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Court for $1,700. Koral contended he had “pre-paid” for Internet service that he had yet to receive. He was not the only one.

L.D. Savage and John Colvin Wyatt both sued Gordon arid eOffice Experts in March 2008 to try and recoup their money.

“I don’t dispute that there are people who have paid for the service that haven’t gotten it,” said Gordon at the time. Gordon explained that he was having “business capitalization issues.”

Enter - Richard Shoemaker, an entrepreneur living in Amissville, who in June 2008, helped Gordon ease out of some of his troubles by investing in his business and renaming it Piedmont Broadband.

Shoemaker repaid those customers (nearly $20,000 he said) who had already made payments to Gordon but had not received service. Gordon remained with the company, but was said to have only an advisory role, according to sources.

Nothing much was heard of Gordon until this week when his name came up regarding the stay away order and his dismissal from Piedmont.

Charles Chrosniak, a technical consultant hired by Piedmont to perform a security audit said Wednesday, “We modified passwords on all the network equipment.”

“We still don’t have access to the radio equipment, Tom still has those, but we are working with the manufacturers to reset the passwords,” he explained.

Shoemaker expected to have had the system back up

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