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Robert and Gladys Zimmerman have been living from hotel to hotel, refusing to use phones in fear that they are tapped. Not having spoken to their son George since his acquittal, the Zimmerman’s are unaware of George’s whereabouts. ‘If I was him, I would (stay in hiding),’ Robert Zimmerman told Walters.
The mother of Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has written a letter to the public that criticizes the justice system for her son’s arrest in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Gladys Zimmerman‘s letter was written to coincide with the one-year anniversary of her son’s April 11, 2012, arrest. He’s accused of killing Martin, who was unarmed, in February 2012.
The letter was written in Spanish and translated by her son, Robert Zimmerman. He released it on his Twitter account.
Gladys Zimmerman says the day will “forever be remembered by the Zimmerman family as the day the justice system failed us as Americans.” She describes what she calls a “false narrative” that was developed as the heavily publicized case unfolded.
Zimmerman is scheduled to be tried on second-degree murder charges in June.
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Earlier this week, George Zimmerman‘s brother, Robert Zimmerman ruffled feathers with racially charged tweets that compared Trayvon Martin to an alleged killer. But on Wednesday, the neighborhood watch volunteer’s brother sat down with CNN’s Piers Morgan to apologize for the tweets.
Zimmerman originally walked back his comments on Twitter:
I’m sincerely sorry my tweet offended many – I made a serious error in judgment abt the way it wld convey & understand why it is offensive.
— Robert Zimmerman JR (@rzimmermanjr) March 27, 2013
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By Matt DiLallo, The Motley Fool
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Friend and Fool blogger Robert Zimmerman recently wrote a post entitled, “A Proven Winner, a Likely Winner and a Dud.” While I agree wholeheartedly with his two winners, I have some issues with his calling SandRidge Energy a dud. Let’s drill down into his thesis and why I think he, and investors like him, are letting the company’s spotty past cloud its future potential.
Topping the list of criticisms is CEO Tom Ward and the eerily similar “shenanigans” (as Bob calls them) to Chesapeake Energy‘s CEO Aubrey McClendon. Now, I’ll be quite honest with you, I have my questions, too, and after hearing about McClendon’s early retirement I wondered if Ward might be next. SandRidge, with Ward at the helm, has made many of the same mistakes as Chesapeake in taking on too much debt and betting that borrowed money too heavily on a volatile commodity.
Both men have profited wildly, and in some cases questionably. It is hard to justify how Chesapeake’s Founder’s Well Program and SandRidge’s conflicted related-party transactions were completely aligned with shareholders. Meanwhile, investors have suffered as shares of both companies have crumbled.
However, the value in the company goes much deeper than management’s ability to destroy it. Bob points out that the all-in strategy to develop the Mississippian Lime will likely be the wrong one. I don’t think the numbers would agree with that.
Sure, given the recently reported poor results from SandRidge’s two royalty trusts, SandRidge Mississippian Trust I and SandRidge Mississippian Trust II there is reason to be concerned. It’s hard to spin the numbers as SDT‘s sales volumes increased just 1% due to higher natural gas production and slightly lower oil production. This led SDT to produce a 10% lower distribution per unit than was targeted. Over at SDR, sales decreased 7% due to lower oil production along with slightly higher natural gas production. That caused SDR to produce an 11% lower distribution per unit than was targeted. The key takeaway on both, oil volumes were down and gas was up, not exactly the mix you want to see on what’s supposed to be an oil-levered play. However, it is still very early in the play and, more importantly, the key metrics being reported by SandRidge are a bit more positive.
This is a company that delivered 20% reserve growth, with its oil reserves growing even faster at 35%. Further, its proved reserve replacement was up 454%. Reserves are the lifeblood of an oil and gas company, so growth here is important. Production was also up and the company expects its Mississippian Lime production to jump 72% in 2013. If you can find a company growing both production and reserves, then you’ve found a potential winner, even better if that growth is in oil and liquids.
This is a company that’s also improving its financial metrics in that core Mississippian Lime play. Drilling and completion costs dropped by 14%, or half a …read more
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