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Public Corruption in Chester County, PA

I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

TRUMP KAKISTOCRACY/KLEPTOCRACY NEWS: It's impossible for Trump to operate in court in a manner that does not STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN. Will NY Federal Judge Dale Ho appoint a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR in the Department of Justice quid pro quo Adams case.

 The Department of Justice & Mayor Adams are on the same quid pro quo side. No one is representing “The People.”


PISSED OFF Judge CONFRONTS Trump MAYOR SCHEME

MICHAEL POPOK



Feb 18, 2025  Legal AF Podcast


"Will a NY Federal Judge use his “inherent authority” to refuse to dismiss the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams as demanded by Trump and his DOJ, and instead appoint a Special Prosecutor of his own to investigate the corruption scandal that’s engulfed the Trump Administration?  Michael Popok takes a deep look at the unique circumstances present to allow Judge Ho to save the criminal justice system from an ethically challenged and corrupt Trump DOJ.



“Judge Dale E. Ho, who on Wednesday will hold a hearing in the foundering corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, is facing a storm of demands that he look deeply into the federal government’s reasons for seeking to drop the prosecution.

On Monday night, three former U.S. attorneys from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut filed a brief asking the judge to conduct an extensive inquiry into whether the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the Adams case was in the public interest or merely a pretext for securing the mayor’s cooperation with the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies.

Earlier in the day, Common Cause, the good-government advocacy group, asked the judge to deny the Justice Department’s motion, which it called part of a “corrupt quid pro quo bargain.” The organization asked the judge to consider appointing an independent special prosecutor to continue the case.

And the New York City Bar Association, with more than 20,000 lawyers as members, said in a statement that the order by a top Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, “cuts to the heart of the rule of law” and asked for a “searching inquiry” into the facts.

On Tuesday morning, Judge Ho set a hearing for 2 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan federal court to discuss the reasons for the government’s motion and the procedure for resolving it.

The judge, in a two-page order, offered no hint about his position and made it clear that under a federal rule, the executive branch was “the first and presumptively the best judge” of whether to drop a prosecution.

But he also emphasized the court’s independent responsibility. The government’s discretion, he wrote, “should not be judicially disturbed unless clearly contrary to manifest public interest.”

The legal and political crisis encompasses both the Justice Department and New York’s City Hall, calling into question Mr. Adams’s future as well as the independence and probity of federal prosecutions…


The law gives judges scant ability to refuse a prosecutor’s request to drop criminal charges. But Mr. Adams’s case may be an exception…


“What is at stake here is far more than an internal prosecutorial dispute about an individual case,” the former U.S. attorneys wrote. “The public furor that has arisen during the past week raises concerns about respect for the rule of law and the division of power between the executive and judicial branches of government in our nation…”


Nick Akerman, the lawyer for Common Cause, also asked that his organization be heard as a friend of the court, noting that because the government had agreed with Mr. Adams to dismiss the indictment, no one was representing the public before the judge.

He asked that Judge Ho consider the appointment of an independent prosecutor, as State Senator Zellnor Myrie, a Democrat who is running for mayor, did last week. It is a remedy that is unusual but plausible, said Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics expert at New York University School of Law.

Professor Gillers said that if Judge Ho ordered the government to proceed with the case and it refused, the judge might then explore the possibility of appointing a special prosecutor.

“He’d be vindicating the interest of the grand jury and the court itself in not letting the case die,” Professor Gillers said…


Late Monday night, Justice Connection, an organization that supports Justice Department employees facing “unprecedented attacks on their employment, their integrity, their well-being and their safety,” made public an open letter praising prosecutors in New York and Washington who resigned or whose jobs were threatened.

It was signed by more than 850 former federal prosecutors and was addressed to their counterparts still in the department. Among the signers was Jack Smith, the special counsel who carried out two federal criminal investigations of Mr. Trump.

“You have responded to ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront with principle and conviction,” Justice Connection’s letter said, adding that current prosecutors would face more challenges ahead.

“Generations of former federal prosecutors are watching with pride and admiration and stand ready to support you in this honorable pursuit,” the letter said."

FROM:

The New York Times

Judge Sets Wednesday Court Hearing to Weigh Dropping Eric Adams Case

Judge Dale E. Ho will hear the government’s rationale for its request to stop the corruption case against New York’s mayor. Former U.S. attorneys are asking him to investigate.

By Benjamin Weiser

Published Feb. 17, 2025

Updated Feb. 18, 2025, 12:01 p.m. ET





KAKISTOCRACY/KLEPTOCRACY governments say the quiet parts OUT-LOUD:

February 14, 2025








Monday, February 17, 2025

UNBELIEVABLE The New York Times left out the $1000 per month SCAM that Musk’s SENIOR ADVISER TO THE ACTING IRS COMMISSIONER, GAVIN KLIGER-25 RAN. This guy has HIS STICKY FINGERS ON $1.5 TRILLION!

 The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data, people familiar with the matter said.


Maybe Gaven Kliger should be called Leitender Berater a bit more Nazi than Senior Advisor to the acting IRS commissioner. 

Gavin Kliger, 24, who seemed to be in charge of furloughing US Agency for International Development staffers, according to an e-mail he sent last week, has been a big social media promoter of Nazi-friendly Nick Fuentes and self-proclaimed misogynist (and accused rapist) Andrew Tate. 

 The systems at the I.R.S. contain the private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details and employment information…


Gavin Kliger, a young software engineer who was brought into the Office of Personnel Management as part of the DOGE effort, worked at I.R.S. headquarters on Thursday, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly. He will be assigned to the I.R.S. as a senior adviser to the acting commissioner. The tax agency is still working out the exact terms of his work at the I.R.S., though he is expected to have broad access to its systems, according to the two people.

As of Sunday evening, he had not yet gained access to sensitive I.R.S. data, the two people said.

FROM:

The New York Times

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records

A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.

By Alan Rappeport Andrew Duehren and Maggie Haberman

Feb. 17, 2025, 12:29 a.m. ET



***

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced boys with little-to-no government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to sow havoc in the civil service…

Kliger sent the instruction from a USAID email address he was provided with as part of high-level access to its systems, along with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the agency's IT system, building security, and classified materials, and began dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.'

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber only' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or $10,000 for a whole year - to access a single word of it.

However, those who were curious enough to cough up the extraordinary fee found there wasn't even that - the post was completely blank.

FROM:

Daily Mail

EXCLUSIVE Elon Musk's chief nerd celebrates DOGE appointment with elaborate $1,000 troll scam

By NIC WHITE and BRITTANY CHAIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 12:12 EST, 5 February 2025 | UPDATED: 14:55 EST, 5 February 2025


Sieg Elon!



Sunday, February 16, 2025

MY UNCLES FOUGHT TO DRIVE NAZIS OUT OF EUROPE. TRUMP, VANCE & MUSK WANT NAZIS BACK IN EUROPE. UNCLE FRED LANDED JUNE 6,1944 ON OMAHA BEACH. UNDER CONSTANT FIRE TOOK OF HIS BOOTS FOR THE FIRST TIME 3 MONTHS LATER. UNCLE LOU WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

It’s official the Republican Party is the Nazi Party. Will Trump declare April 20 Hitler’s Birthday a national holiday? Do we keep the Stars & Stripes or do swastika flags go up around the Capital?


“Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, watched Mr. Vance’s speech and interpreted the message as a direct threat by the United States to the European Union, which far-right Europeans and the Kremlin both seek to dismantle. She called it a plot twist by the United States.

“The plot is we are out there to destroy you,” Ms. Tocci said.

“The point is not even Ukraine,” she added. “The point is the deliberate weakening, if not destruction, of Europe, of which Ukraine is a part.”

Ms. Tocci described Mr. Vance’s remarks as an attack on European democracy that perversely twisted the language of democracy itself, the way Russia often does when seeking to sow division within Europe.”

MORE AT:

The New York Times

Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.

Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.

By Paul Sonne

Reporting from Berlin

Feb. 16, 2025Updated 10:50 a.m. ET




One Christmas night my Aunt Angelina, Aunt Martha, Uncle Lou & Uncle Fred sat at my grandmom’s kitchen table.

I said to Uncle Fred and Uncle Lou. 


“Thanks for what you did.”


Uncle Fred, 


“What do you mean?”


“Thanks for what you did in the war. If you didn’t do it we might all be speaking German now.


My Uncle Fred had to leave the table. 




My Uncle Fred was a combat engineer who landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. He kept his boots on for three months until they got to Paris. He was constantly under fire for three months.


Uncle Fred never said a word about World War II. My daughter Julia & son Jeff saw him on his front porch and went up to talk. He was putting maggots on his foot to eat away dead tissue. 


It was that mold infection that put him in the hospital in England for a few weeks. During that time his unit was tasked with blowing up a bridge. Something went wrong and his entire unit was killed. I found out from someone at the Veterans Medical Center in Coatesville, PA that haunted him the rest of his life. Uncle Fred thought that if he was there they would have done the job correctly. 




I’m saddened and angered by the Republican Party revival of Nazism. 





My Uncle Lou was a sergeant in Patton’s Army. He said the Germans had better tanks but for every Sherman tank the Nazis destroyed 10 more would come to replace it. 






This is my favorite WWII film scene. It’s from Fury with Brad Pitt:





Saturday, February 15, 2025

Philly Super Bowl Parade KYW in Philadelphia, two women were shot in the legs. I went to a NE Philly store. Philly PD provided security. Police were needed immediately.


We lived in Philly when the Flyers won the Stanley Cup.  I think 5 people were shot & killed. Rizzo was either mayor of police commissioner. 

When going to a Philly sports event be prepared to go to the ground if you hear gunshots. Just a fact of life in Philadelphia.


 WKYC Channel 3

“A woman and her boyfriend tried to cut into the lines for the bathroom. That’s when a fight had broken out and a gun was fired, hitting the two victims.”




I went to a sale at a store in North East Philadelphia. Philadelphia PD provided security for the event.


As soon as people were let into the basement of the store where the sale was held. A fight between two men broke out. I watched two Philadelphia officers arrest one of them. One officer said, “You’re not going to kill anyone today.”


I turned around and got out of that store. Never go to a sale at a store in North East Philly. You could be shot. 


Friday, February 14, 2025

"Township limits development Exton Sq." Workers once walked to mills nearby. WWII Bombing in Europe & Japan resulted in massive civilian death. Eisenhower separated factories, homes, offices linked with interstate highways; FHA Zoning.

And the blast zone of the Mariner East Pipeline is 1.3-miles, not "50 feet."

“WEST WHITELAND — Sparks flew at Wednesday’s West Whiteland Township board of supervisors meeting when the three member board unanimously voted after a public hearing to approve an ordinance to limit the number of units per acre, and type of housing units, at the 75-acre Exton Square property.

The dilapidated and outdated mall is located in a 643-acre Town Center zoning district (TC) around the intersection of Routes 30 and 100, at what is known as the Exton Crossroads. The mall is slated for razing by a proposed builder.

Equitable owner of the mall property,  Peter Abrams, of Abrams Realty and Development, and Exton Square LLC.,  said plans call for construction 375 apartments and 243 multi-family units, along with commercial, restaurants, retail and professional office uses.

The new township ordinance forbids the size of such development. It calls for construction of apartments only in TC districts, with life care facilities still permitted. The new ordinance agreed to by supervisors: Rajesh Kumbhardare, chair; Brian Dunn, vice chair; and Jo Ann Kelton, caps residential density at just six units per acre.

Prior to the vote, Marc Kaplin, while representing the builder, said that with the new ordinance that any use of the property would be “unviable.”

“If you put the kibosh on this plan, no other developer will come in here,” Kaplin said.


Builder Peter Abrams, of Abrams Realty and Development, and Exton Square LLC, would agree.

“This is the mall,” he said. “This is not pristine land.

“This mall is empty…”

A couple of residents talked about what they said is regular flooding in the area and already over-tapped storm water systems. Another resident discussed the “growing and growing” school system and “where are you going to put the kids?”…


Development would have to stay at least 50 feet away from the Mariner East Pipeline.”


MORE AT:

Daily Local News 


Township limits size of development after a planned demolition of Exton Square

Residents turn out in force for West Whiteland supervisors meeting

Bill Rettew

February 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM EST


***



James A. Pitcherella on
his crane at Lukens Steel Co
.
Before WWII heavy industry and workers lived in close proximity. Workers would walk to work. 


My dad walked to Lukens Steel Company.


Bombing of cities in Europe & Japan resulted in massive civilian death. 


In the United States FHA mortgage loans to GI’s were created. And FHA Zoning was created. 


After the war  President Eisenhower kept factories, homes & offices separated by FHA Zoning & linked with interstate highways. Isolated suburban living and long commutes by car & heavy traffic jams began.


After hydrogen bomb warheads on ICBMs civilian death was counted in megadeaths. Full scale nuclear war will burn the entire land mass of the Northern Hemisphere of earth. When all animals plants and humans burn zoning does nothing to prevent death. 



If you're from Chester County PA you might know some people mentioned in this book:


 SEE:

Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville.

By Witold Rybczyński


Traces the creation of a Pennsylvania residential subdivision from its planning stage to the residence of its first owners, in an account that offers insight into the long process of development and how it is related to sprawl and ex-urban growth.







The hydrogen bomb made FHA Zoning obsolete. But it still hangs around. Growing look-a-like homes on former cornfields & creating long commutes to work. 

We get around Cold War zoning with zoning overlays to make walkable communities. 


And the blast zone of the Mariner East Pipeline is 1.3-miles, not "50 feet."