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RICO: The Beginning of The End For HOAs?

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Contributed by: Jan Jackson on 11/25/2007

What corrupt, politically-driven HOA board member or board supporter, lawyer, judge, public official, or legislator will fall next?

Here in my HOA, and in many other HOAs throughout our nation, HOA homeowners are now filing RICO (racketeering) actions (criminal and civil), Class Action lawsuits, and individual lawsuits against their HOAs and their HOAs' lawyers.

Why is that happening? Because many (if not most) HOA homeowners have, over the years, learned what HOA boards, HOA lawyers, and HOA cabals are really all about. And that is, getting, keeping and growing their personal power and wealth. Homeowners learned that these types of HOA board members, their HOA lawyers, and their cabals are usually corrupt to their very cores. And while they usually benefit individually from their corruption, HOA boards and their HOA lawyersmust have the unquestioning loyalty of their member "cabals." Such cabals usually are made up of a small group of lesser power-and-money-seeking HOA members and very powerful (politically and otherwise) non-member HOA Industry interests.

That learning experience that HOA homeowners went through outraged them beyond measure and has now turned into action.

Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end of that political entity known as "HOAs" in these United States.

Read on for more about this subject.

Jan

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AHRC News Services
An Article

HOA LAWYER ALERTS & INVESTIGATIONS

Racketeering - RICO- Class Action Lawsuits- Illegal Judgments- Fraudulent Property Seizures

November 22, 2007

By AHRC News Services
Los Angeles, California -

FINE, LIEN AND START A FORECLOSURE - Case studies on America's homeowner association foreclosures - November 22, 2007 By Ohio Sociologist - Boardman, Ohio

Senator John Carona Authored of Texas Property Code 209 and "games" it
He convinces his HOA Boards to adopt home foreclosures for fines resolution which primarily benefit his management company - November 21, 2007 - By Texas HO - Austin, Texas

Homeowner Battles to Stop Home Foreclosures for Fines - Texas Senator John Carona's management company manages her HOA - November 20, 2007 - By Amy McCorkle , Rockwell, Texas

The Law Offices of Philip A. Putman is continuing the RICO investigation of Peters & Freedman - October 23, 2007 - HOA Investigation by Law Office of Philip A. Putman - Santa Ana, California - HOA Lawyer: Peters & Freedman

My daughter ..committed suicide upon receiving the notice of judgment from the court" - "The judge had a trial without my presence or notice and gave the judgement " - October 17, 2007 By Jerri Beardslee - San Clemente, California - HOA Lawyer: Gregory S. Lew - Feldsott & Lee

My lawfirm currently is representing someone from the same HOA as "Sea Captain" - Laura Bieser - HOA lawyer - October 4, 2007: Swedelson & Gottleib

Massive Fraud At Hamilton Cove Homeowner's Association, a California Condominium - Hamilton Cove Homeowner's Association Ignores CCRs, Bylaws, Davis Stirling Laws - June 15, 2007 - By Stephen B. Chasko, M.D., J.D., F.C.A.P. - Avalon, California

Homeowner Association Takes Home of Mentally Ill Person For $549 in Maintenance Dues - Jay Goldstein - June 6, 2007 - HOA lawyer: Swedelson & Gottleib

HIT THE JACKPOT WITH COMMUNITY LIVING? - Homeowners must man the barricades and stop these CAI vendors - July 05, 2007 - By Marie in America - Chicago, Illinois

LAW OFFICES ANNOUNCE RICO INVESTIGATION OF PETERS & FREEDMAN - Information Requested from Public - June 04, 2007 - By Gottschalk & Associates - Santa Monica, California - HOA Lawyer: Peters & Freedman

LAW OFFICES ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATION OF RICO ACT AND OTHER CLAIMS AGAINST ATTORNEYS AND MANAGEMENT COMPANIES OF CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS ON BEHALF OF HOMEOWNERS - Information Requested from Attorneys and from the Public - March 21, 2007 - By Gottschalk & Associates - Los Angeles, California - HOA lawyer: Swedelson & Gottleib

PROMINENT CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY COMMITS TO FILING RICO ACTION AGAINST PETERS AND FREEDMAN - He is looking for boards of directors of homeowner associations to be plaintiffs - August 24, 2006 - Los Angeles, California - - HOA Lawyer: Peters & Freedman

Melissa Colburn agrees to sette her RICO Case Against Peters & Freedman - Settle is Confidential - July 26, 2003 HOA Lawyer: Peters & Freedman - David Peters

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For more information, please check out the articles listed below:

* Orange County Pair Might lose home for $120 in Missing Dues - Ronald Campbell
* Orange County Pair Might lose home for $120 in missing dues - Ronald Campbell
* California Legislator Gives Rights and Money of Homeowners to Collection Lawyers - AHRC News Services
* THEY STOLE MY HOUSE - Thomas Radcliff
* Promontory Crest Homeowners Association Came After Us - Linda Simmons
* John & Judy Hockley - Peters & Freedman & Carlos Sosa foreclosure victim
* Carlos Eduardo Sosa - Hausman & Sosa
* LAW OFFICES ANNOUNCE RICO INVESTIGATION OF PETERS & FREEDMAN - Gottschalk & Associates
* Escalating Fraud A Law Firm with Republican Connections - Taffy Rice
* SLAPP Subpoena - Taffy Rice
* Fiore, Racobs, Powers
* Margaret G. Wangler - Fiore Racobs & Powers
* Margaret G. Wangler - CAI lawyer - Desert Sun Columnist
* John Robin MacDowell - Fiore Racobs & Powers - Judge Pro-tem
* David Michael Peters - Peters & Freedman
* Peters and Freedman
* Michael G. Kim - Peters & Freedman
* James R. McCormick Jr - Peters & Freedman LLP
* Stephen M. Kirkland - Peters & Freedman
* Mickey Jew - Peters & Freedman
* Keenan Anthony Parker - Peters & Freedman
* Jeffrey R. Pratt
* John Marshall Kremer
* Association Lien Services - Swedelson & Gottleib
* Swedelson & Gottlieb - Association Lien Services
* Epsten Grinnell & Howell - Jon Harry Epsten
* 2001 A Banner Year in Texas Against the Foreclosure Racket - Geneva Kirk Brooks
* CAI TRIES TO STRONG ARM ABC NEWS - AHRC News Services
* TEXAS GOP PLATFORM COMMITTEE REJECTS ANTI HOMEOWNER FORECLOSURE LANGUAGE - Ed Wendt
* CAI Lawyers Who Make A Living Suing And Foreclosing On Association
* Homeowners Masquerade as Homeowner Friend in " Homeowner Advice" Columns - HOA Voices
* The Anti Homeowner Lobby - AHRC News Services
* CAI uses scare tactics to stop anti-foreclosure bill in Arizona - Don Quixote de la Mancha
* Neighbors wield heavy hand - Randyl Drummer
* Land of Terror - AHRC News Services
* AN UNJUST EVICTION AND A DAUGHTER SHOOTS HERSELF - AHRC News Services
* Gregory Scott Lew - Feldsott & Lee
* Homeowner Association Takes Home of Mentally Ill Person For $549 in Maintenance Dues - Jay Goldstein
* Ronald Norton Gottschalk - Gottschalk & Associates
* LAW OFFICES ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATION OF RICO ACT AND OTHER CLAIMS AGAINST ATTORNEYS AND MANAGEMENT COMPANIES OF CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS ON BEHALF OF HOMEOWNERS - Gottschalk & Associates
* RICO LAWSUITS ... LET THEM BEGIN - Jan Jackson

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