![]() The Register’s parent company, Gannett, has decreed that all news department employees making over $38,000 a year must take a week off without pay in April, in May and again in June.Ĭoming at a time of unprecedented thirst for news - news of the coronavirus, news of the economic collapse, news of the political year - this is as awful for readers as it is for reporters and editors. THE DES MOINES REGISTER, already decimated by layoffs and resignations, is in for another round of corporate-mandated cutbacks. No hearing date has yet been set for the suit. Presumably, Erickson and Theresa Lacona and another sister each has a quarter of the estate while James Lacona II and Mobley share the other quarter. ![]() But, with certain exceptions, no assets could be distributed until 2023. Neither Erickson nor Theresa Lacona could be reached for comment.Īt the time of Sally Lacona’s death, the trust called for assets to be distributed equally to the four Lacona children or if they were not alive to the grandchildren. “No comment,” he replied to Cityview’s questions. Hockenberg declined to confirm the relationships of everyone involved, declined to say who owns Noah’s Management LLC, and declined to say how Theresa Lacona has allegedly violated provisions of the trust. The grandchildren are represented by West Des Moines lawyer Louis Hockenberg. Lacona, is the aunt being accused of acting against the interest of the trust. Things apparently haven’t gone well in the family since then. Erickson of Kansas City, Mo., became the trustee. James Lacona II is the registered agent for Noah’s Management, LLC.Īfter James Lacona’s death, his sister Anntoinette M. James Lacona was a son of Noah and Sally Lacona and was the trustee of the trust from the time his parents died - Noah Lacona died in 2017 at age 93 and Sally in 2018 at age 91 - until his own sudden death from an aneurysm at age 70 last July. Lacona II of Des Moines and Tiffany Beth Mobley of West Des Moines, the children of James Lacona. Noah’s Management alleges that the trust isn’t paying expenses required by the lease, isn’t keeping beneficiaries of the trust (presumably, the grandchildren) apprised of what is going on and “has used some of the trust assets for her own benefit” while maintaining “an adversary relationship” with the grandchildren. That is owned by Noah’s Management, LLC, and the lawsuit says it operates under a lease signed in 2010. While the trust owns the land and building, it apparently does not own the restaurant business. In a lawsuit filed in Polk County District Court in March, the grandchildren also allege that their aunt the trustee “claims has been sold but has failed to provide credible evidence thereof.” ![]() And they say another aunt should be cut out as a beneficiary of the trust because she took an unspecified action challenging the trust or the Laconas’ wills. Two grandchildren of Noah Lacona - who founded the well-known and bustling Ingersoll Avenue restaurant in 1946 - are suing an aunt who is trustee of their grandparents’ trust, which owns the land and building housing the restaurant. There’s a family fight at Noah’s Ark, and it has spilled into the courtroom.
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