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 General stuff  

A for-profit TG used-clothes company registered in Chicago, with addresses in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, Seattle. A subsidiary of the major Tvind operating company and agro-business Fairbank, Cooper and Lyle, which owns and operates the TG 'slave' plantations in the Caribbean and central America.

Hundreds, maybe thousands of distinctive red and white clothes bins throughout the US. We believe U'SAgain buys many of the clothes collected by Gaia (also in Chicago) and other TG enterprises, and may sell them on to other Tvind commercial companies such as Garson & Shaw, Holland House or ConMore BV. The garments generally end up in second hand clothes markets in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

 

  Company details  

Incorporated with an address in a warehouse unit at 1600 Downs Drive, Unit 8, West Chicago, IL 60185. The CEO is Mattias Wallander, a Tvind Teacher formerly connected with the IICD colleges.

Although U'SAgain is not a charity, staff enjoy a very close relationship with their fellow TG colleagues who run Gaia, also in Chicago. In fact, at the time of writing the TG staff from both Tvind enterprises were sharing a house in Algonquin, IL, known colloquially to other workers as 'the cult compound'.

  Whistleblower  

Readers write:

Interested Observer writes: There are five locations of U'SAgain in the states: Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, Chicago, Seattle. Three of the locations are owned/run by a Poul Joergensen who lives in Atlanta. He rooms with Allan Foighel, Ann Jonson, a person named Lisa, and a person named Borge. Allan Foighel runs Garson & Shaw in the states but I don't think he has a working permit or a social secruity card to work in the US. Garson & Shaw sells the product for Planet Aid, U'SAgain, and Gaia in the US and Canada. their american office is located in Atlanta. 'Interested observer', Agust 2001.

Insider writes: The nature of the business is so sloppy that one could report virtually anything in for collection and none would be the wiser. Internally, however, they are very interested in real numbers because the higher numbers are the only things that please the TG. This is why their yearly budgets are outrageously non- achievable. Not even they (heads of the these companies) are able to achieve such standards. To the government, I
am certain there are two sets of books.

I can say that they are still boldly bouncing checks as usual. The (money) laundering is all through Garson and Shaw as they supposedly buy the clothes and sell them to themselves and other customers. 'Insider', July 2003

Snoop writes: They are definitely pros at collecting clothing. The fact that they have come to this country and are no longer pretending to be a charity is a complete indictment of their organization, in my opinion. It's like their saying, " ok, you caught us, now how can we continue in a different way."

Anyway, the used clothing business is very complicated. It's pretty much smoke and mirrors unless you really know what you are doing. There is HUGE money in this business. I know for a fact together U'SAgain and GAIA collect around 200,000 pounds of clothing per week here in Chicago. Current market price for unsorted, "credential" clothing is about 25 cents per pound. That's $50,000 per week coming in the door for TVIND.

I would love to get these arrogant crooks out of town. 'Snoop', July 2003

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