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A Different Legal System for the Rich: Imagine Getting Off Easy for Hit-and-Run Because You Run a Hedge FundSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 15:36.
The following AlterNet article - A Different Legal System for the Rich: Imagine Getting Off Easy for Hit-and-Run Because You Run a Hedge Fund... It's not just the recession that's killing the middle class -- it's how the legal system is being used to establish a two-tiered society - illustrates shocking developments in our legal system in America. 52-year-old Martin Joel Erzinger, a Morgan Stanley Smith Barney money manager who oversees more than a billion in assets for “ultra high net worth individuals, their families and foundations", hit a surgeon riding his bicycle in Colorado - and ran like a dirty dog - and "District Attorney Mark Hurlbert was apparently concerned with Erzinger’s future -- SEC rules would have required him to disclose the felony within 30 days of being convicted, which might have cost him his job -- and decided to accept a misdemeanor plea, over the objections of Milo and his attorneys. “Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession,” Hurlbert said, “and that entered into [the decision].”
As the author of A Different Legal System for the Rich points out, "There’s nothing new about high flyers getting off the hook for traffic accidents with a wink and a nod from friendly prosecutors"...
A similar case occured here in 2009 - Decision Rendered in Deadly Hit & Run Crash - where a suburban fund manager received light treatment for vehicular homocide, bringing into question the historic fairness of our legal system in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland.com featured extensive coverage of the long-time total incompetency and criminal behavior of lawyers in the office of County Prosecutor Bill Mason, which should never have been allowed by the legal community here. And this is just the tip of the injustice that evil man has caused this community, with the full support of 100% of the community's 17,000 lawyers (I've never heard one complaint from one). When you add to this concerns the judicial system in Northeast Ohio appears politically compromised, incompetent and corrupt... and that has coddled and enabled the incompetent and/or corrupt prosecutors... all enabled by 17,000 incompetent and/or corrupt lawyers in Northeast Ohio, you must wonder where is a poor American slob to turn for protection from the rich?!?! God bless America, land of the rich. May they run the other 99% of us all down as quickly as possible... if they haven't already put us in jail.
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Feds go back LOOK at $50,000 given Rokakis in 2004...
The same mentality behind this case is being used to CAMOUFLAGE the behavior of Jim Rokakis and the investors behind Plymouth Park. Two standards of justice.
Jim Rokakis changed state laws to benefit Plymouth Park.
Wall Street Is the New Tax Collector? Governments Relinquish Taxation Powers to Big Banks
Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis lobbied the Ohio legislature to pass a law that would allow County Treasurers to sell delinquent property tax liens to third parties. This legislation (H.B. 371) passed in 1998.
Since 1999, Jim Rokakis has given Plymouth Park Tax Services and GLS Capital exclusive and no bid contracts to purchase delinquent property tax liens located in Cuyahoga County. link
Plymouth Park Tax Services, located in New Jersey, is under federal investigation for anti-trust violations and collusion. link
Cuyahoga County filed 2,000 tax-foreclosure cases in 2009 – a 400 percent increase from five years ago. Tax foreclosures in the county accounted for 13 percent of all foreclosures.
This year, the county expects to file some 2,400 cases. link
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In Cleveland, officials are beginning to express concern about the consequences of trusting the new tax collectors. Cuyahoga County canceled this year’s tax sale (10/2010) amid alarm that previous ones had contributed to an upsurge in home foreclosures and further decay in already marginal neighborhoods. "With the economy the way it is now, we won't have a tax sale for at least one year,” said Robin Thomas, Cuyahoga County's chief deputy treasurer. Her aim: To buy homeowners in Cleveland “a little more time" to get caught up with their property taxes.
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SEE also:
County Treasurer submitted grant award from Plymouth Park Tax
COMMISSIONERS
Jimmy Dimora Peter Lawson Jones Tim McCormack
AGENDA ACTIONS October 12, 2004
7. County Treasurer, submitting a grant award in the amount of $50,000.00 from Plymouth Park dba XSPAND for local tax policy research.
Considered and adopted by unanimous vote.
link to PDF file ***
bocc.cuyahogacounty.us/ViewFile.aspx?Type=File&File=1600
AND....how is this*** ETHICAL?
Treasurer's office essentially accepted $50,000 from XSpand aka Plymouth Park to tell them which properties they should foreclose on....?!
What criteria justified the choice of properties to foreclose???!
Rokakis is just executing the Cleveland Plan
Rokakis is just executing the Cleveland Plan.
Not Rokakis' plan - it's the Cleveland Foundation Plan - the Cleveland Plain Dealer Plan - the Cleveland Illuminati plan.
Rokakis is just a troll off to jail, like DimAura, Russo... who knows who else... they have outlived their usefulness to the powers that be and will be destroyed now.
Blaming Rokakis for the genocide here is like blaming Sargent Schultz for the Holocaust
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Cleveland's Final Solution
If this is a "PLAN" as you say, Norm--who executed it?
Are you privy to insider information?
I am especially intrigued to know who knew the "plan" for East Cleveland aka Greater University Circle. Brad Whitehead?? It seems that this was the most evil element of the plan along with the scorched earth policy used in Slavic Village aka the Opportunity Corridor.
Yes--Rokakis is just the GCP's Himmler for the PLAN--I have no doubt of that--but all of these people should be held before a jury and judged for the crimes they have committed and for their sick justification of ethnic cleansing in NEO.
I learned about the plan for EC from an environmental expert
I learned about the plan for EC from an environmental expert who spends his life monitoring and cleaning up pollution, who told me about the secret MCCO coal plant in University Circle - unfortunately after my family was fucked into buying and investing in East Cleveland. I dug for the information on the new coal plant they planned, as I unsurfaced that East Cleveland mayor Brewer was literally a whore, and the new Mayor Norton distributes stollen pornography - and I learned more as I fought the motherfuckers and others came forward with related information.
I learned from Sy Murray at Cleveland State that there were no plans to actually help the people of East Cleveland, but only to screw them. Sy left to fuck up New Orleans.
I learned from David Reed, who resigned from Kent State - I assume bacause he couldn't stand working with them any more - that the planners here don't give a fuck about the people.
I learned from Intergenerational School founder Peter Whitehouse, Peter Holmes and Jones Day lawyers in general that the rich and powerful here are evil fuckheads who will kill children for money.
And on an on - I'm the most insider person in Cleveland - my family is rich and so has socialized with the rich my whole life... my dad psychoanalyzed half the CEOs in town... I went to the insiders school... I still know who all the zombies in town are.
I'm killing them with hatred... one by one... if MATT CARROLL'S CANCER doesn't get them first.
If my enemies are lucky they will just die quickly and quietly of Matt Carroll's cancer.
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I should have learned this from Matt Fucking Carroll
I should have learned this from Matt Fucking Carroll - he's in charge of fucking pollution here - I was on HIS Fucking Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council - he has harmed Clevelanders more than any man alive here, because it is his job to protect us from pollution, lead poisoning and the other dangers in our environment here, and he instead covers all that up for personal political gain... and it works great for the Carrolls.
He doesn't do it alone... list to follow.
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Alarm over Matt Carroll fucking citizens, from the Sierra Club
When I learned how much harm pollution here causes citizens, I contacted Sherrod Brown, his staff, Matt Carroll and everyone responsible for protecting citizens, and the Sierra Club and I were alarmed by Matt's inept and destructive response... his stupidity and evil galvanized the opposition against pollution from MCCO, that he has hidden from citizens forever... read and weep:
Carroll had a job to do for taxpayers and he has failed miserably... I personally think he should be fired from his current job as Cleveland Health Director and tar and feathered in Public Square - then executed.
Sherrod Brown should be next in line for tarring, feathering... and his little dog too... they are the kingpins of all this.
Matthew/Mattie Reitman
Beyond Coal Field Organizer, Ohio
Sierra Club, 131 N High St #605, Columbus OH 43215
mattie [dot] reitman [at] sierraclub [dot] org
614.461.0734 x316 (o) / 315.450.6628 (c)
mcarroll [at] city [dot] cleveland [dot] oh [dot] us| www.clevelandhealth.org
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This is already so far off today it may be regarded only as a sick, evil, stupid joke. We were in moderate at best at 12AM, even with the rain, wind, temperature and BP changes - I just drove through the Flats and the conditions South, East and West are clearly unhealthy.
And, even with all the monitoring data broken, we see our air is unheathy now via the incomplete data available via the EPA
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