It's a new day in Cuyahoga County. Transparency, no more corruption, the end of conflicts of interest, scams, fraud, waste, no more con artists, blah blah blah,,,,,,
If you see it, speak out. blah, blah, blah,,,,,,
County officials make county employees attend ethics training and the employees must sign a document agreeing to report any suspected abuse; however if a person makes a report involving one of their own, they don't want to hear it. Not sure how much the ethics training cost the county, but why bother?
I was semi hopeful that the government would put an end to the decades long line of bullshit that we have been fed, but it is clear that the new government is full of empty promises.
I am going around in circles trying to find one competent public official that will stand up and put an end to Gus Frangos' , president of the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, unethical, conflict of interest, fraud, scams, etc....
Gus Frangos is a master con artist and he needs to either step down or be thrown out of office.
As president of the county land bank, Frangos job is to save us from the foreclosure crisis. Meanwhile, Gus Frangos has had several foreclosure filed against him and his shell LLC's, including one property in which the delinquent property tax foreclosure was granted and is scheduled for sheriff auction on April 8, 2013.
Frangos salary is paid by the collection of delinquent property taxes. Frangos' numerous shell LLC's are or have been property tax delinquent for years. Some are still tax delinquent owing thousands of dollars.
The pattern and history of Frango's shell LLCs delinquent property taxes began while he was employed with the Cuyahoga County Treasurer's office - which is in control of collecting property taxes.
There is also history of applying for very high mortgages - way more than the true value of the property - and not repaying the mortgage. If he paid the mortgage, I was unable to find any release after searching numerous documents. The other mortgages were not paid until he was forced to pay via foreclosure filings.
Frangos is in charge of fighting blight, boarding-up vacant properties to secure them from crime, demolitions, etc,. Meanwhile Gus Frangos' numerous shell LLC properties are wide open to crime, unsecured doors and windows, and dumps that look they are in the middle of a war zone.
Frangos job is to keep property out of the hands of out-of-state investors/flippers that are hungry for cheap property and the chance to make a quick profit. Meanwhile, Gus Frangos is literally giving or nearly giving numerous properties to out-of-state FLIPPERS via the land bank.
Frangos is supposed to screen potential buyers to check their history; however when I performed a two minute search of my own, I found the rules were not being followed and numerous flippers were given county tax payer property. Several of the flippers worked as a team and met in a coffee shop to discuss their scam.
Frangos was also supposed to check to see if the potential buyers had a history of owing delinquent property taxes prior to giving them land bank property; however Frangos failed to check out the buyers. Several properties were given to a LLC in which the incorporator and agent for the self-created LLC owes Cuyahoga County nearly $10,000 in delinquent property taxes. This flipper sold the property within two hours after receipt of the property from the land bank for a profit of over $60,000. His delinquent property taxes remain.
GUS FRANGOS HAS TO GO. Frangos must be held to a much higher standard and his behavior is unacceptable.
Gus Frangos can not be trusted and is a threat to all of Cuyahoga County property.
This complaint is now in the hands of Nathan Kelly, Chief of Staff for Economic Development ; Pernel Jones, Jr., Cuyahoga Councilman ; Mark Parks, Cuyahoga County Treasurer.
The world is watching to see if these folks make the right move. Contact them and encourage them to make the right decision.
Below is some of the actual photographs of property owned by Gus Frangos' self-created LLC's - in which Gus Frangos SIGNED the mortgages and admitted that he was a 'member' of the LLC. I believe he was the sole member.
Property tax delinquent for years.
Due to the volume of all of the evidence, it would be impossible to include all of it in this blog. Please click here to view numerous blogs filled with more evidence on Gus Frangos' scam http://realneo.us/blogs/lmiller [3]
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Photographs of property owned by Gus Frangos' shell LLCs:
Tons of broken glass - on a SIDEWALK
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