If you arrived here by way of a search engine, you have likely seen another version of this story — one written about the Winstons rather than by them, repeated for years across pages that cite no sources, name no reporters, and produce no documents. This site exists because that version is false, and because the persons it concerns have a right to keep the record themselves.
Granddaughter of Clarence Weston Hansell, RCA inventor of fiber optics, facsimile, and radar. Daughter of George Hansell, who helped build Silicon Valley's VLSI infrastructure. Chief of Finance to the Diné Tribes of the Athabaskan Nation. Litigant pro se in matters spanning a decade.
Read the record →Chief Executive of ASI Sentient Inc. Co-founder, with Charel, of Salty Sweet Productions LLC. Lead inventor of AEON. The spouse, the partner, the one who builds. Known to those who love her as Mimi.
Read the record →Married thirty years. Co-founders of two companies. Sovereign chiefs of the Diné Tribes of the Athabaskan Nation by tribal instrument dated January 30, 2017. The work that has come from the partnership, and what was done to interrupt it.
Read the record →Olga Maria Eugenia Andrade Larrea Nogues. Born Guayaquil, Ecuador, July 22, 1930. Of the historic Andrade and Larrea families. Educated as a daughter of the house. Worked for the Bechtel Corporation. Mother of Alma Marie Winston. Keeper of the Diné Tribes — All Tribes.
Read the memorial →For a long time, when a person looked up Charel Winston or Alma Marie Winston on the open internet, the results returned a set of allegations attached to no journalist, no court of record, and no document. The same paragraphs reappeared on different pages under different banners. The phrasing migrated. The sourcing did not, because there was no source to migrate.
That pattern has a name in the literature on online reputation: it is called a recycled narrative, and it is one of the cheapest forms of harm available on the modern web. A claim is published once, somewhere with low editorial standards. It is then scraped, republished, and reframed across syndicated networks until search engines treat its volume as evidence of its truth. The original claim is never refined, retracted, or examined. It is simply repeated until repetition does the work that proof was supposed to do.
If the underlying allegation were what it is portrayed to be, there would be reporting. There would be a name on the byline, a court that issued a finding, a regulator that filed a complaint. There is none of that, because the allegation is not what it is portrayed to be.
This site is not a campaign. It is a record. Every adverse claim made here about an identifiable third party is drawn from a filed pleading, an issued order, a recorded instrument, or a publicly available document, and is cited as such on the page where it appears. Every favorable claim made about Charel Winston or Alma Marie Winston is similarly anchored — to a patent number, a corporate filing, a sovereign instrument, a published photograph, a contemporaneous record.
The reader is invited, at every turn, to verify. The court documents linked here can be pulled from the dockets of the Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Clara, the Superior Court of California for the County of Sacramento, and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The patents linked here can be pulled from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The corporate filings can be pulled from the Secretaries of State of Florida, Delaware, and California. The persons described here are real, the documents are real, and the absence of legitimate journalism on the recycled narrative is itself part of the record.
What follows, on the pages linked above, is the account the persons themselves keep. It will not match what was published about them. The reader is asked only to read both, and to notice which one cites its sources.
No staff reporter. No newsroom investigation. No public regulator. No issued finding. A serious allegation against identifiable persons, repeated for years, and not one piece of legitimate journalism has ever attached a byline to it. The absence is not an oversight. It is the answer.