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Builder admits payoffs to ex-Hudson exec |
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Wednesday, 23 June 2004 |
Builder admits payoffs to ex-Hudson exec
For $115,000, political contributor won $10 million in government funds
Joseph Barry, a politically active builder whose luxury homes and shopping
complexes have reshaped towns throughout New Jersey , admitted yesterday paying
nearly $115,000 in bribes to win government financing for a project on the
Hoboken waterfront… Barry told U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano, was a ""reward"" for
Janiszewski's help in getting almost $10 million in government grants and loans
for the Shipyard, a 45-acre riverfront housing and shopping complex in Hoboken.
Unbeknownst to Barry, Janiszewski at the time was cooperating with the FBI
after being caught taking bribes from another contractor. |
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Contractor took money, but did no work, police say |
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Wednesday, 23 June 2004 |
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Contractor took
money, but did no work, police say
On Sunday, borough police charged the contractor, Roger Louis Hemhauser,
54, with nine counts of theft, saying he has bilked borough residents out of
approximately $200,000 since November. He took at least $98,000 more from residents
in Edison and Woodbridge , according to police in those townships. |
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Judge dismisses DR Horton's SLAPP suit |
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Monday, 21 June 2004 |
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Judge splits two issues in dismissing lawsuit
Judge David Wall granted a motion late Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by home builder D.R. Horton against Safe Homes Nevada, a coalition of homeowners, based upon protections of the fair reporting privilege. |
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KB revives an old tone with a whole new meaning – “Home, home on the range.” ONLY IN AMERICA ! |
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Wednesday, 16 June 2004 |
KB revives an old tone with a whole new meaning –
“Home, Home on the range.” ONLY IN AMERICA !
Finally some of the true facts are beginning to emerge about KB’s opportunistic benefits, compliments of federal taxpayers.
We as taxpayers need to ask elected official, HUD and VA how KB Home was allowed to continue building and selling 300 additional federally insured homes on the bomb-ridden land despite extensive public exposure and after it was designated a million dollar, #1 US Army Corps of Engineers priority clean up site. Please write your elected officials and request answers as to why HUD after being informed did allow construction to continue unimpeded. Quote of the year from president of the Fort Worth division for KB Home:
""There are a lot of happy homeowners,"" Christian added. ""(Homes) continue to sell at a fast pace."
Truly it can be said that KB made a Lemonade Empire out of Lemons that gave a “BOOM” to the homebuilding industry like creative Corporate America has never seen. Corporate Welfare is alive and well in America. See Fact Sheet - Southridge Hills subdivision. |
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Home on the bombing range |
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Wednesday, 16 June 2004 |
Home on the bombing range
Inman News - Military history still haunts development site
Unexploded bombs that may be present at the site could have the potential to injure or kill people, according to Army Corps of Engineers reports. In 1983, during the construction of a 35-acre mobile home park at the former Five Points site, work was halted when a practice bomb was discovered there. A cleanup on that site followed, and an estimated 3,000 practice bombs were recovered from that portion of the site… Other bomb types were reportedly dropped at the site including the 100-pound M38A2 practice bomb and practice versions of the M47 chemical bomb…
According to court documents, King-Lewis stated in a sworn affidavit that she was approached in 2002 by Victor Toledo, a KB Home representative who allegedly ""did attempt to coerce, bribe, induce, manipulate and persuade me to sign…false affidavits."" She also reported that Toledo ""was unquestionably clear in his attempts to harass and force my family and me into submission by the offer of financial compensation as an inducement, in exchange for my signature on a false affidavit, which would be used to give witness against Janet Ahmad in his pursuit of future criminal actions against her." |
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Charges Dropped Against Home Construction Watchdog |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2004 |
Charges Dropped Against Home Construction Watchdog
ASSOCIATED PRESS - FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ Prosecutors have dropped charges against an activist for homeowners who had been accused of planting a small bomb in a neighborhood to influence a lawsuit. Tarrant County officials said Tuesday they dropped the charges last week against Janet Ahmad, National President of HomeOwners for Better Building . Ahmad had faced two felony counts of tampering with evidence related to a 911 call to Arlington police about an old military practice bomb found in a neighborhood. Her attorney, Mark Daniel, called the charges ""baseless."" ""Mrs. Ahmad has always been a capable advocate for the consumer opposing shoddy home construction,"" Daniel said. |
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Judge dismisses tampering charges |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2004 |
Judge dismisses tampering charges
Express-News Staff Writer
“A judge has dismissed charges accusing a San Antonio woman of tampering with evidence in an attempt to influence a lawsuit against a Fortune 500 homebuilder… In a press release, Ahmad's attorney Mark Daniel said ""It is regrettable that KB Home sought to bring a baseless criminal prosecution in an effort to gain leverage and silence her efforts."" |
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KB Home Critic Ahmad Absolved In Tampering Case |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2004 |
KB Home Critic Ahmad Absolved In Tampering Case Tarrant DA
SAL Political Snitch David zings Goliath, again.
“She was charged and indicted after KB mounted a huge campaign aimed at pressuring the DA and the courts to crucify her. She is currently being sued by KB to the tune of $20 million because of her criticisms of what she calls shady practices and shoddy construction. The Snitch has learned that KB representatives may have gone as far as offering ""bribes and incentives"" to potential witnesses to ""nail"" Ahmad, according to well placed sources and documents seen by the Snitch.” |
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Buying a house, building up the tension |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2004 |
-Buying a house, building up the tension
Outstanding!
The following article exposes the enormity of homeowners’ disputes over defective
home construction. The staff writer, Mitchell Kline of Tennessean.com
has done a superb job of helping readers relate to the frustrations and problems
of homeowners.
The Tennessean
Buying a house, building up the tension
Attorney Jean Harrison said she's swamped with phone calls from unhappy homeowners
and a stack of cases that continues to rise… |
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Panel Finds Mold in Buildings Is No Threat to Most People |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2004 |
Panel Finds Mold in Buildings Is No Threat to Most People
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Stepping into an issue that has alarmed homeowners and led to hundreds of
lawsuits and billions of dollars in insurance payments, a government panel
of experts reported yesterday that toxic mold in homes did not appear to pose
a serious health threat to most people…
Yesterday's findings drew criticism from homeowners who say they have experienced
the phenomenon.
""I get calls from people every day saying they've had water problems, windows
that leak, or water plumbing events behind the walls,"" said Janet Ahmad, president
of Homeowners for Better Building in San Antonio , an advocacy group for people
affected by mold. ""Somebody in the house usually has nosebleeds. They go away
for the weekend and the children stop coughing and having nosebleeds."" |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2004 |
Homewrecked
Fox29 Undercover Investigation
Jeff Cole, Reporter
Life-threatening construction defects in homes valued at a half-million dollars
!!! These are the findings of a Fox 29 Undercover investigation into shoddy
home construction. Fox 29 Undercover begins a series of reports over the next
few months. We begin our ""Homewrecked"" series in New Jersey . For some it's
not a “ Garden State .” |
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