Mentor Capital Awarded $750,000 Judgment

Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTCQB:MNTR) announces that it has received a $746,500.29 judgment against Wm. E. Fielding and Associates, Inc. of Delray Beach, Florida, as U.S. receiving and forwarding agent for Global Guarantee Corporation, S.A. of Dublin, Ireland. The award was for Fielding’s role in failing to return $621,250 in refundable loan insurance premiums after an international loan did not fund, plus interest and costs.

“Mentor Capital has been aggressive in pursuing the return of our unused and refundable insurance premium. Our funds were originally wired out into and then forwarded on internationally from Fielding’s JPMorgan Chase bank account in Beverly Hills, California, in March 2014. In addition to the various thirty-three court related steps reported on the court docket, Mentor retained the Dublin law firm of McCann FitzGerald to investigate Global Guarantee in Ireland and filed a criminal complaint with the FBI here,” reports Mentor Capital CEO Chet Billingsley.

“Because of our relatively small number of shares outstanding, this judgment calculates to four cents per Mentor share. Our long-standing policy here and in any similar court action is to step through the court process and then patiently and continually pursue collection, which is our next step,” concludes the CEO.

About Mentor Capital: The Company seeks to come alongside and assist private medical marijuana and cannabis companies and their founders in meeting their liquidity and financial objectives, to add protection for investors and to help incubate private cannabis companies.

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