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Politics
5:24 pm
Thu May 16, 2013

Koster wants to track ex-Mamtek CEO with GPS

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Missouri prosecutors want a judge to let them keep closer tabs on the former head of a failed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly.

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5:17 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Moberly Monitor-Index: City of Moberly dropped from Mamtek case

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Earlier this week, KBIA told you the City of Moberly has paid at least $677,000 in court fees since the Mamtek sucralose factory failed in 2010, including at least $60,000 in fees so far in April. Today, the Moberly Monitor-Index is reporting the city and its development authority have both been dismissed from a case being brought against them by Mamtek bondholders.
The MMI has just been informed that the City of Moberly and the Industrial Development Authority for the City have been dismissed from the court litigation brought by certain Mamtek bondholders, by Judge Patricia S. Joyce.Joyce granted the City and IDA's Motion for Dismissal late Thursday,
Crime
5:06 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

Former CEO of Mamtek released from Mo. jail

Credit Kristofor Husted / KBIA
Mamtek was supposed to set up shop at this site in Moberly.

The former CEO of a failed artificial sweetener facility has been released from a Missouri jail after posting $10,000 bail while awaiting trial on theft and fraud charges.

Officials at the Randolph County jail say Bruce Cole was released Monday. He faces one theft charge and four counts of securities fraud stemming from the financial collapse of a Mamtek U.S. facility in Moberly in 2011.

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PM Newscasts
4:53 pm
Tue March 26, 2013

Newscast for March 26, 2013

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Missouri House rejects Democratic effort to expand Medicaid
  • Mamtek CEO makes bail
  • Rep. Hartzler and Mayor McDavid call for funding to keep airport tower open
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