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." And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. On March 17, 1993, the City Council gave Bumb and his partners the green light to open a 40-table card room on a 10-acre plot of land off U.S 101. "What am I going to say to the vice president?" The Bumbs' reputation as an unconventional, insular, wealthy, large brood keeps tongues in political circles flapping. 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. 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. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. The district attorney's office says that Bumb attorney Ron Werner turned the letter over to authorities immediately after it came in the mail. Within weeks, Jeff says, his six-month-old dog was dead, his cat was dead and the tires of a family car were slashed. Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." "My wife broke the code," he says, "and I supported her." And it was very explicit in there that no Bumbs could have anything to do with the club. 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. "What am I going to say to the vice president?" He demanded $10 million from his brothers to compensate him for violating the purported secret Bay 101 deal. Privacy hasn't been so easy to come by for the Bumbs in the '90s, since they got involved in Bay 101. OK--we didn't get out--OK? 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. "I don't need their help," he barked at Werner. "The thing they probably value most is their privacy," Bryant explains. But Jeff says that privately he and his brothers had an oral agreement--which Tim Bumb now corroborates--that would one day let him repurchase his shares and become a partner in Bay 101 again. "I'm a big boy." 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 I told you that I loved you and you are like a father to me. At the time, San Jose, like cities throughout the state, was strapped for cash, looking at an $11 million budget shortfall. And it was very explicit in there that no Bumbs could have anything to do with the club. But Jeff and his family started hearing that instead of showing concern and support for his daughter, George Bumb Sr. and others in the family were blaming his freshman daughter for the incident and not her adult-age cousin. "He worked for me." 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. But Jeff and his family started hearing that instead of showing concern and support for his daughter, George Bumb Sr. and others in the family were blaming his freshman daughter for the incident and not her adult-age cousin. Bay 101 owners buy North San Jose hotel she said, referring to the family-run Catholic school at the Flea Market. Other allegations were more dubious: Investigators chased after a tip that the Bumbs were skimming cash from the Flea Market parking lot, an accusation that was never proven. "I'm a big boy." "I don't need their help," he barked at Werner. Along the way, Jeff raised the ante, hiring Frank Ubhaus, a lawyer who represented Garden City card club, Bay 101's crosstown rival. 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. Toward the end of the call, things got heated. According to Werner, molestation of his daughter became part of a laundry list of damning things Jeff threatened to disclose if his buy-out demands weren't met. 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. But there was no gambling done that night. George Bumb Jr. of San Jose Flea Market and Bay 101, dead at 61 Matthew Bumb's attorney argued that the relationship was consensual. And that ain't happening because I can't afford it." He was also the kind of guy, police records reveal, who told his mother about the incidents "because he felt guilty." The Flea Market, touted as the nation's largest, made the Bumbs rich, grossing nearly $12 million in 1996. "I don't need their help," he barked at Werner. 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. When Werner broke the news that Jeff's brothers wouldn't write a letter on his behalf, he says Jeff became furious. He was also the kind of guy, police records reveal, who told his mother about the incidents "because he felt guilty." "He took care of it." So Jeff, Brian and the remaining non-family partners backed out of Bay 101, handing everything over to Tim and George Jr. Jeff tells the story differently: "Matthew was my godson. Houses & Cars. Bumb family attorney Ron Werner suggested that Jeff and his family had a hidden motive for waiting nearly a month to report the incident to police. 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. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." He started telling people around the office that he wanted out of the family business. But there was no gambling done that night. And there were gamblers everywhere who had come looking for some action. Well, guess what? More Info: What movies did she appear on? Snow White or Cinderella? Christopher Gardner 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. Jeff's grandfather, Frank Bumb, had met his wife, Mary, at a card parlor in San Francisco where they worked. "I'm a big boy." And for nearly a month, they did. 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. Jeff signed a deal with his brothers that prohibited him from owning Bay 101 stock until he got all the necessary licenses. Jeff's daughter interrupted Matthew and said, "And I didn't know better. 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. Preventive Medicine: George Bumb Jr. is a co-owner of Bay 101, where a snakebite kit is kept on-hand as a family joke. she said, referring to the family-run Catholic school at the Flea Market. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) Well, guess what? One of George Bumb Sr.'s granddaughters explained to police that her family was very old-fashioned: "The woman gets the short end of the deal; she is a whore. And then police remembered the old rumors about a murder plot at the Flea Market, where Venzon had worked as a security guard for more than 15 years. Preventive Medicine: George Bumb Jr. is a co-owner of Bay 101, where a snakebite kit is kept on-hand as a family joke. "We made it very clear to Jeff and everybody else concerned," Tim says, "that I'm not going to stick my neck on the line here. 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. He started telling people around the office that he wanted out of the family business. AN ATTORNEY involved likened the whole contentious affair to a divorce. 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. Matthew is the kind of guy a relative described to police as "polite," the guy parents wanted their daughters to date. A nurse was present to monitor his condition. At the time, San Jose, like cities throughout the state, was strapped for cash, looking at an $11 million budget shortfall. Matthew Bumb's attorney argued that the relationship was consensual. 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. Well, guess what? 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. Bumb family attorney Ron Werner suggested that Jeff and his family had a hidden motive for waiting nearly a month to report the incident to police. It's very tightknit," says Bryant, adding that the senior Bumb doesn't give interviews--ever. Ultimately, the charges against the older Bumb were reduced to a misdemeanor. It's like we had no life except for the family." Toward the end of the call, things got heated. George Bumb Jr., the quiet one with a flair for things mechanical, was already at the controls of Air One Helicopter. "My issue with [George Bumb Sr.]," Jeff Bumb complains about his father, "was his control of where you lived, what kind of house you bought, where your children went to school, who your friends are, whether your children went to college, who they would marry, what kind of wedding they would have." Over the years, he had developed working relationships with the city's politicians and bureaucrats. But Jeff Bumb would greatly prefer not to talk about this. OK--we didn't get out--OK? 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. So Jeff, Brian and the remaining non-family partners backed out of Bay 101, handing everything over to Tim and George Jr. "He worked for me." The de Young family. And then police remembered the old rumors about a murder plot at the Flea Market, where Venzon had worked as a security guard for more than 15 years. 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 worked for me." Christopher Gardner "He worked for me." Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. "I liked my name," he maintains. But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. 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 when I visited you at your home I told you that other than God you are the only person I've gotten down on my knees for," Venzon says on page 7. And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. At one point in the investigation, sheriff's detectives had Jeff's daughter call Matthew while he was working at the Flea Market to confirm the sexual activities. One wag refers to them as "the Beverly Hillbillies of San Jose." Well, George, whether you want to believe it or not I do love you and you are like a father to me." The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. The teenagers had been drinking booze earlier in the night. Matthew is the kind of guy a relative described to police as "polite," the guy parents wanted their daughters to date. OK--we didn't get out--OK? 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. Initially, police filed felony charges against Matthew Bumb for having oral sex with a minor and penetrating her with his fingers. 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. The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. At the time, Jeff was in the midst of negotiating an arrangement to be bought out of the family businesses. 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." Bryant, who acts as emissary for the family and its patriarch, thinks the Bumbs are a misunderstood bunch. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I." Toward the end of the call, things got heated. 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. 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. And then, just when it seemed as though family relations couldn't get any worse, they did. At one point in the investigation, sheriff's detectives had Jeff's daughter call Matthew while he was working at the Flea Market to confirm the sexual activities. She told police about at least seven other sexual encounters she had with her cousin after that. At one point in the investigation, sheriff's detectives had Jeff's daughter call Matthew while he was working at the Flea Market to confirm the sexual activities. "I mean," Jeff later said at a deposition, "it was a time of hurt and heartache for us--and not my father, not my mother, not my brother George, not my brother Tim, not Brian could care less." 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. "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" Other allegations were more dubious: Investigators chased after a tip that the Bumbs were skimming cash from the Flea Market parking lot, an accusation that was never proven. 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. When Werner broke the news that Jeff's brothers wouldn't write a letter on his behalf, he says Jeff became furious. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. Still Standing: Jeff Bumb, Bay 101's ostracized founder, boasts that despite various local, state and federal investigations over the years he has emerged squeaky clean. Realizing that, Jeff offered to pay higher card-room taxes (next year the city expects to collect $4.5 million from Bay 101) and pick up the tab for security. 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. And as with any divorce, embarrassing private details about the family and its businesses made their way into the public record. "He took care of it." She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. 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. "And when I visited you at your home I told you that other than God you are the only person I've gotten down on my knees for," Venzon says on page 7. But there was no gambling done that night. He and his brothers had a plan, he says. 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. Ultimately, the charges against the older Bumb were reduced to a misdemeanor. A nurse was present to monitor his condition. Bumb family attorney Ron Werner suggested that Jeff and his family had a hidden motive for waiting nearly a month to report the incident to police. VENZON WAS well known to the Bumbs. "My wife broke the code," he says, "and I supported her." You know the school we went to?" And it was very explicit in there that no Bumbs could have anything to do with the club. "We made it very clear to Jeff and everybody else concerned," Tim says, "that I'm not going to stick my neck on the line here. After learning of the incident, Jeff and wife Elizabeth did not report the matter to police immediately. Ultimately, the charges against the older Bumb were reduced to a misdemeanor. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. he asked. But Jeff says that privately he and his brothers had an oral agreement--which Tim Bumb now corroborates--that would one day let him repurchase his shares and become a partner in Bay 101 again. The teenagers had been drinking booze earlier in the night. 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. 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. Of the four brothers, Tim and George had faced the least resistance from state gaming officials. It wasn't the idea of gambling. Hamilton, where Latin mass is conducted on a regular basis. Werner said no. Deputy chief Tom Wheatley says that police wondered if Venzon, or someone, destroyed the barrel to prevent a ballistics test from tracing a fired bullet to the gun. Tim and George Jr. would appeal and reapply, the hope being that the club would open as soon as possible. When Jeff and Brian were denied licenses for Bay 101, Tim (above) and brother George Jr. jumped in. You know the school we went to?" Over the years, he had developed working relationships with the city's politicians and bureaucrats. Along the way, Jeff raised the ante, hiring Frank Ubhaus, a lawyer who represented Garden City card club, Bay 101's crosstown rival. At one point in the investigation, sheriff's detectives had Jeff's daughter call Matthew while he was working at the Flea Market to confirm the sexual activities. Before the end of the month, the Flea Market laid off Jeff's daughters Anne and Rebecca. 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. "He took care of it." But Jeff and his family started hearing that instead of showing concern and support for his daughter, George Bumb Sr. and others in the family were blaming his freshman daughter for the incident and not her adult-age cousin. They recorded the conversation. 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. (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. Within weeks, Jeff says, his six-month-old dog was dead, his cat was dead and the tires of a family car were slashed. Now that their gaming license had been denied, a decision needed to be made--quickly. The state, still busy conducting background checks, still hadn't approved the Bumbs and their partners' gaming licenses. "The thing they probably value most is their privacy," Bryant explains. In her 10 years as the Flea Market's community relations specialist, Bryant has come to adore the lack of pretension among this clan of millionaires who have their offices in a mobile home where none of the furniture seems to match. Within weeks, Jeff says, his six-month-old dog was dead, his cat was dead and the tires of a family car were slashed. 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. Unlike other partners, neither Jeff nor Brian had buyback provisions in their written agreements, an intentional omission meant to appease state gaming officials who wanted them out of the picture. The Bumbs had a plenty of experience with a cash business through the Flea Market, which they've run for almost 40 years. attorney Frank Ubhaus asked the Bumb patriarch. By Will Harper 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." She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. 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. She told police about at least seven other sexual encounters she had with her cousin after that. His crimes included taking valuables from the bereaved family members of dead crime victims while pretending to console them. 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. In a fit, he took the paper he was writing on, crumpled it up and threw it out the office door. Toward the end of the call, things got heated. But Jeff and his family started hearing that instead of showing concern and support for his daughter, George Bumb Sr. and others in the family were blaming his freshman daughter for the incident and not her adult-age cousin. His crimes included taking valuables from the bereaved family members of dead crime victims while pretending to console them. 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. And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. And then, just when it seemed as though family relations couldn't get any worse, they did. And there were gamblers everywhere who had come looking for some action. But the Bumbs are hardly traditional political players. 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. You know the school we went to?" Snow White or Cinderella? The elder Bumb may not have been feeling well, but he wasn't too sick to remember who was boss in this family. He also pulled off an armed robbery of the Aloha Roller Palace. And there were gamblers everywhere who had come looking for some action. Police reports would suggest she had, "for about a year," been giving "blow jobs" to 19-year-old Matthew Bumb, son of George Bumb Jr. He followed that with suits alleging breach of contract, wrongful termination and misrepresentation. 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. Preventive Medicine: George Bumb Jr. is a co-owner of Bay 101, where a snakebite kit is kept on-hand as a family joke. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I."
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