This is part two of the story about the homeless looking man that is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can disprove one fact and that fact is: Charles Nordby turned Tom Raley’s company around when Raley's was going bankrupt in the early '70s. It was his expertise in the grocery business and his proven security program implemented at Raley's back in 1973 that made Raley’s the success they are today.       "There was so much external and internal theft taking place at Raley's back then,... Jak opinionator 2010-03-11T22:31:56Z 2010-03-11T22:31:56Z

I hope you Norby's will seek professional counselling some time soon. This obsession is truely unhealthy.

opinionator 2010-03-11T22:31:56Z Bodryn 2010-02-17T04:58:55Z 2010-02-17T04:58:55Z

Jack and Frank, I can very much understand the importance of this story. My dad saved the family farm during the 1930's long enough so that when he was finally forced to sell, nobody else would bid on it, and my dad's brother got it for $1. However, because my dad's mother did not get along with my mother, my dad (our family) was left with nothing. My dad had to start over at another farm a mile east. My dad seldom mentioned it but us kids suffered, being poor when my cousins were doing quite nicely. I never even got to know some of my cousins. To this day, I suffer from this injustice. For years I was angry with my dad, because he was badly affected by this. Thankfully, now I see my dad and mother for the heroic figures they were. Wish you all the best in this.

Bodryn 2010-02-17T04:58:55Z frank nordby 2009-11-07T01:43:18Z 2009-11-07T01:43:18Z

Well, having lots of knowledge about this story, I look at it like that great American movie called "It's a Wonderful Life." I am sure most people are able to recall this movie. Yes, that great American movie in which James Stewart played George Bailey-an honest hard working man whose Uncle Billy loses $8000 belonging to the business. And how greedy dishonest Mr. Potter found the money, kept the money and didn't return the money to Bailey. Dishonest Potter in his heart wanted to bankrupt Bailey and ruin his life. Then the movie shows Bailey in suicidal despair willing to throw himself off the bridge until an angel of God appears and shows Bailey how important he was and all the lives he had touched and how their lives might have turned out differently had Bailey not been born. I think everybody knows the story. Now I have to move from that great American movie to "The Great American Rip-off" article the Sacramento Union newspaper published in October of 1973 highlighting Charles Nordby while he was implementing his profit increasing program at Raley's. Nordby had no idea at the time he would be part of "The Great American Rip-Off" when Collings and Raley's were scheming to rip him off while Nordby was working 18 hours days at Raley's, catching every kind of theft imaginable and turning in reports showing where the Raley's stores were filthy, offering poor customer service and being mismanaged throughout their stores. (My image shows that 1973 article) Where would the Teel's be today had Charles Nordby not been hired by Raley's in '73? How many more people would Chuck Collings have defrauded had Charles Nordby not shown up at Raley's office door in the summer of 1973? Who would remember Tom Raley's name today had Nordby not cleaned up the tremendous cesspool of theft going on at the time, in all of his mismanaged chain of stores, while Raley was in a tumultuous relationship with second wife Joan? A wife Raley's never wanted to mention in Raley's 1989 history book. Charles Nordby filed a fraud lawsuit against Chuck Collings, Jim and Joyce Raley Teel and Raley's on November 22, 1994 laying out the scheme in which Collings and Raley's took to entice him to come and work for them. Hey check out the case file and you can see how dishonest Raley's attorney's from the law office of Downey, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer had to be to prevent Nordby from having his day in court. This dishonest law firm, representing Raley's and being Raley's voice in this matter, even had the audacity to claim in their answer to Nordby's 1994 civil complaint that basically Nordby had been harassing Raley's for 20 years. Sacramento Superior Court case #544344- read the case and you can become the 13th juror. A civil case the dishonest Sacramento Bee newspaper was very much aware of but never, and I mean never, want its readers to know about. Nordby passed away during the appellate process.

frank nordby 2009-11-07T01:43:18Z Jack Nordby 2009-11-03T20:08:59Z 2009-11-03T20:08:59Z

Thank you Jim for your comment but you can't burst my bubble. My dad was naive when it came to people he thought could be trusted. He always had the belief "innocent until proven guilty". By the time he figured out that the three men that hired him were thieves, he was ashamed of himself. Children that become victims of sexual offenders are often naive too, but we don't hold that against them do we? or call them names. But rather we pursue the criminal even more as an example to others. We sure cannot let criminals buy their way out of their crimes and justice, can we Jim? I guess you could say my dad was in a fantasy land. He was fantasizing what he was going to do with all of his bonus money. Keep in mind, he had nine children and about 30 grandchildren and he had hopes that he was finally going to be able to afford to do some things for them and their mother he never could afford to do before. You look like you are dressed for the military, Why don't we consider doing a new reality show called "A Battle Against Billionaire Criminals" First it can show Bernie Maddoff, then Allen Stanford and next Jim and Joyce Raley Teel at the Teel Family Pavilion at the Crocker Art Grand opening on 10-10-10. Oh by the way. That is my birthday too. Let's Party Jim.

Jack Nordby 2009-11-03T20:08:59Z Jim Knapp 2009-11-03T17:43:52Z 2009-11-03T17:43:52Z

Sounds like Charles Nordby was naive.... When it comes to money, never trust anyone... get it in writing. Sounds like he gave away his "profit increasing program" for almost free. And just because someone claims to be a "god fearing" Christian, don't buy it, many businessmen use this tactic...trust but verify...get a contract. This simply sounds like someone who lived in a fantasy land, one where he believed that humans are honest and good....sorry to bust your bubble... when it comes to money, they arn't.

Jim Knapp 2009-11-03T17:43:52Z