Boulder-Springs (ANS) With the season's first heavy snow upon us, the Journal is closely monitoring Damien Holdings with regard to a story we ran last October about hotel kickbacks.  The State Attorney's office is also interested in the Damien Grade policy requiring employees of Damien Holdings and BeriCraft Aviation to book hotel rooms at their own expense to ensure that they are on time for work.

A major question around this tough policy is speculation that Damien Holdings receives a kickback in the form of a percentage of each room booked by an employee complying with the policy.  We'll have more news as we follow the incoming snow.

Boulder-Springs (ANS) - Damien Grade, chairman of Damien Holdings, and ranked in the world's top twenty wealthiest people, was accused this morning of a hotel kickback scheme that affects more than 1,000 employees of Damien Holdings and Bericraft Aviation.  This comes just two weeks after an internal BeriCraft memorandum on winter attendance policy was leaked to the media.
The policy requires BeriCraft employees to acquire hotel rooms near either BeriCraft's Solace Creek facitilies or Damien Holdings' downtown offices to ensure attendence during severe winter weather.  Initially, the directive, although harsh on the surface, was somewhat mitigated by Damien Holdings' tough negotiations with surrounding hotels for employee discounts.
This morning, an unnamed operations manager of one of the hotels, provided the Journal with a copy of a memorandum which instructs the hotel's accounting department to issue a "rebate" to Damien Holdings in the amount of 7% of the total hotel bill.  Colorado hospitality insiders are calling it the "Damien's wife needs a new Maybach" tax.