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Cuyahoga County Land Bank - REPORT Fraud & Waste to HUDSubmitted by Gone Fishin on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 04:25.
2267 West 30th Street, Cleveland, Ohio The above property, located at 2267 West 30th Street, was a "gift' from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank to North West Mechanical Inc. On January 11, 2013, the county's land bank "gave" the property to NW Mechanical . On January 22, 2013, NW Mechanical sold the property to out-of-state investor MSB Compliance Solution- located in Nevada- for $27,900. (County Fiscal Office records show that the sale was attempted to be marked as "gift)
18801 Rockland Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
On February 7, 2012, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank gave the property located at 18801 Rockland Avenue to Northwest Mechanical. On February 7, 2012 (same date) , North West Mechanical sold the property for $64,400. Despite the following complaint filed with the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office mentioning the sale price of $5,000 per house, no record of this sale price was found in the county fiscal office. The sale price from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank is marked $0. http://nwmechanicalscrewjob.com/ Where did the money go that was wired as deposits for the property? " Jeramy states to Ms. Whitacker that the two $5000 deposits will be wired from him the next day."
4487 West 149th Street, Cleveland, Ohio On March 1, 2013, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank gave the above property, located at 4487 West 149th Street, to North West Mechanical.
14724 Grapeland Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
On April 13, 2013, Kamm's Corners Development gave the property to North West Mechanical. On June 26, 2012, North West Mechanical sold the property for $22,803.
On September 11, 2012, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank gave the property located at 2212 Natchez to Northwest Mechanical. On September 11, 2012 (same date), Northwest Mechanical sold the property for $17,000. ****************************************************************************************** The incorporators/agents for Northwest Mechanical Inc are Theodore and Jeramy Ennis. The Secretary of Ohio has their address listed as 3001 Monroe Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. The property owned by Theodore Ennis is property tax delinquent in the amount of $9,603.94. Despite specific rules prohibiting the sale of land bank property to those that are tax delinquent, county land bank rules were broken and Theodore and Jeramy Ennis received several properties from the county land bank.
According to the Cuyahoga County Land Bank rules, purchasers of county land bank property are NOT ALLOWED TO PURCHASE -OR RECEIVE FOR FREE -PROPERTY FROM THE COUNTY LAND BANK WHEN THEY ARE TAX DELINQUENT: Property Transfer Policy and Rehabilitation ProgramIn order to buy a house to renovate from the Cuyahoga Land Bank, the purchaser must:
Northwest Mechanical also uses the address of 1904 West 65th Street. 1904 West 65, Cleveland, Ohio The above property looks like hell and has looked this way for many years. I have always wondered what kind of shady business goes on in that building. The owner of this property - which NorthWest Mechanical uses as their address- is Cleveland Bricks LLC. Cleveland Bricks is another main beneficiary of taxpayer's property via the county land bank and community development corporations: Their website detailing property for rent and sale is here http://www.clevelandbricks.com/AllProperties.aspx Property obtained by Cleveland Bricks LLC: 1. 4302 Fulton Court transferred from land bank 2. 3445 West 47th transferred from Detroit Shoreway 3. 11816 Milligan transferred from land bank 4. 4572 West 145 transferred from land bank 5. 3479 West 90 transferred from land bank 6. 3469 West 63 transferred from Detroit Shoreway 7. 3925 West 22 tranferred from land bank 8. 3437 West 94 transferred from land bank 9. 12413 Worthington transferred from HUD 10. 8113 Connecticut transferred from Slavic Village 11. 13905 Granger transferred from HUD 12. 4463 East 139 transferred from HUD 13. 4976 E 110 transferred from HUD 14. Lot - parcel no. 643165062 - transferred from HUD 15. 23350 Ivan transferred from HUD 17. 17105 Mapleboro transferred from HUD 18. 16229 Edgewood transferred from HUD 19. 3631 Trowbridge transferred from Detroit Shoreway 20. 3545 West 129 transferred from Wells Fargo 21. 13714 Bennington transferred from land bank 22. 2145 Reyburn transferred from land bank 23. 3940 Woodbridge transferred from Detroit Shoreway 24. 3828 Sackett transferred from Detroit Shoreway 25. 3473 West 54 transferred from Detroit Shoreway 26. 18213 Puritas transferred from HUD 27. 6793 Parma Park Blvd. transferred from HUD 28. 9660 Cove Drive transferred from HUD 29. 10616 Bernard transferred from land bank 30. 19302 Arrowhead transferred from HUD 31. 3822 Sackett transferred from Detroit Shoreway 32. 3241 Trowbridge transferred from Detroit Shoreway 33. 3466 Fulton transferred from Detroit Shoreway 34. 7811 Snow transferred from HUD 35. 3394 West 47 transferred from Detroit Shoreway
Regah Real Estate is Cleveland Bricks connectionSubmitted by Caught1 on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 18:11.
Regah Real Estate has been wheeling and dealing with Cuyahoga County property for awhile now. Lots of HUD, Land Bank, Slavic Village property transfers to Regah Real Estate from 2008 to present. Property transfered from land bank, HUD, etc., to Regah Real Estate and then transferred to Cleveland Bricks. Avery Hager is the Chairman for the Regah Group. Obviously related to Jason Hager of Cleveland Bricks. Why the preferential treatment to Regah Real Estate and Cleveland Bricks with county taxpayer property? Why is the county land bank , HUD, and community development groups basically giving away property to these people and excluding others?
Jason Hager, Regah Real Estate, and Cleveland Bricks are all part of the same connected group. Their flipping website here http://www.clevelandbricks.com/AllProperties.aspx
Northwest Mechanical also has ties to Two Aces LLC: Another LLC that is getting lots of property. Two Aces LLC has the same incorporator as Two Aces Re Management LLC- Jason Brooks. According to the county fiscal office records: 1. 610 East 102 transferred from Glenville Development for $ 6000 2. 2212 Natchez transferred from County Land Bank to Northwest Mechanical on 9/11/12 for $0 then on same date to Two Aces for $17,000 3. 630 East 103 transferred from Glenville Development for $6000 4. 19501 Meredith transferred from County Land Bank for $0 5. 22260 Felch transferred from County Land Bank for $0 6. 17914 McCracken transferred from County Land Bank for $0 7. 15803 Delrey transferred from Harvard Community Service Center for $2000 8. 4101 East 175 transferred from Harvard Community Service Center for $2000 9. 5197 Catherine transferred from County Land Bank for $0 10. 5212 Catherine transferred from County Land Bank
I still want to know where the $10,000 went that was wired as a deposit when county records reflect a $0 sale price. Why did the upset LLC owner speak to Ms. Whitaker from the county land bank regarding the transfer of $10,000 when the county land bank gave the property to Northwest Mechanical for $0 ? Where did the money go that was wired for the deposit on both properties? " Jeramy states to Ms. Whitacker that the two $5000 deposits will be wired from him the next day."
"10/21/11 – On behalf of SARTRE, LLC, and Name of Neighborhood Action Partnership, LLC OH, Peter Brady transfers two $5,000 deposits to Thoroughbred Title Agency for the purchase of 18801 Rockland Ave.Cleveland, OHand 4487 W. 149thCleveland,OH. These wires are acknowledged by Annette R. Rodriguez and Escrow officer Lynn Wolski of Thoroughbred Title Agency. Angela Whitaker, Ian Ahern, Jason Brooks and Jeramy Ennis are all cc’d on correspondence."
I reviewed the transfer history and the actual recorded deed for 18801 Rockland and 4487 West 119th Street- properties in which the LLC owner details wiring $5000 per house as a deposit. Records reveal a transfer price of $0 and the deed's consideration is $0 for both properties that transferred from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank. Please call HUD Fraud Hotline at 800-347-3735
Write HUD U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410 Or e-mail HUD to voice your concerns James_A [dot] _Cunningham [at] hud [dot] gov Doug [dot] Shelby [at] hud [dot] gov lucy [dot] miller [at] hud [dot] gov
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Cleveland Bricks - Cuyahoga County Land Bank - SCREW JOBS
Today, May 9, 2013, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank gave Cleveland Bricks LLC the property located at 8501 Jeffries in Cleveland, Ohio:
8501 Jeffries is added to the LONG list of taxpayer's property given to Cleveland Bricks LLC:
16. 522 Clearview DRive transferred from HUD
36. 8501 Jeffries transferred from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank
Cleveland BrickS LLC owns the property located at 1902- 1912 West 65th Street that " Screw Job Northwest Mechanical " uses as their business address. http://realneo.us/content/con-artist-gus-frangos-president-cuyahoga-county-land-bank-con-artist-safeguard-properties-o#comment-33954
http://businessfinder.cleveland.com/13641889/Northwest-Mechanical-Inc-Cleveland-OH
The Screw Jobs received houses from the county land bank and from community organization groups even though the Screw Jobs owed nearly $10,000 in delinquent property taxes.
One of the Screw Jobs property received from the Cuyahoga County Land Bank sold within two hours of the land bank transfer for a profit of over $50,000.
Despite the $50,000 profit, the Screw Jobs still have NOT paid their property taxes for property located at 3001 Monroe Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio:
The Screw Jobs also owe delinquent water and sewer bills.
TAXPAYERS SCREWED AGAIN:
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Screw Jobs delinquent property tax foreclosure DISMISSED
Theodore Ennis aka NorthWest Mechanical aka SCREW JOBS owes Cuyahoga County nearly $10,000 in property taxes and has been delinquent since 2008.
On February 28, 2013, the property tax lien foreclosure filed by Aeon Financial aka Scum Thieves was DISMISSED.
Screw Job Ennis still owes Cuyahoga County nearly $10,000 in delinquent property taxes, yet the Cuyahoga County Land Bank and Community Organizations have given or nearly given this Screw Job several properties owned by Cuyahoga County taxpayers. One property sold within two hours of the land bank deed transfer for a profit of over $50,000.
CV-12-789899 CAPITALSOURCE BANK FBO AEON FINANCIAL, LLC vs. THEODORE F. ENNIS, ET AL
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Land Bank & Detroit Shoreway still giving away property
The Cuyahoga County Land Bank & Detroit Shoreway are continuing the cycle of giving away taxpayer's property to the select few.
On July 3, 2013, the land bank transferred the property located at 3213 West 58th Street to Detroit Shoreway:
On July 3, 2013 (same date as land bank transfer ) , Detroit Shoreway transferred the property to Jason Hager
Jason Hager is connected to Cleveland Bricks LLC.
Cleveland Bricks LLC is the top beneficiary of land bank property.
Cleveland Bricks LLC also received several properties from Detroit Shoreway.
Some of the property received by Cleveland Brick LLC is below. ** this is not a complete list of all the property **
16. 522 Clearview DRive transferred from HUD
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The Cuyahoga County Land Bank & Non-Profit Detroit Shoreway is giving For-Profit Cleveland Brick LLC lots of property.
Indy County Land Bank is hot news. Sounds like Indy Land Bank has the same exact issues as Cuyahoga County Land Bank.
Giving away property to the select few and problems with demolishing everything in sight:
For-profit investors interested in purchasing real estate from the Land Bank must ask the city treasurer to include the property in a sealed-bid auction, and the auction price must meet or exceed a property appraisal, while nonprofit purchasers may bypass the auction process, purchasing real estate for a price between $1,000 and $2,500 per parcel, regardless of the appraised value of the property.
"As advocates tried to worth with the Abandoned Housing Initiative/Indy Land Bank to get properties off of the demolition list because we had good reason to believe we had buyers for those properties, what I heard from Reggie Walton was, 'No one wants those properties,'" Zeigler said. "I knew that wasn't true. I sent more than one person who was seriously interested in and capable of purchasing a single property off the list to him and typically what I heard time and time again from those people was that they could not get a returned phone call or email back from him even after leaving several messages, or if they got a response, it was that it was too late to save the property."
Cleveland Bricks LLC receives another property Detroit Shoreway
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Thorough scrubbing of Cuyahoga County Land Bank
I spent several months and lots of hours digging thru county land bank records.
I consider myself pretty much up-to-date with my research, so any further research on new land bank transfers of properties only takes a couple minutes.
I check their records several times a week, and I will catch and report every suspicious transfer that I find. Just like the above land bank property transfer - that I discovered on the SAME DAY in which it transfered.
It literally takes me about two minutes to perform a search of new property transfers.
Almost all of the LLCs which are receiving county taxpayer's property are ALL CONNECTED to each other.
They use the same agent, same addresses, and meet up in coffee shops discussing their next move.
Taxpayers should not be supporting these Screw Jobs.
I work hard for my money and pay lots of taxes. I don't want my tax money given to some fucking screw jobs.
Cleveland Bricks website - properties for sale and rent http://www.clevelandbricks.com/AllProperties.aspx
Keep it up & I will continue catching you and will expose this issue every single time.
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Cuyahoga County Land Bank gives Cleveland Bricks more property
The Cuyahoga County Land Bank is addicted to giving away county taxpayer's property to Cleveland Bricks.
On June 14, 2013, the Cuyahoga County Land Bank gave these screw jobs three more properties:
Sale price is marked $0
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Transfer Date: 14-JUN-13
Sale price is marked $0
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Cleveland Bricks LLC owns the property located at 1902- 1912 West 65th Street that " Screw Job Northwest Mechanical " uses as their business address.
http://businessfinder.cleveland.com/13641889/Northwest-Mechanical-Inc-Cleveland-OH
The Screw Jobs are the biggest receipient of county tax payer's property.
Cleveland Bricks LLC tops the chart for receiving county property.
Out-of-State flippers meet in coffee shops, plot their next move on county taxpayer's property, and fight over the profits.
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3905 West 20th St.
3905 West 20th St.
Transfers in ONE day from Cuyahoga County Land Bank to Detroit Shoreway to Adrume Yeka
From: Laura McShane
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:12 AM
To: Buduson, Sarah <Buduson [at] wews [dot] com>; Assad, Samah <samah [dot] assad [at] wews [dot] com>; Pagonakis, Joe <pagonakis [at] WEWS [dot] com>
Subject: Fw: Re: Fw: 3905 W 20
RE: 3905 W 20 and 311
Thank you for coverage of the dysfunctional 311 service in the City of Cleveland. I am not surprised that Tony Brancatelli didn't mention that he is the Chair of the County Land Bank charged with demolishing and securing vacant and abandoned properties in Cleveland. You might ask him what are his priorities? He and the CDC he funds had no trouble flipping a property in his ward 12 on the WEST side of Cleveland, where there is still a market for rentals. It was awfully nice of the Land Bank to swoop in on 3905 W. 20 - wite out 13K in taxes and then transfer to Detroit Shoreway Development Corporation, which ON THE SAME DAY transferred to Adrume Yeka. For some reason, the motives of the Land Bank are not scrutinized or investigated. This is one story - there is also the dangerous situation presented by the vacant YMCA building. Please put Tony on camera and ask him to explain these "deals."
AF Number:
Receipt:
Parcel
Deed Type
Vol / Page
Sales Amt
Convey Fee
Convey No
Multiple Sale / No of Parcels
009-04-139
Quit Claim Deed
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$7,000.00
$28.00
394944
0 / 1
Grantee(s)
Grantor(s)
YEKA, ADRUME ISAAC
DETROIT SHOREWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
DSCDO and flipping will be exposed
from Eric J Brewer - support his investigation https://ericjonathanbrewer.com/: (website updated from 10/2018 to https://ejbnews.com/)
Frank. Here's the difference between me and you. You endorsed Ron O'Leary for housing court judge. I'd have launched an investigation of him. You let him keep a job. I'd have fired him.
O'Leary told me out of his own mouth that he was cooperating with the feds when I told him I heard the feds were handling Rufus Taylor. It was our first and only "face to face" conversation ... ever. I'd spoken to him and Michael Cosgrove over the phone when I was investigating how they handled a complaint and were fucking with someone in Gordon Square for Matt Zone and Jeff Ramsey at the Detroit Shoreway Corporation over some shit Adam Rosen started. Virginia Barson, who inherited her family's Pioneer Savings & Loan, was involved. Cosgrove is another one who'd be under an "internal" investigation. Notice I'm not shy about naming names. It's all very well-documented.
Now I know O'Leary didn't tell you and you know how I know it. The look on your face when you learned and your own words were confirmation that you didn't know an employee or employees were corrupting your administration's ability to deliver the services the charter, ordinances, state and federal laws required you all to deliver; and that you'd been administered an oath of office to deliver.
I'm a former mayor so you know that shit pisses me off. You're trying to clean up your government and operate with a measure of "legal compliance and efficiency." You've got an employee harassing contractors for extra money to perform the legal duties of the public jobs he holds; and you've got a supervisor who's a lawyer who should know the laws they all needed to obey and enforce. But yet for over a year, maybe longer, the lawyer who knew law managed a law breaking work force.
Proof of O'Leary's management incompetence, complete lack of oversight and inability to ensure he and his employees obey and enforce the city's charter, ordinances, as well as state and federal laws in dealing with demolition funds and contractors, is the fact that his department was and is still being investigated by federal authorities. He operated with "zero" internal controls if Taylor could hound contractors for money to perform duties he and Damian Borowski were withholding from them under his nose. And it wasn't just those two inspectors refusing to perform official acts until they were paid. It was Thomas Vanover, not O'Leary, who disciplined Taylor for not disciplining his duty-refusing subordinates.
The idea of a department head as incompetent as O'Leary now holding elected office as a judge charged with the duties to obey and enforce all laws, when there is evidence he was "derelict" in the performance of mandatory duties in the building department, is offensive. The fact he's an attorney who knew or should have known he had an employee committing crimes against "the organization" is a "disciplinary rule" violation.
O'Leary should have reported Taylor's criminal misconduct to the highest authority in the city with the ability to stop it; instead of mismanaging him in a way that allowed it. The highest authority was you, Frank.
Taylor's conduct, and that of the other derelict employees, hurt the citizens and contractors who used the completely out-of-compliant department O'Leary oversaw. I personally think a complaint should be filed against O'Leary with the Supreme court's disciplinary counsel.
Every employee's email is stored on the city's server. If council investigated anything they should review the email of every employee in the department for the years Taylor was accused of refusing to perform official acts until he was paid extra money. When I published Cleveland Challenger during Jane Campbell's years as mayor. I asked for all she'd sent and received. I still think about the one Chris Ronayne sent to her about her feet. He "fawned" over her.
Email tell a lot and the employees can't delete them. In fact it's unlawful for an employee to delete an email as a public record. Council should review this department's email like Congress reviewed Hillary Clinton's. The email will reveal how the employees are communicating with each other and the public; if at all.
Demolition contractors will tell you when we started doing a lot of demolition work I sat in the bid opening meetings and opened the bids. I asked the contractors in front of the employees if any employee working for me had asked them for a thing of value. I asked the employees if they had been offered a thing of value in exchange for some consideration by a contractor. I told them all that if I learned a thing of value had been exchanged between them, I was going to have their asses arrested and jailed. One contractor told me it was the most fair process he'd ever participated in. This shit is not difficult. The mayor has to set the example.
Frank. Your building, housing and community development departments are a mess. Backlogs in processing permits. Sham processes between employees and property owners who's homes they're taking and demolishing. Side deals between employees and council members. Side deals between council members and developers who use employees. Those departments are criminal enterprises even today. But don't worry. Kevin Kelley will never approve an investigation for a council whose members thinking two nights in a tent is a public duty.
O'Leary called me a liar. Said he never talked to me. Bullshit. But I will retort by calling him an incompetent who shouldn't be an attorney or a judge.
I'm not going away, Ron. I also can't be ignored. Got it?