The following message from Roberta Fontenot was posted on the Shelter Bay Rants & Raves Facebook Page on
December 6, 2022.
From Roberta:
Dear fellow residents of Shelter Bay,
I feel the time has come for me to explain the process behind the decisions I have made over the past few
months. I have kept quiet because I didn’t want to make excuses for my own failures, but today I realized that
y’all probably need to know what has been happening in the background.
As many of y ’all know, this started when I began investigating the payment made out of the SBC capital
reserve account to cover Steve Swigert’s fine for cutting down trees without authority. A huge part of what
prompted me to buy in Shelter Bay was the land covenants with the Tribe. I like the idea of living someplace
where the good of the land took priority over the wants of the people. Then I get here and find out that the
Board simply breaks those covenants willy-nilly then charges the whole community for it, and I was not okay
with that.
I started asking questions and several people told me to get in contact with Judy Kontos. Eventually someone,
I don’t remember who, sent me her phone number and I called her. She immediately invited me over to her
house for an informational meeting. When I got there, she introduced me to Paul Taylor, her personal
attorney. Together, Kontos and Taylor told me a tale of what they alleged to be embezzlement and greed.
Paul Taylor even told me that Louise Kari used SBC, Inc. bank statements to qualify for a mortgage on her
house! Taylor and Kontos told me that some of the board members were stealing from Shelter Bay and that in
order to prove it, they needed me to file a lawsuit. At first I suggested suing the entire corporation, but
Kontos and Taylor told me that would destroy the entire community and cost my neighbors a lot of money.
Then I suggested that Kontos herself sue the other Board members to be able to look at the bank records.
Paul Taylor told me the law didn’t allow that. I foolishly took his word for it. According to Judy Kontos and
Paul Taylor, the only way to protect Shelter Bay was to sue the individuals who were doing the stealing.
It was Judy Kontos who told me I only needed 50 signatures to trigger a recall election. After the first session
down at the library, when the Board said I needed more than that, she conceded I actually needed 20% of the
membership. However, according to Kontos, she had hundreds of people at her back that were just waiting
for a chance to recall these people. When asked last week to get those people to sign the petitions, she
produced less than two dozen names, several of which I had already collected on my own.
When my address was shared by the SBC, Inc., VP, and the blame was placed on me for all their failings, Judy
Kontos promised me that she was working with a high profile political consultant (she named names but I
won’t to protect the innocent) and that they had devised their own newsletter that “took back the narrative”
and defended me to the community. The first time Kontos told me about this alleged newsletter was the day
after I was doxed. She promised it would be mailed that day. Then, when it never arrived, she promised to
mail it the next week. And the week after that. She always had a reason for not sending it out, and the reason
always involved timing and strategy. Now I realize that Kontos never had any intention of taking an official
position on this. All the information she has given me, she has had for months. SHE could have told the
residents that Rick Tanner wrote a $139,000 check out of our reserve funds for some “unexpected” taxes.
SHE is on the Board. SHE owes us the same obligations that she claims the others do. Yet instead of disclosing
all of this malfeasance to the membership, she doled it out in carefully controlled pieces calculated to keep me
on the hook. And because I have this innate belief in the goodness of people, I believed her.

Paul Taylor and Judy Kontos assured me that Taylor would help me every step of the way if I agreed to
following their strategy, and the two of them did indeed help me draft the first complaint. I, of my own
accord, also filed a disciplinary complaint with the Washington State Bar against Philip Buri. While Buri was
more than happy to continue working for Shelter Bay while I sued him, the second he got an order from the
Office of Disciplinary Counsel to explain himself, he resigned. At that point, Paul Taylor called and told me not
to contact him any longer, because he wanted to be the next general counsel for Shelter Bay, and he didn’t
want any appearance of impropriety. However, he assured me that he was going to continue helping me, but
that I should only contact him through Judy Kontos.
After Paul Taylor quit helping me I got nervous, because I don’t know much about civil law. Judy Kontos
assured me that Taylor would be chosen as interim counsel, and as soon as he got the position they would
clean up the Board and the corporation would take over my lawsuit. When Taylor was not chosen as interim
counsel, Kontos and Taylor assured me that he was still in the running to be the lawyer on our lease, and that I
needed to keep going for the good of the community.
Paul Taylor and Judy Kontos were the ones who wanted the injunction. Prior to my filing, Judy Kontos told me
that she is close friends with Clay Zollar, and that Mr. Zollar had put down a $30K retainer with a prestigious
civil law firm because he wanted to sue SBC, Inc. Kontos alleged that she had talked Zollar out of suing the
whole corporation, and that if I could get the injunction he would “turn over his legal team” to help me. So I
went ahead and filed the motion, again under the guidance of Paul Taylor. He even checked the docket sheet
and told me what day to file to get the judge Taylor thought would be most favorable. Paul Taylor even
attended the first hearing, where the judge recused himself due to a relationship with Philip Buri, which Taylor
did not feel the need to disclose to me prior to the hearing. After the initial hearing, Taylor told me he
wouldn’t be attending the next one because the other members all attended and he didn’t want them to see
him there. Nonetheless, Taylor and Kontos assured me I was doing well, the law was sound, and it was just a
matter of me being brave.
After the second hearing, where we won the limited injunction, I broke down sobbing in the car on the ride
home because I was in over my head, I didn’t have time to do all the research necessary to win the next
hearing, and I didn’t feel like Kontos and Taylor were taking my concerns seriously. While I cried, Kontos sat in
the back seat on the phone to Taylor and rejoined in “the win.” When I got home and found a message telling
me to watch my language on facebook if I wanted the community to support me, I quit.
And this is where it gets REALLY GOOD. THE ONLY REASON I WENT TO THAT HEARING LAST FRIDAY IS
BECAUSE JUDY KONTOS CALLED ME AND TOLD ME THAT THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HAD VIOLATED THE
INJUNCTION BY MAKING A 2 MILLION DOLLAR PAYMENT OUT OF OUR RESERVE FUND. I immediately began
preparing to present this information to the judge. I spent two days working with Kontos, who kept assuring
me that the payment had been made, but when I pressed for proof all she gave me was an invoice. When
pressed on Friday morning, she finally admitted that the construction company the payment was purportedly
made to denied having been paid. Nonetheless, Kontos assured me the check had been written, she just
needed to find out who signed it. It was not until we were sitting in court, a few minutes before the case was
called, that Kontos conceded there had been no payment and the injunction had not been violated.
When I finally stood up before the Court, I was beginning to think I had been misled. When the judge and
opposing counsel started talking about the lack of duty owed to me by the Board members, and how Kontos
should have just asked for the records herself, I realized I had made a truly terrible error in judgment and that
nothing Paul Taylor had told me about the law or civil procedure was correct. That was the point at which I
started babbling and wound up getting chastised (very properly!) by the judge. She was right, I absolutely
knew not to talk over a judge. But, in my defense, I was in the middle of discovering that I had been well and

truly played by people I thought were on my side, and I was having a slight emotional crisis as a result. So,
yeah, shit day for me all around. . .
But here’s the thing: in the middle of all her machinations, Kontos actually did give me everything I need to
prove the CORPORATION has violated its duty to me. And I found out no one is stealing. . . Here’s what I
know and have the documents to prove:
Best,
Roberta Fontenot