Political Profiteering - Forest City's long history in Slavic Village

Submitted by lmcshane on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 09:44.
Political Profiteering - Forest City's long history in Slavic Village
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Dead bodies in Slavic Village - 3680 E 50 latest

Submitted by lmcshane on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 08:12.

 
Forest City Enterprises (FCE) is a $10.6 billion company that most Americans have likely never heard of, even though the public finances twenty-three percent of FCE’s revenue. The FCE business model is dependent upon political profiteering: relying on public money and government influence to reap millions in profit.  Using highly paid lobbyists, political connections, campaign contributions, and strategic hiring of government officials, FCE obtains lavish public subsidies, tax-exempt financing and the seizure of private land from eminent domain condemnations.

 

https://causeofaction.org/political-profiteering-how-forest-city-enterprises-makes-private-profits-at-the-expense-of-americas-taxpayers/

From Mitch Paul

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:18.
Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 10:37 AM
Subject: Fwd: https://forward.com/news/217929/how-a-secret-charity-helps-jewish-groups-feel-safe/ this group of America's most prominent Jewish leaders are THIEVES...happy to answer any questions. Grants to this group are much more than claimed on the IRS990s of this 501c3 as income. Additionally stolen are all the private donations ( not visible to the public). Ties to Sheldon Silver/ Rapfogel cases and OPTIMA VENTURES 5.5 billions Ukrainian bank frauds. I have studied thousands of IRS990s ...
 

 

I mentioned yesterday that the renovations for public square were only done for the benefit of the Ratners family. I had a friend who was a subcontractor in terminal tower/ tower city about 6 years ago and I worked a bit for him..and in the garage I spoke to a Forest City executive ( didn't appear Jewish either) and complimented them as to how slick the public square renovations were marketed. He was in a reserved executive parking spot. He said I was very smart to have noticed the obvious , ie that it was done for the benefit of the Ratners many of whom I know
Personally. The wool was basically pulled over the eyes of all Cleveland residents. Albert Ratner is President of the multi billions Cleveland foundation and they kicked in 7 millions. Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. Would be great if Clevelander's were aware of this ..but we are not. It would be truly eye opening if you could interview ex Forest City executive. News is tightly controlled in Cleveland by the Newhouse's and Jewish advertisers are actually organized to control news content...basically they withhold advertising if the content isn't to the Ratners liking.  Sam Miller himself in a steam bath we both frequented told me this himself. I didn't believe him at the time.sounded exaggerated..but I do now. Check out his PLAIN DEALER front page obituary. He was basically a gangster BTW.  The Ratners VAN AKEN development also needs scrutiny. It has national importance as HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge( my 1971 shaker classmate, obese stupid witch) represented the district. Lives in a tax abated home nearby. With some 30 million of public(even nonprofit money) support including some 20 odd loans to tenants both low interest and forgivable( wish I had such loans) the Ratners renovated and added on to the existing center they owned. My educated guess is that their cost were around 25 million...but they borrowed around a hundred against it leaving them only 75 millions up front. Would be great to have a real estate savvy reporter actually report the facts. Never has a developer been given such subsidies...or profited so much. First you must purchase the politicians...as they have done with the assistance of the PLAIN DEALER. Honest politicians here can do no right and the sleaziest can do no wrong. Hopefully you find the linkage to OPTIMA VENTURES interesting and compelling.  It certainly was a pleasure chatting.  Please share the SECURE COMMUNITY with a reporter interested in nonprofit crimes.  In Cleveland it took both corrupt  nonprofit  and political leaders to allow us to become the poorest city in America. We also have the highest income inequality( never locally discussed)...wonder why?  Happy to answer any questions that might arise.    Cheers
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SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK.   ( SCN)  THIEVES ties to Rapfogel/ Silver and OPTIMA VENTURES 5.5 billions Ukrainian bank frauds too.
Conflicting dates for SCN origin( first grants in 2003...first IRS990S in 2006) exist and the first grants ( Mandel)predate the first 990 filings as well.  
Post 911,security was a legitimate concern and the founders Stephen Hoffmann( from Cleveland) David Harris( American Jewish Committee) Jerry Silverman( North American Jewish Federations. ..or JFNA) and Malcolm Hoenlein(longtime leader of Conference of presidents of major Jewish organizations and known as the King of the Jews...) decided a central Jewish security response was needed...and how can we personally make some money.  Here the choice of leadership CEO Paul Goldenberg who had exaggerated credentials( some ridiculous..all exaggerated,) his actual ability was inconsequential..his willingness to steal for them the was. Actually protecting Jews was low on the priority list( read the Forward newspaper article about the secret charity by Nathan-Kazis) and the New Jersey monthly article about Paul Goldenberg where he makes many outrageous claims...consultant to Miami Vice and the Sopranos etc lying Bullshit.  Note in NJ monthly article no mention of SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK although it's supposed to be his main gig. During his 15 years tenure as CEO about 8 millions were recorded...less than one dollar for each American Jew they were alledgedly protecting while really doing almost nothing. He nicked Hadassah for a couple of millions in addition BTW.  The utube videos by SCN are absurd.  Mr Goldenberg has been at the highest level of Homeland security Committees....notice the threats in the letter by his attorney Munoz which I have ignored and taunted them somemore...they have done nothing btw nor have I retracted anything.
Current SCN board President Michael Siegal of Cleveland ( Olympic steel and the advisor for the OPTIMA VENTURES steel investments is quite likely)is also chairman of the board of governors of the Jewish agency in Jerusalem responsible for Jews worldwide.  He comes from a wealthy family and used SCN as a credential. My guess is initially he knew nothing of the grants and all of the private DONATIONS thefts. Chuck Ratner( the downtown Cleveland real estate advisor?) also SCN trustee preceeded him. One in 225 Jews worldwide live in Cleveland so the likelihood of that is 225 square or about 50 thousand to one. 
Paul Goldenberg's replacement Michael masters is a former FBI agent...he probably thought it was kosher too initially.
Hoenlein and Silverman replacements are both Cleveland boys...william Daroff for Hoenlein and Eric Fingerhut for Silverman.
Eric Fingerhut was Hillel and Cleveland boy Adam Lehman replaced him.
One in 100 American Jews come from Cleveland...so what's 100 squared....10, 000 to one.  This is a scheme led by the Ratner family of Cleveland....( did you read 'love letters for Willie Rapfogel by Barrett in city and state and my comment, the only one?) notice Ratners. After prison release Rapfogel claimed to have been framed.  He received an Epstein like sentence then work release too. A constant supporter in prison of Rapfogel was SCN founder Malcolm Hoenlein( see Hamodia article). Notice the lack of CENTURY INSURANCE's other Jewish nonprofit clients being examined...that was a huge and deliberate cover-up as Jewish nonprofits were the speciality of the CENTURY bribers. 
Ratners built the New York Times building with/ for the Sulzberger family. They have a longstanding Alliance/ partnership with the Newhouse's who own Cleveland PLAIN DEALER and suburban sun weekly's( formerly owned namby senator Howard Metzenbaum). ABBA HILLEL SILVER is turning in his grave.
Have questions...hoping you do.
Notice chart below of JFNA grants to SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK..over 98% of its funding from JFNA alone. Not much more needed to start asking questions.
Another~15% from 5 Cleveland sources too. Dozens of other American Jewish Federations gave TOO, all STOLEN. One note is that JFNA is on a July to June fiscal year...but it changes nothing in the big picture.
All the private DONATIONS STOLEN additionally...maybe they claim a private donation was never received. Good shpiel to coax money from wealthy donors...we are protecting Jews.
Simply doesn't add up.  In total for their entire existence and some years especially problematic. I have examined thousands of IRS990S to arrive at the truth. 
Best shonda EVER.
Gonna look the other way?
It's a cancer from Cleveland..America's poorest city
I am hoping you have questions.
Also in a bigger picture...the IRS does not link claimed philanthropic DONATIONS to actual recipients ( 501c3) IRS990s. This has been confirmed by ex IRS agents to me. The best example is the rabbi Goldstein case in Poway who was just sentenced...8 others already indicted.
 It's a recipe for theft and incredibly incompetent on the IRS's part. It's not like 1099 and W2 forms  together,where you better claim at least that much income. The antiquated Honeywell's with tape drives is just ridiculous..IRS needs  more modern data centers and to employ more data fusion algorithms.
Another way I have discovered to catch dishonest charities is rather simple. Look at the credit card processing fees listed on IRS990s and multiply by ~43 times to get the original amount charged. In three cases I found that amount to be substantially more than the income they claimed from all sources. Then the cash , checks and direct deposits were also stolen. If I can find three they exist in the many thousands.
My first discovered fraud WECO FUND ( EIN# 341439659 was simple...157k from United WAY and they only claimed 112 from ALL sources. Our Cuyahoga County executive Armond Budish is involved. Save those details for later. Lots of local obstruction of justice indictments needed there. Cleveland'  new law director Mark Griffin had a role to play. Just a small part of the dishonest political culture in Cleveland that has made Cleveland Americas poorest city.p

Long READ -Eric J Brewer -Justin call EJB

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 08:01.

https://ejbnews.com/28834/  

Relevant information -excerpted and bolded:

When the next mayor walks into Cleveland city hall they will be walking into a series of ongoing activities.  Among them will be local, state and federal audits as well as confidential federal and state criminal investigations.

The next mayor is going to inherit a 6000*employee workforce Jackson built over the past 16 years.  They are untrained.  Undisciplined.  Overpaid at the top.  Largely incompetent.  An example of administrative incompetence is the construction and demolition debris landfill Jackson’s health department allowed to exist behind homes in East Cleveland.

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Not even the city council “health committee” White’s protege, Johnson, served on knew Cleveland since the 1970’s has had a contract with the Ohio EPA to enforce air, water and soil pollution laws for Cuyahoga County. All of it.  I’ve had discussions with Northern Ohio administrator Kurt Princic about stripping the city of the contract because Jackson’s negligence has turned damn near the entire east side of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County into a landfill for every type of dumper.

Debris from University Circle’s projects have been ending up buried in Forest Hill Park.  Baumann’s does what they want at Broadway and E. 131 st Street; while one of the “son’s” plants dirt over stone at a demolition site on E. 148th and Kinsman.  Any mayoral debate about the environment that doesn’t include questions about why Cleveland doesn’t enforce its end of the contract makes the discussion moot if the questioners and candidates don’t know it exists.  Neither do the town’s journalists.  You can not ask or talk about what you don’t know.

Cleveland has been managed over the past 16 years by a mayor who was not a disciplined reader nor one who built “statutory compliance” into every facet of every municipal worker’s job description.  City hall’s activities, including those of city council, do not resemble the structure laid out for them in the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of Ohio, the laws of the nation, state, charter, ordinances and administrative codes.

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I don’t know Bibb and never heard of him until his name began appearing in the Plain Dealer and on cleveland.com.  In my mind I saw someone behind the scenes “building him up.” What I know is Bibb has absolutely no consciousness for managing a statutory government that doesn’t need his “ideas.”  It’s the mayor’s duty to learn, master, obey and enforce two constitutions and federal, state and local laws.  The beauty of our laws is that if read and obeyed by the officials in government all our lives are improved.  They’re great governing authorities.  They just have to be “read.”

*Crain's Cleveland reports that the actual number of CLE employees thanks to FRANK is 7K +  GOOD NEWS for Justin Bibb - most of those employees LIVE OUTSIDE CLE and CAN'T vote in November.  Many got their jobs through Kevin Kelley.

Maurer bites the HAND - Good for her

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 09/25/2021 - 07:23.

 

 
 
 

 

 
Rebecca Maurer
 
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6/ Printing and sending these three mailers undoubtedly cost thousands and thousands of dollars. And because the PAC was sending these out, I don't think the incumbent sent a single piece of mail that he paid for himself -- one of the largest expenses in a campaign.
 
 

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7/This unreported PAC spending isn't right. (1) If it's a direct contribution--which I think it is--the PAC is going far beyond the $3,000 limit (2) And even if it's an independent expenditure, the PAC is appearing to be the incumbent, confusing voters in violation of Ohio law
 
 

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8/ Any way you slice it, this spending violates Ohio law. And it's the Council Leadership Fund PAC -- led by Kevin Kelley -- putting its thumb on the scale in Ward 12.
 
 

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9/ I gave the incumbent and the PAC the benefit of the doubt. I sent a letter to them last week asking that they call these mailers what they plainly are (direct contributions), correct their books, and refund the excessive money.
 
 

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10/I didn't even get a response back I think that the PAC & the incumbent were hoping this could get swept under the rug for the quick 6 weeks before the general. My opponent continued to attend events with printed copies of the PAC's mailer in hand as though it was his own.
 
 

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11/The stakes are high here. Ward 12 deserves nothing less than a fair race. I worry that if these spending irregularities aren't addressed, and quickly, my neighbors and I will be fighting a barrage of improper spending for the next 39 days. What a distraction from what matters.
 
 

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12/What’s worse, the PAC has Kevin Kelley in the driver’s seat. He's a treasurer. It's his fund meant to protect incumbents. This isn’t “inside baseball”--that’s just what the PAC is for. And while he's running for mayor, he is using his PAC's money to muck around in Ward 12.
 
 

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13/ I'm running for Council because I fundamentally believe Clevelanders deserve better politics than what we've been getting. There's no better example of what’s broken in Cleveland than what I’ve described in this thread. It’s why I felt I had to file a formal complaint.
 
 

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14/ I can only hope that the incumbent and the PAC do the right thing and reverse this unreported contribution, or that the Ohio Elections Commission intervenes promptly. Cleveland and Ward 12 deserve nothing less.

Maurer bites the HAND - Good for her

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:31.

NEWS: Today I had to file a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission against the Council Leadership Fund PAC for it’s spending in Ward 12. I launched my campaign on a commitment to accountability and transparency. So I want to explain how I reached this decision 2/ For background--and many of you already know this--the Council Leadership Fund PAC was formed by members of council years ago. Council president and mayoral candidate Kevin Kelley is a treasurer and--as the name implies--the goal is to maintain the status quo on council. 3/ PACs like it have two ways to spend money. (1) They can contribute directly to a campaign subject to donation limits (in Cleveland -- $3,000) (2) They can make uncoordinated, independent expenditures subject to rules -- rules like not confusing voters about who is paying 4/The Council Leadership Fund PAC maxed out its donations to the Ward 12 incumbent with a single $3,000 check in July. Business as usual. But then my neighbors in the Ward started getting mail. The mail was clearly from the incumbent, but it said it was paid for by the PAC. 5/ There isn’t a big mystery here. These mailers use the incumbent’s official logo, phone number, and e-mail. They are written by the incumbent--they say “me” and “my.” One even has a letter encouraging people to vote signed by the incumbent. 6/ Printing and sending these three mailers undoubtedly cost thousands and thousands of dollars. And because the PAC was sending these out, I don't think the incumbent sent a single piece of mail that he paid for himself -- one of the largest expenses in a campaign. 7/This unreported PAC spending isn't right. (1) If it's a direct contribution--which I think it is--the PAC is going far beyond the $3,000 limit (2) And even if it's an independent expenditure, the PAC is appearing to be the incumbent, confusing voters in violation of Ohio law 8/ Any way you slice it, this spending violates Ohio law. And it's the Council Leadership Fund PAC -- led by Kevin Kelley -- putting its thumb on the scale in Ward 12.

Kelley and Brancatelli commit crime - get off w/ $50 fine

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 12/04/2021 - 10:32.

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2021/12/03/ohio-elections-commission-finds-council-leadership-fund-guilty-of-campaign-finance-violation

Challenger Rebecca Maurer ultimately won the race, unseating incumbent Tony Brancatelli in a ward that includes Slavic Village on the east side and portions of Old Brooklyn, Brooklyn Centre and Tremont on the west. She filed the OEC complaint in September against the Council Leadership Fund, Brancatelli and Brancatelli's campaign PAC, arguing that the Fund had made monetary and in-kind contributions that totaled far more than the maximum permitted by city charter and Ohio law.

And it is well-known:

The OEC is perhaps the least fearsome adjudicating board on planet earth. Its function is to make explicit how seriously the state of Ohio takes campaign finance laws: i.e. not seriously at all. Fifty freaking dollars! That's literally cheaper than a single ticket to the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit during peak hours.



With slaps on the wrist this meek, Ohio officials can't afford not to be corrupt.

Ratners control everyone - and protect Rokakis-Frangos

Submitted by lmcshane on Wed, 12/08/2021 - 07:46.

The Ratners control the Cleveland Foundation and Mandel Foundation - but not, it seems, the Gund Foundation. 

To use Ross DiBello's expression - it very much looks like Justin Bibb is just a "smiling puppet."  When I ask Weingart and Ronayne about the Cuyahoga Land Bank - protected by the Ratners - I get crickets.

The head of the Gund Foundation David Abbott has announced he is retiring.  

(HOUGH frontlinedevelopmentgroup.com

@CuyaLandBank

#protection #hushmoney #CORRUPTION)

 http://realneo.us/content/back-1950s-prices  Don't be surprised Ratners OWN Shontel Brown and she will endorse Annette Blackwell... Chris you should have seen that one coming...

HOUGH, Maple Heights, EAST CLEVELAND - these are areas where real estate has been depreciated to 1950s prices - just what the Ratners like, but those pesky unpaid tax liens...that is where the buddies - Rokakis and Frangos come in....demolitions, too - and BROWNFIELD monies 

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Bernie Moreno vs. Sherrod Brown

Submitted by lmcshane on Tue, 05/09/2023 - 01:05.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/28/max-miller-ohio-congress-trump-profile-500187

 

Miller recently got engaged to Emily Moreno, the 27-year-old daughter (and campaign senior adviser) of Bernie Moreno, who’s running in the teeming, “Hunger Games”-esque Senate primary for the right to try to replace the retiring Portman. The candidates are clamoring for Trump’s endorsement—including Moreno, who back in 2016 referred to Trump as a “maniac” and a “lunatic.”

 

Moreno is rightfully leveraging  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-sherrod-brown-received-extra-property-tax-credit-rcna82048

this news, but I am concerned about his new family ties.  Moreno's daughter is now married into the Ratner-Miller famiily.