Comments on: Another Guilty Plea in Tax Sale Rigging http://baltimorerealestateinvestingblog.com/2010/01/guilty-plea-in-tax-sale-rigging/ Ned Carey's Comments on Real Estate Investing, Business and Finance Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ned http://baltimorerealestateinvestingblog.com/2010/01/guilty-plea-in-tax-sale-rigging/comment-page-1/#comment-11116 Ned Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:22:31 +0000 http://baltimorerealestateinvestingblog.com/?p=1001#comment-11116 Wow what a story. I wish you luck you choose to pursue it. Perhaps the papers or news media would be interested. News media is always looking for a good story. Ned Wow what a story. I wish you luck you choose to pursue it. Perhaps the papers or news media would be interested. News media is always looking for a good story.

Ned

]]> By: Homar Marchebout http://baltimorerealestateinvestingblog.com/2010/01/guilty-plea-in-tax-sale-rigging/comment-page-1/#comment-9970 Homar Marchebout Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:44:57 +0000 http://baltimorerealestateinvestingblog.com/?p=1001#comment-9970 You are lucky enough to live in a place where the authorities are honest and do their job. Carlstadt, NJ corrupt public officials robbed my partner and me of our house through a rigged tax sale, and on tax debt that their collector could not even prove existed... The official audits for the years claimed by the municipality as "delinquent" deny the existence of any debt in our RE tax account. Our own RE tax account records, which would prove decisively whether we were actually in arrears or current with our tax payments are being concealed by the town, despite subpoenas and OPRA requests from us for their production. There is even sworn, undisputed testimony by bidders present at the tax sale who witnessed the collector withdraw our tax lien from its otherwise lawful sale, without public announcement on whether its sale would resume, nor when, as demanded by law. The collector admitted to me, years after the tax sale, during the foreclosure process with which the purchaser of our tax lien surprised us, that he had sold our tax lien after tax sale hours and outside of public bidding to a friend of his, who was also uncle to one of the Carlstadt councilmen, because "someone called him on the day of the tax sale", wanting to "help us retain our interest in our property" by "redeeming our delinquent taxes"... But, since that person never showed up, after the tax sale was over, his friend stopped by to see if there were "any liens left", and since ours was the only one, the collector sold it to him. How convenient. And yet, no court, nor authority, at all, wants to do its job and act against these criminals! My partner is an elderly, ill man, so I guess they are just hoping he'll die soon... It's a dark day for America when our authorities abide by public corruption. You are lucky enough to live in a place where the authorities are honest and do their job. Carlstadt, NJ corrupt public officials robbed my partner and me of our house through a rigged tax sale, and on tax debt that their collector could not even prove existed… The official audits for the years claimed by the municipality as “delinquent” deny the existence of any debt in our RE tax account. Our own RE tax account records, which would prove decisively whether we were actually in arrears or current with our tax payments are being concealed by the town, despite subpoenas and OPRA requests from us for their production.

There is even sworn, undisputed testimony by bidders present at the tax sale who witnessed the collector withdraw our tax lien from its otherwise lawful sale, without public announcement on whether its sale would resume, nor when, as demanded by law. The collector admitted to me, years after the tax sale, during the foreclosure process with which the purchaser of our tax lien surprised us, that he had sold our tax lien after tax sale hours and outside of public bidding to a friend of his, who was also uncle to one of the Carlstadt councilmen, because “someone called him on the day of the tax sale”, wanting to “help us retain our interest in our property” by “redeeming our delinquent taxes”… But, since that person never showed up, after the tax sale was over, his friend stopped by to see if there were “any liens left”, and since ours was the only one, the collector sold it to him. How convenient.

And yet, no court, nor authority, at all, wants to do its job and act against these criminals! My partner is an elderly, ill man, so I guess they are just hoping he’ll die soon… It’s a dark day for America when our authorities abide by public corruption.

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