Blessed Chickasha Collective sued Brannan Bordwine, Bordwine Development, and Latitude Liquids in Grady County District Court on Feb. 9, 2023, claiming breach of contract and negligence.
Boardwine “entered into an oral lease” with BCC for the former H&B Machine & Manufacturing property in Ninnekah in June 2022. A condition of the lease was that Bordwine’s operations were to be conducted “in a safe manner which would protect [the] property from damage.”
Instead, a fire erupted on Aug. 7, 2022, and continued for several days. The fire was so volatile that the cast-iron lids on two manholes were blown off and the municipal sanitary sewer briefly caught fire from burning sanitizer that flowed into the line. Another fire occurred at the site on Oct. 18, 2022.
The H&B warehouse and an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 pallets of methanol-laced hand sanitizer improperly stored there were destroyed by the flames. In addition, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality “determined that there is contamination to waterways and soil on the property due to the improper storage, transporting or handling of hand sanitizer,” the lawsuit charged.
“Through discovery, research, and a deposition of Michael McGovern,” Bordwine discovered that McGovern, executive director of operations for Latitude Liquids, and Mike Ruffing, co-founder of the company, knew “they were not supposed to transport any of the potentially methanol-contaminated hand sanitizer” from 4e Northamerica to Bordwine’s facilities in Oklahoma. As a result, Bordwine filed a crossclaim against LL, McGovern and Ruffing.
Bordwine contended that Latitude Liquids agreed to share with Bordwine Development “certain revenues and expenses,” such as proceeds from “the ultimate sale of the constituent components of the hand sanitizer, including the reclaimed ethanol.” Latitude Liquids also agreed to compensate Bordwine Development for “certain services.”
Bordwine Development submitted to LL five invoices totaling $744,273, plus an invoice dated Dec. 31, 2022, for $75,000 for “labor, per diem, fuel and housing” - a grand total of $819,273. Latitude Liquids made one payment of $189,169, leaving it indebted to Bordwine Development for $630,104, Bordwine alleges.
Bordwine sued LL, McGovern and Ruffing for failure to pay their debt. They never responded.
Grady County District Judge Kory Kirkland decreed on Feb. 19, 2026, that as a result of the “wrongful actions and failure to participate” in the court case, Latitude Liquids, McGovern and Ruffing are “liable for and obligated to pay” Bordwine and his company $630,104 in damages plus attorney fees.
One reason why the company and its principals failed to participate in the court case is that their Tulsa attorneys received permission from the judge on Aug. 11, 2025, to withdraw as their legal advisers because of “the prolonged lack of payment” of their legal fees.
An evidentiary hearing on Bordwine’s fraud claims against, and application for attorneys’ fees from, Latitude Liquids, McGovern and Ruffing is scheduled for Aug. 4 in Chickasha before Kirkland.
Blessed Chickasha Collective dismissed “all claims and causes of action” against Bordwine and his companies on June 18, “with prejudice,” which permanently ended the litigation, barring BCC from ever refiling the same claim.
The BCC is a domestic limited-liability company organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma. The business was filed on Dec. 16, 2020, and is listed as inactive with the Oklahoma Secretary of State.
The principal office address is in Oklahoma City. The registered agent on file, and the sole principal on record, is Kevin Paul Pham, 49, of Oklahoma City.
Pham is incarcerated in the Lawton Community Corrections Center, serving a 10-year sentence from Kingfisher County for passing a forged instrument, being a felon in possession of a firearm, manufacturing, cultivating, distributing or processing a synthetic controlled substance, and engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses.