Ex-PureTex chief fighting extradition.(PureTex Water Corp.)( George Warren Ingram III)

Plastics News, January, 2007 by Renstrom, Roger

Byline: Roger Renstrom An ambitious plan to establish a large Texas water-bottling business needs new financial backing after the major backer resigned as chairman amid multiple legal problems. American PureTex Water Corp. was aiming to begin construction this month on its first vertically integrated bottling and distribution facility, near Eagle Lake, Texas, but that will not happen.

George Warren Ingram III, a 59-year-old who was founding chairman of Lincoln, Ill.-based PureTex, is battling efforts to have him extradited to Texas. Ingram, a secretive figure in the oil and gas industry who has claimed involvement with about 200 companies in more than 30 countries, has extensive legal woes. "George Ingram is a convicted felon on probation for theft of...