The two, she said, never talked about what was going on while it was happening. After learning of the incident, Jeff and wife Elizabeth did not report the matter to police immediately. The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. EVERY DAY THE CLUB stayed closed, the Bumbs lost more money. `He drives by every day on his way to his Maverick Consulting development business in Mountain View, but he never gets off the Brokaw/First Street exit to pay a visit. Just so everyone got the point, Jeff Bumb announced to the press that he and Brian were divesting from Bay 101, and records show he eventually sold his shares for $1.4 million. Originally he was scheduled for questioning on March 10, 1997, but the old man's lawyers explained that their client was extremely ill, suffering from "severe life-threatening conditions," practically on his death bed. The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. According to Jeff, there was tremendous pressure from his father and others in the family to keep the incest a secret. Tim and George Jr. worried that pressuring state and city officials to deal Jeff back in at Bay 101 would backfire and authorities would close down the card room. It did the unthinkable: The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" He started telling people around the office that he wanted out of the family business. "What am I going to say to the vice president?" Don't Shoot: George Bumb Sr., the publicity-shy patriarch of the Bumb family and creator of the Flea Market, in a rare photo which appeared in California Today magazine in 1980. "And I told you that I loved you and you are like a father to me. (Tim Bumb, the school's director, says it was put there to save on rent. Christopher Gardner It did the unthinkable: Eight days after the molestation incident was reported to police--and one day after Jeff Bumb formally refused his father's $6.9 million buyout offer--George Bumb Sr. sent Jeff a curt typewritten memo informing Jeff that he was terminated effective immediately and had to clean out his desk before 5pm. Eight days after the molestation incident was reported to police--and one day after Jeff Bumb formally refused his father's $6.9 million buyout offer--George Bumb Sr. sent Jeff a curt typewritten memo informing Jeff that he was terminated effective immediately and had to clean out his desk before 5pm. First, Jeff tried to have the Bumb & Associates partnership dissolved after accusing his family of trying to force him out without paying him a fair price. "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" The two, she said, never talked about what was going on while it was happening. The state, still busy conducting background checks, still hadn't approved the Bumbs and their partners' gaming licenses. Jeff was also getting word from his nieces and nephews that his father said at a family poker game: "If it was up to him, all the grandchildren would marry each other." Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." The dolphin fountain at the front entrance is there because he wanted it there--water and fish are good luck. That promised to be a hard sell to the San Jose City Council, which would have to authorize both the new site and the expansion. PRSE Greenside Dr. SAN JOSE, CA2000-2019. Christopher Gardner The state, still busy conducting background checks, still hadn't approved the Bumbs and their partners' gaming licenses. He also pulled off an armed robbery of the Aloha Roller Palace. Near the end Venzon writes, "They want to bring up the 'murder-for-hire' investigation again. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. During the Venzon investigation, San Jose police dug up an old file from November 1990 in which Venzon, a sheriff's deputy, had reported his department-issued Smith & Wesson 9 mm automatic stolen. In response to Jeff's legal attacks, George Bumb Sr. and Bumb & Associates filed two separate suits of their own to collect nearly $1 million in loans and interest they claimed Jeff never paid. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I." As we do our drive-by on a Tuesday midmorning, there are more than 100 cars in the parking lot. Earlier this year, a month before Venzon was sentenced to 14 years in prison, district attorney investigator Michael Schembri closed out the Venzon case, noting in a court filing, "No new information has been uncovered relating to the murder for hire case [at the Flea Market] which our department investigated several years ago." He also disputes that such a letter was even necessary for Jeff to get licensed. As a compromise of sorts, he was debating whether he should apply for a license as a gaming-club manager instead of as an owner. Jeff Bumb later explained to the press that they didn't know partnerships were required to file such reports, and they paid the state a $1,250 fine. During his long tenure at the Flea Market, Venzon apparently developed a close relationship with George Bumb Sr. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." The court saga evolved into a battle of wills between a father--a man who wouldn't even let the Vatican tell him what to do--and his oldest son, determined to break free from the old man's grasp. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." In February 1994, nearly one year after the San Jose City Council gave Bay 101 its blessing, the state denied the Bumbs and their partners' gaming license application. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. Tim Bumb says writing a letter on Jeff's behalf would have violated the agreement with the police chief and put the club in jeopardy. When he was jailed, the desperate cop wrote a 15-page handwritten letter in pencil to George Bumb in May 1997 asking the Flea Market owner to bail him out. Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. They recorded the conversation. It's very tightknit," says Bryant, adding that the senior Bumb doesn't give interviews--ever. Even though all the lights were out, she told police that she knew it was Matthew "because the moonlight shined into the room through the large windows that faced the ocean." And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) The investigation was given a shot in the arm after the arrest of Johnny Venzon in 1997, a cop who made headlines for burglarizing homes while on duty to pay for his mounting gambling debts. And for nearly a month, they did. EIGHT MONTHS AFTER its approval by the City Council, the peach-colored Bay 101 held its "grand opening." But Jeff was confident. George Bumb Sr.'s loan-repayment demands came in July 1996, just as his oldest son and his wife were about to move to Los Gatos and break away from the family and its eastside enclave. Werner said no. Christopher Gardner She told police about at least seven other sexual encounters she had with her cousin after that. "It made you tough, made you get a thick skin." OK--we didn't get out--OK? When the Vatican eliminated Latin from the Catholic mass in the '60s, George Bumb Sr. responded by building his own chapel, named for the rebellious St. Athanasius, at the base of Mt. And then, just when it seemed as though family relations couldn't get any worse, they did. And then there's the stuff that never made it into headlines, like the alleged murder-for-hire plot out at the Flea Market. "Hell, no," George Bumb replied. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) OK--we didn't get out--OK? Within weeks, Jeff says, his six-month-old dog was dead, his cat was dead and the tires of a family car were slashed. Jeff was also getting word from his nieces and nephews that his father said at a family poker game: "If it was up to him, all the grandchildren would marry each other." But he didn't cash out. Jeff's daughter interrupted Matthew and said, "And I didn't know better. Behind the scenes, the Bumbs suspected their potential gambling competitors and a disgruntled former Flea Market employee of giving investigators unsubstantiated material to use against them. I'm on the hook for $15 million. He demanded $10 million from his brothers to compensate him for violating the purported secret Bay 101 deal. You know the school we went to?" The dolphin fountain at the front entrance is there because he wanted it there--water and fish are good luck. Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." Don't Shoot: George Bumb Sr., the publicity-shy patriarch of the Bumb family and creator of the Flea Market, in a rare photo which appeared in California Today magazine in 1980. Seven of George Bumb Sr.'s eight grown children reside in the eastside foothills within a mile or two of their father, often on the same block. "Hell, no," George Bumb replied. As legend has it, the Bumbs still send a monthly check to the widow of a former head of security who died of a brain tumor 20 years ago. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." Jeff Bumb remembers that when he was going to school at Bellarmine in the '60s, the other kids would call him things like "Bumbsy" or "Bumbo." Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. Tim Bumb says writing a letter on Jeff's behalf would have violated the agreement with the police chief and put the club in jeopardy. Tim Bumb says writing a letter on Jeff's behalf would have violated the agreement with the police chief and put the club in jeopardy. One wag refers to them as "the Beverly Hillbillies of San Jose." she said, referring to the family-run Catholic school at the Flea Market. He and his brothers had a plan, he says. Jeff Bumb says he believes that state and local investigators at the time of Bay 101's limbo were investigating a rumor that Jeff had tried to get someone killed, a charge Jeff denies. Ultimately, the charges against the older Bumb were reduced to a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, Jeff and his lawyers spent 15 months trying get his father to appear at a deposition. Now that their gaming license had been denied, a decision needed to be made--quickly. Finally, in July 1994, the state cleared Tim and George and gave them a conditional OK to let the games begin. During the Venzon investigation, San Jose police dug up an old file from November 1990 in which Venzon, a sheriff's deputy, had reported his department-issued Smith & Wesson 9 mm automatic stolen. "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" "I'm a big boy." Tim and George, under pressure from then Police Chief Lou Cobarruviaz, had already signed an agreement a year earlier that prohibited Brian, Jeff and their father from having anything to do with the card room. He demanded $10 million from his brothers to compensate him for violating the purported secret Bay 101 deal. In a statement to police, Jeff's daughter recounted how the first incident had happened the year before on the Fourth of July at a family beach house near Santa Cruz when the older boy allegedly started fondling her while she was asleep on the living room couch. he asked. He also disputes that such a letter was even necessary for Jeff to get licensed. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) He wanted to relocate and expand Sutter's Place in Alviso from a five-table card room to a 40-table one, matching the size of Northern California's largest card room, Garden City in San Jose. Or at least he thought he didn't. Tim and George, under pressure from then Police Chief Lou Cobarruviaz, had already signed an agreement a year earlier that prohibited Brian, Jeff and their father from having anything to do with the card room. Even though all the lights were out, she told police that she knew it was Matthew "because the moonlight shined into the room through the large windows that faced the ocean." Finally, in July 1994, the state cleared Tim and George and gave them a conditional OK to let the games begin. In fact, he hasn't set foot in the place since October 1995, the year he stopped talking to his father and three brothers. In fact, on the day he was arrested, records show that Venzon pawned a 14-karat-gold diamond cluster ring and a ladies' gold tennis bracelet for a total of $298 at American Precious Metals, a jewelry store at the Flea Market run by Joseph Bumb. THINGS WERE certainly simpler back in the old days, before Bay 101, when the Bumbs were known for the Berryessa Flea Market, the family-owned business started in 1960 by 75-year-old family patriarch George Bumb Sr. ALL TOGETHER, the intrafamily litigation has spanned nearly three years. She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. About 20 percent of the 130 students there are Bumb relatives.) It's like we had no life except for the family." Just so everyone got the point, Jeff Bumb announced to the press that he and Brian were divesting from Bay 101, and records show he eventually sold his shares for $1.4 million. The two, she said, never talked about what was going on while it was happening. He also pulled off an armed robbery of the Aloha Roller Palace. And Brian, the handsome and gregarious youngest brother, was in charge of day-to-day operations at the Flea Market. attorney Frank Ubhaus asked the Bumb patriarch. The Bumbs had a plenty of experience with a cash business through the Flea Market, which they've run for almost 40 years. The state, still busy conducting background checks, still hadn't approved the Bumbs and their partners' gaming licenses. Originally he was scheduled for questioning on March 10, 1997, but the old man's lawyers explained that their client was extremely ill, suffering from "severe life-threatening conditions," practically on his death bed. During his long tenure at the Flea Market, Venzon apparently developed a close relationship with George Bumb Sr. attorney Frank Ubhaus asked the Bumb patriarch. Jeff entertained offers to buy the club, the highest bid, he recalls, coming in at $40 million. Ultimately, Jeff says with resignation, he hopes I find the truth, "not my truth, not their truth, just the truth." Some improprieties did turn up: Bumb & Associates, a partnership including the four brothers and their father, had failed to file required reports disclosing more than $100,000 in political contributions made between 1989 and 1992. A FEW DAYS AFTER returning from his son's Oct. 13, 1995, military graduation in San Diego, Jeff and his wife, Elizabeth, got some appalling news: Their 14-year-old daughter had been involved in a sexual relationship with an older male cousin. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." Jeff's daughter interrupted Matthew and said, "And I didn't know better. In fact, Tim and George had to agree not to collaborate with other Bumbs on any new business venture. Whenever trouble arose at the Flea Market with city code or building inspectors, the Bumbs sent Jeff to settle things. The ensuing delay forced Jeff Bumb to lay off 600 workers he had hired. It wasn't the money, either. Initially, police filed felony charges against Matthew Bumb for having oral sex with a minor and penetrating her with his fingers. Over the past year alone, Bumb & Associates and Bay 101 have given $56,000 to now-Attorney General Bill Lockyer, the man in charge of card-room regulation. ALL TOGETHER, the intrafamily litigation has spanned nearly three years. (That thing that involved Jeff when Bay 101 was scheduled to open but didn't.)" He asked longtime family attorney Ron Werner if his brothers could write a recommendation letter for him, something state officials had told him he would need to be considered eligible for a gaming license. Finally, in July 1994, the state cleared Tim and George and gave them a conditional OK to let the games begin.

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