Patriot Oil And Gas, A.k.a. The Patriot Energy Group with Don Cunningham Dale LindseyDonald Burks Company Tax ID on 2/27/13: 45-3973710 Took $35,000 to drill and test Mahalitc#1 well API no. 42-089-32694, never even disturbed grass then vanished Richardson Texas

Don Cunningham is a serial promoter of oil and gas investments that usually end up as dry holes or never drilled but reported as drilled. When drilling does not occur, as in my case, Don Cunningham fabricated drilling reports. GoogleEarth is putting an end to the no-drill fraud which is how I found the truth about this charlatan. Escondido Operating Inc. and Esconop.com have vanished like all such scams but I want to tell everyone about how I was defrauded. On November 8, 2012 salesman Donald Burks of Escondido Operating Inc. sold me $35,000 of interest in Escondido Mahalitc # 1 which was a "proven reserve" well to be drilled in Colorado County Texas (Mahalitc is misspelled Mahalict). I wanted to send a check but I was asked to wire the funds immediately to their bank partner United Community Bank N.A., 2100 F. M. 407, Highland Village, TX 75077-0000 Routing Number 111924127. Bank phone 972 317 9935. I learned the hard way that any bank wire demand is a red flag. I checked the Texas RRC site and a drilling permit and maps were filed for Gulfstar Properties Inc. (Operator 338735) as the operator. Submission to the RRC was 12/6/2012 with approval 12/11/2012. API number 08932694 was assigned to drill at NAD27 LAT: 29.482605 LON: -96.362411 in Colorado County in District 03. I put the coordinates into Google Earth and saw a pasture with traces of an old access road. I expected to see the site preparation unfold but Google’s rural images do not update very often. In mid-January 2013 I received a series of daily drilling reports from Don Cunningham. On Monday January 28, 2013 I received an email explaining that the target zone was reached and found to be depleted. I phoned and asked for well log reports and Don could not seem to find them. I accepted his honest effort for a dry hole and prepared to write off a total loss. I kept checking Google for updates. Finally in January 2014 I checked back to find December 2013 pictures of the site and I was shocked to find no disturbance at all: no drilling pad, tailings pond, road improvement or even evidence of heavy vehicle use. Of course Don Cunningham and his company were gone. Don’s phone at 972 671 2259, thepatriotenergygroup.com, Esconop.com were gone too. A Texas RRC GIS map search shows the well as a permitted location that was not drilled. The RRC has permit filing records and a survey but no other records for API 08932694 on well lease MAHALICT A#1. That explains the missing drill logs. I got an IDC report of the dry holefor tax purposes from the decent Patriot accountant at 972 422 7243. He said that the FederalTaxID (EIN) of Escondido Mahalitc(sic) was 870476023. I suspect that misspelling “Mahalitc” for Mahalict was a trick to make the well less traceable from Federal records to the Texas RRC database. I hope that I don’t have to explain this at an audit. I give the Texas RRC credit for keeping great online records so I could reconstruct this.