Paul Pantone

Paul Pantone (born 1950, Detroit) is the inventor of an alleged alternative fuel device: The GEET system. He pled guilty to securties fraud in 2004. As of January 2008 he is incarcerated in the Utah State Hospital awaiting sentencing.

The Patent

Pantone received a patent for a 'fuel pretreater', a device to render certain fuels suitable in applications where a more refined fuel was necessary before.Cite patent|US|5794601 Fuel pretreater apparatus and method ] . The patent suggests motor oil and battery acid as being among suitable feedstocks for the device.

GEET Technology

Pantone coined the name GEET short for "Global environmental energy technology" to market his devices.

Pantone has marketed both the GEET technology and classes in the installation and use of GEET technology [http://www.geet-pantone.com/pantoneclass.html] . The device itself is described as a "self-inducing plasma generator":::"Put quite simply, the exhaust heat is transferred to the incoming fuel vapor, which must be maintained in a vacuum, and the overall configuration provides a molecular breakdown within the vacuum of all of the heavier elements. Therefore, intensifying the vacuum, the speed of molecular breakdown or reaction is magnified, and less heat is required."dubious

::"The GEET Plasma unit generates several "electrical" fields at the same time while operating, some of which are in opposite direction and all are affected by the direction of mass movement as well as by the gravitational field of our planet."dubious

This theory of operation is not contained in the text of the patent.

Time-line of the court case

*October 3, 2003
**Pantone was issued a cease and desist order from the Utah department of commerce [http://www.securities.state.ut.us/dockets/03006301.pdf EMERGENCY ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE] ] . The document states that Pantone had attempted to sell stock illegally to Glenn Robertson of Quebec, that Pantone had previously been charged with "four second-degree felony counts of Securities Fraud, one third-degree felony count of Securities Fraud, one third-degree felony count of Selling an Unregistered Security and one second-degree felony count of Pattern of Unlawful Activity", that Pantone claimed in 2002 bankruptcy proceedings that he owned "a bare patent with no beneficial interest or value", and that he had transferred ownership of the GEET technology to Robert Fackrell in 2002. [ [http://www.phact.org/e/z/PantoneSecuritiesFraud.htm EMERGENCY ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST AND ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE] ]

*October 8, 2004
**Pantone pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and the other charges were dismissed. [ [http://geetfriends.net Paul Pantone Defense program] ] Verify credibility|date=July 2008

*December 12, 2005
** Judge Royal Hansen declared Paul doesn't get along with his lawyer Gil Atha of the Board of Directors of "the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association" therefore is not competent to receive sentencing and would be detained indefinitely under Utah Code 77-15-5(4-5)Utah code [http://le.utah.gov/~code/TITLE77/htm/77_15_000500.htm 77-15-5(4)(5)] ] at the Utah State Mental Hospital. [ [http://paul-pantone-court-recordings.go-here.nl/Pantone%20Court_2005%2012%2012.mp3 December 12, 2005] Court Hearing] Verify credibility|date=July 2008SLweekly: [http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=FE7B10D0-1372-FCBB-83E8C5C66C046345 The fuel injected lunatic] ] [SLweekly: [http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=6116761C-AAE6-CEB6-77341AE20933E76D Inventor Paul Pantone’s battle to escape the Utah state asylum lurches once more into the unknown] ]

Antipsychotic drugs

According to the AG’s office, the only way Pantone can be sentenced and justice can be served is if he takes anti-psychotic drugs. Pantone and his supporters fear the medications will erase his memory, turn him into a zombie—or even kill him. On Dec. 11 2007, Pantone entered a West Jordan courtroom by wheelchair. His already poor health has significantly declined due in part to an infection following foot surgery. SLweekly: [http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=17B46B9C-E4E3-74AE-F418680293CAB6E1 Judgment Day: For the subjects of three 2007 City Weekly cover stories, life has taken distinctly different turns] ]

Paul Pantone Defense Project leader George Gaboury is unapologetic. "What good is a lawyer when you’ve got a judge that is not playing fair?" he says. If they have to use a public defender, they will. "Let the man go," Gaboury pleads on behalf of the ailing Pantone.

References

External links

* [http://www.geetfriends.net/ GEET Friends]
* [http://www.geet-pantone.com GEET International Institute]
* [http://www.rexresearch.com/pantone/pantone.htm#demyst The GEET Demystified] by C. P. Kouropoulos
* [http://members.tripod.com/professor_shields/geet.htm Professor Shields] - website claiming some positive results with GEET