Joyce Raley Teel is now the owner of Raley's.  She and her husband Jim have done just about everything you can possibly think of to make sure that the public is never told the true story of her company.  She received a copy of Charles Nordby's book back in 1992, and it appears that over the last ten (10) years, she has hidden herself from his truth.  Raley's has nearly 500 lawsuits on file at the Sacramento courthouse.  They have sued individuals for some of the silliest reasons, and yet, they refused to approach Mr. Nordby and his story with a lawsuit.  In fact, Charles Nordby sued Jim and Joyce for fraud and unjust enrichment for $592 million dollars, and their only defense against Mr. Nordby was to corrupt the courts, influence the news media, and show by their silence that they are guilty of defrauding an honest man with nine (9) children.

Jim and Joyce, along with Charles Collings are probably the biggest frauds living in Sacramento.   They have lived lavous lifestyles for nearly thirty years since Charles Nordby made Raley's successful.  They have donated their fraud money to their bogus political friends.  She has polictical friends stating she is one of the most "influential" people in Sacramento.  Why?  Because she has some money?  A bank robber might claim that he has a lot of money too, but can a bank robber get others to claim that he is one of the most influential persons living in a community?

This is the only "influential" person in America that owns a chain of grocery stores with a web site like this. 

To see who in the "Teel" family benefited from Mr. Nordby's profit increasing program- 

click on the Teel beneficiaries above. "It's a wonderful life" story!

Back in April of 2002, Raley's CEO Mike Teel quit his position on a "whim."  There wasn't a public explanation, he just basically quit.  Maybe Mike got tired of all this "Charles Nordby" stuff going on.  After all, it was his dad Jim that was involved in this "Charles Nordby" stuff. Why should Mike be at the helm of a company that is embarrassing to work for?  In fact, Mike Teel, back in 1991, took Charles Nordby's son Jack (before Charles Nordby even found out about Raley's history book) out to lunch, asking Jack, "my parents are tired of the bickering, what is it going to take to bring this situation to a close?"  Jack told Mike at the time "all we want is the truth to be told."  Mike then told Jack "well, Charles Collings is a mighty prideful man...you know"  I think Mike felt after his lunch with Jack, that, how in the world does a company, that cheated an honest man with nine (9) children, come out publicly and say "Raley's, and our wonderful Christian Charles Collings cheated a man with nine (9) children who made Raley's successful?"  The Sacramento Bee newspaper and Charles Collings surely didn't want to hear that!

Awards like this are always being given to Raley's.  Joyce and Jim Teel probably have lots of friends that are associated with the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.  What a community game.   Contact them and ask them why they continue to give awards to company's that defrauded their way into success?  Also, when you click onto their web site, you will notice the law firm Downey, Brand, Seymour, and Rohwer being advertised on their site.  This is the law firm that Raley's used when Charles Nordby sued the Teels and Raley's.   Who is connected to the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce?  Below is a list of individuals that control the big game going on in Sacramento. And it is just one big game going on.  Especially when it comes to giving awards to Raley's.   Those that are on the 2003 Board of Directors to the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce represent many companies, lawfirms, and many other organizations.  It is a looooooooong list.  This list was obtained off the Sac. Met. Chamber of Commerce web site.  And by all appearances, it looks like a sham... Why are there so many people on the Board?

Chair of the BoardDenise BaumbachAT&T Wireles, 

1st Vice ChairBrice Harris-Los Rios Community College District ,  

2nd Vice Chair Flo Di Benedetto- Hunter Richey Di Benedetto & Eisenbeis, LLP 
Immediate Past Chair Directors Frank E. Almas-Aero Speed Expedited Delivery Servic

Russell Austin Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP -Bobbi Bradley Small Business Resource Center

Linda Bradley-United Airlines,  Bob Brown Sacramento- Coca-Cola Bottling

Ed Canale-The Sacramento Bee,        Mike W. Casey-Union Pacific Railroad,

Jamie Clark-Raley's Family of Fine Stores,  Linda Clifford-C.C. Myers, Inc.

Winnie Comstock-Carlson Comstocks Business Magazines ; Judith D?Amico-Wetsel-Oviatt Lumber Company

Mark Davis-American Airlines, Inc.; Janet DeZonia-Computer-Terminal Services

John Di Giusto-Boutin, Dentino, Gibson, Di Giusto, Hodell & West;  Ron Ellis-2SS.Com

Gene T. Endicott-Agilent Technologies;  Lina Fat-Frank Fat?s Restaurant, Inc.;  Loretta Franzi-Citadel Press

John E. Frisch-Cornish & Carey Commercial;  Tom Gagen-Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

Michael Galane-Hewlett-Packard Company;  Ed Glavis-Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Hospital

Jim Hartley-CH2M Hill;  Doug Harvill-Infinity Radio;  Jose Hermocillo-APCO Worldwide

Ellwood L. Jones-Capital Region Financial Group, LLC;  Warren Kashiwagi-Perry-Smith LLP

Jeff Koewler-Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer LLP;  Sheila Lamb Carroll-Sheridan & Carroll LLP

John A. Lambeth-Law Offices of John A. Lambeth;  Matt Mahood-Sacramento Metro Chamber

Emily Nack Harris-NEC Electronics;  Phil Niederberger-Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

Sam Oki-Meta Information Services, Inc.;  Robert Olsen-J.R. Roberts Corporation

Pat Orner-Transition Connection;  Bruce Parks-Tarts & Truffles;  Lisa Rose, CFE-Rose Investigations

Randy Sater-Teichert Aggregates;  Art Savage-Sacramento River Cats;  Robin Schaal-Bank of America

William Schopfer-Fund Development Associates;  Marilyn Slipe-Westfield Shopping Town?Downtown Plaza

Andy Small-Ralphs Grocery Company;  Sandy Smoley-The Sandy Smoley Group; 

Brian Strom-SureWest Communications;  John Thomas-Maloof Sports & Entertainment

Elliott Troshinsky-KCRA Channel 3 / KQCA Channel 58;  Kyriakos Tsakopoulos-AKT Development Corporation

Loretta Walker-SBC Pacific Bell;  James Wallace-Wallace Consulting;  Frank Washington-Moon Shot Communications

James T. Williams-Williams + Paddon Architects + Planners / Inc.;  Michele C. Wong-Synergex

Ex-Officio Board Members-Cary M. Adams-Emerging Technologies Institute

Pat Fong Kushida-Sacramento Asian-Pacific-Chamber of Commerce

Michael Ault-Downtown Sacramento Partnership

Larry Booth-Sacramento Area Commerce & Trade Organization

Donald R. Gerth, Ph. D.-California State University, Sacramento; Northern California World Trade Center

Steve Hammond-Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau

Susan Peters McCuen- WAVES

Richard Shaw-Sacramento Black-Chamber of Commerce

Dennis Trinidad-Sacramento Hispanic-Chamber of Commerce

Deanna Hanson-LEED-Sacramento

Yvonne Wilson-Arts & Business Council of Sacramento

The man in the above photo is Jim Teel .  It was taken back in 1974.  This was a time in Jim Teel's life when he realized what it felt like to be embarrassed about the fact that he should have been fired for his incompetency at Raley's.  Maybe, that's the impression he has on his face.  His arrogance in life was captured in Raley's history book that was published in 1989.  He stated "I have no regrets." Maybe he too has been attending Charles Collings Friday night Bible studies to be able to make a statement like this!