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Benzer Testimony Gets Interesting!

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Guns? Organized crime? Fear of winding up in the desert? Major law firms involved? The HOA racketeering trial in Nevada is producing some interesting testimony from witnesses in the scheme to takeover Homeowners Associations across the valley.

This trial continues to be a travesty because 37 of the criminals involved were allowed to plead guilty in order to get lighter sentences. The sentences won’t be announced until after the current trial is over. But I’ll take a reporter’s wild guess that the average sentence for these mobsters won’t be greater than 18 months, with much of that time off for good behavior.

This is the one instance where I’d be all in favor of debtors’ prisons. Keep these animals locked up until every Nevada homeowner is made whole.

That’ll never happen.

I know there are some FBI people who read this blog. Have some guts and start investigating racketeering in HOAs all over the country!

(link to ReviewJournal article on Las Vegas HOA racketeering)

 

This One Will Absolutely Fry Your Brain!

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Dear Lord, I ask myself each night, can it really get worse? Can American homeowners really live under a burgeoning Nazi dictatorship? And the tragic answer is, “Yes, they can.” Nazi, Fascist, Communist, you name it, Americans are stupid enough to fall for it.

Windemere Cay Homeowners Association in central Florida has an interesting rule. If a homeowner writes a negative online review about this fascist organization, they are automatically fined 10,000 bucks! Payable within ten days, no less?

And the owner of the complex is instantly awarded all copyrights on any comments or photographs involving Windemere Cay.

Sometimes, on long lonely nights, I just slap myself silly over the claptrap that’s being issued by the country’s HOA Nazis. Yes, I slap myself. But the nightmare still doesn’t go away.

(go on, slap yourself silly after reading this)

 

Yet Another HOA Embezzling Case

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These stories come to us daily. Sometimes the loss is $28,000. Some are over a million dollars. Even when convicted there’s rarely any restitution from the embezzlers. And that means that every member of the Homeowners Association is going to be hit with a special assessment to cover the losses. Embezzling, kickbacks. And sometimes these crimes are so organized and so massive that they bankrupt entire neighborhoods.

Someday homeowners will wake up.

(link to another embezzlement in Tennessee)

 

Debtors Prisons? This Blows My Mind!

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Where have I been? As a reporter, I think I’m pretty streetwise. I know the controversies involving private prisons. But private debtor prisons? That’s beyond belief and I can hardly believe the judicial system has not taken aggressive action against these outrageous prisons. As you watch this short documentary imagine if HOAs could gain the power to create private prisons!

Finally, An Organization I Can Believe In!

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I’ve never been a big fan of the ACLU. Oh, I’ve interviewed ACLU officials a number of times in my career. They’re rarely the ones who say, “No comment!” And some of their battles I’ve certainly supported. Sadly, there are too many cases which I firmly believe that the ACLU won’t touch.

It’s a completely different story where the Institute for Justice (IJ.org) is concerned. They, too, are a civil rights organization but they seem to be more focused on housing, minority rights, and seeking out the kinds of justice that would help all of us, not just small minority interests.

Guest blogger Deborah Goonan sends this link to us:

http://ij.org/wa-lawyer-free-speech-release-2-20-15

Institute for Justice has a number of other great videos at:

IJ.org

You could and should spend an entire afternoon watching their videos and studying their interests. And then, as I’m doing now, write them a check. They’re doing some excellent work.