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- Cornerstone Technologies picked up the equipment in August 2024 but never paid, although he then provided the required certificate of destruction and recycling of data.
- The trial alleys that Cornerstone has a history of similar driving, citing a case prior to Minnesota and elsewhere.
- The district trial requests payment, damages, legal costs and a trial with jury to settle the case.
The Millcreek Township school district is continuing a Georgia company which has agreed to buy surplus technology in the district but did not pay, according to a trial brought by the American district court in Érié.
Cornerstone Technologies Inc., a technology and recycling company based near Atlanta, proposed to buy former computers, iPads and other technologies, and the district has accepted its offer. But after having picked up the equipment in early August and taking him to his establishment Norcross, in Georgia, “Cornerstone disappeared and refused to pay the equipment”, according to the trial, deposited on May 16.
Cornerstone had agreed to pay $ 75,750 and provide required documents concerning the recycling of equipment within 10 days of the collection, according to the documents provided for the trial.
Cornerstone Technologies Inc. and his chief executive officer, Bruce Manssuer, are appointed defendant in the case.
Attempts to sell and collection
The district announced offers for more than 1,000 elements of surplus technology in July and accepted Cornerstone’s offer on July 26, according to the trial.
In addition to computers and iPads, technology included printers, mobile phones, thermal cameras, monitors, mooring stations, view cards and esports machines.
After the months spent without payment received and no “significant communication” from the company, the District Information Technology Director sent an email to Manssuer on December 12 to demand payment within seven days, according to the trial.
Manssuer replied that he would examine the question. And on January 21, Cornerstone sent an e-mail to the district The promised certificate of destruction and recycling of data agreeing to keep the harmless district of complaints, liabilities and potential proceedings resulting from the collection and recycling of the equipment.
But no payment was received at the time or after repeated requests, depending on the trial.
“Long history of governments’ fraud”
Cornerstone Technologies was ordered to pay public schools from Rochester to Rochester, Minnesota, nearly $ 250,000 “for almost identical driving”, according to the Millcreek trial, in September 2024 following a prosecution filed in Minnesota.
“Independent surveys have revealed many other previous cases of similar misconduct by defendants and their companies of predecessors”, according to the trial of the school district of the canton of Millcreek, which cited a 2021 Industry recycling article On corporate relations with the state of New Hampshire and other governments.
“This long scheme of misconduct suggests that the conduct of defendants in this case was deliberate, malicious and recklessly indifferent to the rights of others,” according to the Millcreek trial.
Cornerstone Technologies, on its websiteAlternately describes the company as “safe”, “secure” and “reliable” to provide “a series of IT assets management services, designed to ensure that your data and technologies are properly managed and recycled”.
Manssuer did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Erie Times-News on May 19. The company will be able to respond to district complaints before the court.
Recovery requested
The Millcreek’s trial asks the court to order Cornerstone to pay the $ 75,750 that he agreed to pay for the equipment, as well as accidental and punitive damages, legal costs and “any other reparation than this court just judges”.
The district also requests a trial before jury to plead its allegations.
It is represented by the law firm Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett.
Contact Valerie Myers in vmyers@gannett.com.