8. Run out of town - Wrongful eviction, threats and leaving the area. R-u

In 1925,  25,000 Knights of the KKK marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. I feel certain that in 2016 it may have another name, or maybe no name at all, but alliances for the same purpose are vast, especially in West Georgia. The ability of these brotherhoods to do as they wish, to run people out of town, and take what they own,  is no less today than it was in 1925. 

It is difficult for me to express what it feels like to come to imagine the worst in this case. That this Federal Court could be corrupt, in collusion with my attorney, the lender, and the Chapter 7 Trustee. That this court might be dedicated to intimidate somone for political reasons. 

I had expected that I would have been able to pay my Debt, keep my business and property. This was what the Trustee had stated in Court he would do, and what he would say to me until he suddenly sold the property. For that matter this is what my attorney had also said to me.   

I could now see the Trustee had no intention of doing what he had said he would do in Court. This was going to ruin me, and put my tenants out of business. 

I felt it was now necessary to explain to the Court potential motivations that may point to political intimidation. I wanted to detail the previous intervention in my business by associates of the creditors, explain potential political motives, and the wrongful foreclosure by the creditors that rushed me into bankruptcy in the first place.     

The day of the hearing that would sell the property, October 20 2016, I had filed a  Pro Se memorandum protesting actions taken by the Trustee. The memorandum described political events that may provide cause for the Court to stop the sale and investigate the new purchasers relation to the creditors. This memorandum is read in court, and ignored.

The day after the memorandum was read in court,  the “Retired Deputy” asked to meet with me at the Timmons Circle property. He is visibly upset, and with his Ray-Bans on,  his side arm visible, he tells me three times, “GET THE  F**K  OUT OF THE COUNTRY!”  

I don’t wish to complain about some harsh words but, this is the same person that was familiar with the people that participated in my business failure. He had trailed me in my past political activities. Someone that had made it clear to me that he was a tough guy. “I am a killer,” he would say,  he would tell me stories of how he  infiltrated the Mafia in Vegas, and told me my life may be in danger. I can not know if he is working with my creditors Jerry Austin, and Eddie Lawson, but the timing is strangely coincidental, as though someone told him to come threaten me after I presented the memorandum to the court.

How could I know if an X- Los Angeles California undercover agent has been working all this time with my creditors to put me out of business, help create the conditions that led to the foreclosure, take my property, and then run me out of town?   If so, that is quite a network, and if this Federal Court could be part of such a political network, then what is wrong with America?

This is getting more strange, we were friends with the  “retired deputy,”  we spent Christmas with his family, and had meals with him and his wife often.   

The “Retired Deputy” will next start to warn me, that I should take care, that my son might be taken by the Division of Family and Children's Services. That "these people" are dangerous. His words now felt more like threats than well intentioned warnings.  

After we had been evicted from our property, the "Retired Deputy" and his wife invited my son and me to lunch. His wife will begin to cry as she will warn us again, “they may take your son away.”

I don’t know if we are in danger, but I do start to think that the “retired deputy” may have been more correct than I imagined when he said, “be afraid they may kill you.”   

I will now take these suggestions seriously, I begin to make plans to leave the area before more harm may come to us.

At the hearing that converted the Chapter 13 to a Chapter 7, the  Trustee had made assurances he would let us keep the property, preserve my business, and that he would work with me to continue with the sales we had in Chile. The Trustee had explained in Court that he could do the same in a Chapter 7 as we had done in a Chapter 13. 

Contrary to the Trustees assurances in Court, Valdejulli, my attorney, had warned me that this particular Trustee would "rape" me, that everything I had would be converted into fees to benefit the Trustee.  

He was correct.  The property was quickly sold to suspicious purchasers. Tenants and their businesses were evicted. We were given 30 days to move our business and home from a 7200 square foot  property filled with inventory and nowhere to go.  All this while I still had a motion pending in court that would have prevented the sale, and permitted me to pay my creditors. 

It is difficult to explain how fast this is happening, and how confusing it can be when the Trustee and this Court is doing the opposite to what the Trustee states he will do, and what anyone would expect from this Court. 

What should be expected from the term "Bankruptcy Protection"? The obvious answer would be to permit a debtor to pay his obligation and continue with his livelihood.

In a matter of a few days I have my property sold, told to move out in 30 days, I have someone that pretends to be my friend telling me to get out of the country, and that “These People” may have my child taken from me.      

The second Pro Se motion to re-convert to Chapter 13, was also denied two days after the hearing that sold my property, on November 23, 2016.

It is becoming clear to me that all these people are professionals, and what has occurred was no surprise to them. 

Now that the sale had been done, we began moving from the property. We had a storage business, a clothing business, there was too much to move at the Liberty Road property, for the amount of time given to do so. We had little money and no place ready to move to. My tenants were still there, and they too were moving out.

I had been a landlord my entire working life, and I understood that I had been told to move. I also understood that the property would now be out of Federal Court, and was now governed by State law. We were now "tenants at will," we still had rights to the property, and an eviction would be conducted by a local magistrate court, which would give us a few additional days.

On November 24, 2016 we came home and the gates were chained and locked to the property. I call the new owners, and tell them they can't do this, that they must file a dispossessory with the local court. I cut the chain, re-enter the property, and I called the police.

The new owners arrive, and the police speak with the new owners. They explain to them that a proper dispossessory must be filed before they can take possession of the property. The new owners go away and file a dispossessory, I then answer the dispossessory.   

Yet, again a couple of days later they re-enter the property, and change the locks, this time they post guards. They tell me they will not return my business, and personal belongings that still remain on the property. They intend to keep my things! 

December 2, 2016  Nancy Mimns, one of the persons that had participated in the failed Liberty Road business, is now asking me to call DFCS (Child Services). She says the new buyers are endangering my son.

Nancy is similar to the “Retired Deputy,” she had also developed a sudo friendship with us. Her suggesting that I call Child Services in light of the danger that we now find ourselves in, is absurd. Calling this agency will only increase the potential for action by Child Services to take my son. By now I am becoming convinced that all these foes are interconnected. 

December 5, 2016  I ask an attorney, Philip Johns for help. He gets permission from the new buyers so that I may move my belongings from the property. When we came to move, some of my store inventory,  and many of my things had disappeared from the building.

Two days is not enough time for me to complete the move of all the contents of a 7200 sq/ft building. 

Not having enough time or resources to move everything, much of our belongings, and storage items of clients had to be left behind.

January 2017 -  We feel we can no longer stay in the area, I fear for our safety. It was not that long ago that the South would tar and feather people.   

My son and I leave for a trip through the North East, with the intention of moving to the New York area. By the end of January we move North, we tell no one where we move to, not family not anyone.

It is very difficult to be a single parent, and more difficult to get an apartment without any job history, a bankruptcy on your record, no income, and then try to hide-out. The absurdity of all this is unbelievable.   

It will be even more difficult to try to protect what remains of my estate that is now in the hands of Trustee, Neil Gordon.

 

After we moved from Georgia, it took us a while to organize ourselves, and I still find it difficult to make a living. It would be a few months before I could try to address the Court again to try to protect what remains of my estate in Chile.