alleges in the
estate's Oct. 20 lawsuit.
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The suit seeks compensa
tory and punitive damages
from,.. the Clerk's bond
in the amount of all proper
ty value that [the ward] lost
due to Bryan Thompson's
acts and the regulatory fail
ures of the Clerk of Courts
in an amount that exceeds
$25,000."
The lawsuit also seeks
compensatory and punitive
damages from two insur
ance companies on the
bond issued to protect
Mary Thompson's assets as
required by law; and two
other attorneys for their
alleged roles in what the
suit maintains was a case
of fraud.
Finally, the suit seeks
all of Mary Thompson's
assets returned to the
estate, and to hold attorney
Bryan Thompson liable.
Defendants had not
responded to the Mary
Thompson estate lawsuit
by press time.
"Between May 1,2007
and October 2,2014, Bryan
Thompson did not return the
assets that he took by fraud
from Mary Thompson
valued at $1,486,415.49."
-Estate attorney Reginald Alston,
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