Moving to Nashville as UPI Assistant General Counsel 8245 Frontier Lane, Brentwood, TN Ruhe and Geissler had made Linda Neal UPI’s General Counsel after their purchase of UPI. They also had decided to save money by [...]

UPI Begins Its Descent into Bankruptcy In scrambling for cash to meet payrolls, UPI at this time was awash with highly paid consultants. Disadvantaging UPI’s growing legion of creditors, Baha’i friends and acquaintances of Ruhe and Geissler increasingly [...]

UPI Sells Its Crown Jewel Picture Service to Reuters Reuters Headquarters, 85 Fleet Street, London By spring 1984, UPI was again running out of cash. Desperate to stave off the loss of control that would come [...]

Ruhe and Geissler Lose Sway as UPI Implodes Luis Nogales, UPI CEO As summer 1984 wore on, another Baha’i friend of Ruhe, continued to chase payment for enormous consulting fees for an automated accounting system he [...]

The Los Angeles Blow Up Century Plaza Hotel,  Los Angeles, Luis Nogales Headquarters For some time, it had been the view of Nogales and Kenny that the time had come for Ruhe and Geissler to either [...]

UPI's Bankruptcy Unfolds with a Shock Luis Nogales, CEO, announcing purchase of UPI out of banckruptcy by Mario Vazquez Rana and Joe Russo 1985 It has never sounded quite right when I tell people that as [...]

Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler UPI’s new owners, Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler, were young Nashville entrepreneurs. Though they had started out with little business experience or capital, their small Nashville company, Focus Communications, had successfully taken advantage [...]

UPI - Perennial Second Banana to the Associated Press Early Washington, DC UP Office United Press had been founded in 1907 by E.W. Scripps, the owner of newspapers in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo. The papers [...]