VENZON WAS well known to the Bumbs. VENZON WAS well known to the Bumbs. "Could he [Jeff] do any other work on his own behalf?" he asked. Split Personality: The Bumb family made millions off of the San Jose Flea Market (below), started by George Bumb Sr. in 1960, and bolstered its financial fortunes with the opening of Bay 101 in 1994, a project started by now-outcast son Jeff Bumb. 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 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. Almost four months later, on July 21, 1998, George Bumb Sr. appeared in the downtown offices of Berliner Cohen to have his deposition taken. 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. Along the way, Jeff raised the ante, hiring Frank Ubhaus, a lawyer who represented Garden City card club, Bay 101's crosstown rival. He also disputes that such a letter was even necessary for Jeff to get licensed. "I'm a big boy." She recalled that she was dressed in shorts and a T-shirt covered by a blanket. Near the end Venzon writes, "They want to bring up the 'murder-for-hire' investigation again. 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. "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." The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. Matthew is the kind of guy a relative described to police as "polite," the guy parents wanted their daughters to date. He was also the kind of guy, police records reveal, who told his mother about the incidents "because he felt guilty." The couple even had a purchase contract for a $850,000 house on Golf Links Road. attorney Frank Ubhaus asked the Bumb patriarch. 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. Christopher Gardner (In one case, George Bumb Sr. loaned Jeff $31,250 in 1992 for his son to invest in Bay 101.) 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. Near the end Venzon writes, "They want to bring up the 'murder-for-hire' investigation again. And he [Jeff] wants me to violate the condition which says in it that I sign away my rights and they close us down. But his dream, which now seemed so close to being a reality, was about to become a nightmare. (Tim Bumb, the school's director, says it was put there to save on rent. Jeff tells the story differently: "Matthew was my godson. he asked. 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. The teenagers had been drinking booze earlier in the night. But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. The guy doesn't get a slap on the hand." But Jeff says the loan dispute screwed up their moving plans. It pitted Bumb against Bumb. "They had to find Snow White and Cinderella," Tim Bumb says, "and that was George and I."

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