Veterans are dying as a consequence of local misappropriation of government funds intended to house the homeless

[Zigner]

If you can't get help through "official" channels, then it's time to go to the media.

 

[quincy]

I was vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine and had a rapid test two days ago which was negative. I have worn a mask whenever out of my unit daily since the arrival of COVID-19 in the United States. My background makes this natural for me and, as you rightly point out, I am vulnerable vaccination or not.
Thank you for reminding me of this danger which I can not hear often enough. These people are essentially abandoned here. I do what I can to help. When this became potentially life threatening, I kept going, trusting in my training to keep me safe. That being said, the consequences of the simplest of oversights have never left my mind.
I am going to post the results of testing I had done. I am a combat veteran on disability and I spent my entire disability payment on it. I didn’t eat for awhile but no one else was going to do it. And I know there will be more testing. I didn’t have the time I thought I did last night to do this but I do now. I just have to redact some things. That’s the time consuming part. And it will be right here. Again, thank you.

Have you had the opportunity to contact the entities suggested earlier, like the ACLU?

I think Zigner offers a good suggestion. The media may be interested in investigating and covering a story that involves veterans becoming ill from conditions present in the building where they reside.

You really won’t find the assistance you need on an Internet forum, however. You need personal assistance from someone or ones in your area.

 

[NNNN]

Have you had the opportunity to contact the entities suggested earlier, like the ACLU?

I think Zigner offers a good suggestion. The media may be interested in investigating and covering a story that involves veterans becoming ill from conditions present in the building where they reside.

You really won’t find the assistance you need on an Internet forum, however. You need personal assistance from someone or ones in your area.

https://www.imagebam.com/view/GA1CKX
That’s a gallery with some excerpts from what the lab found and it completely matches what is seen here. If you use this information to extrapolate what will become of me based on what symptoms I show now, I don’t have too long.
At any rate, I did complain to the health department. There is at least one elected official involved here and when I complained, this was the result: https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME2X9PH
They never came. They simply closed out the matter before they even made the most cursory of examinations of the issue.
There will not likely be any help from government, at least not locally.
The local paper won’t touch it and, though I have a lot more than I’ve posted here and documentation and photographs and video to support what I say, I feel hopeless. First, because people simply don’t believe it. Disbelief is a serious issue for me. Some of what is being done here is so absolutely horrifying that people are just going to be skeptical. In addition, where before I became homeless I had a reputation for intelligence and honesty and would be hard pressed to recall ever in my life having to convince someone of the truth of what I say… I now am unable to gather the most basic help in this. And those troubles start at the exact moment I mention that I am a resident here.
i took your advice last time as well as I was able and will do so again. The ACLU seems to be something that will take some time and I’m running out of that. The legal aid attorneys check it out a little and come back all fired up from the courthouse where apparently they find that the management and owner of the property are “criminals”. They are excited and rearing to go. 24 hours later they don’t want to have anything to do with it. The police stay away as well.
I don’t have a lot of hope. Anyway, I thought I’d share those with you.

 

[Zigner]

The local paper won’t touch it

Aside from picking up the weekly rag that's thrown on my driveway each week, I haven't touched (or even seen) an actual newspaper in over a year. TV is the "media" you want to be contacting.

 

[quincy]

https://www.imagebam.com/view/GA1CKX
That’s a gallery with some excerpts from what the lab found and it completely matches what is seen here. If you use this information to extrapolate what will become of me based on what symptoms I show now, I don’t have too long.
At any rate, I did complain to the health department. There is at least one elected official involved here and when I complained, this was the result: https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME2X9PH
They never came. They simply closed out the matter before they even made the most cursory of examinations of the issue.
There will not likely be any help from government, at least not locally.
The local paper won’t touch it and, though I have a lot more than I’ve posted here and documentation and photographs and video to support what I say, I feel hopeless. First, because people simply don’t believe it. Disbelief is a serious issue for me. Some of what is being done here is so absolutely horrifying that people are just going to be skeptical. In addition, where before I became homeless I had a reputation for intelligence and honesty and would be hard pressed to recall ever in my life having to convince someone of the truth of what I say… I now am unable to gather the most basic help in this. And those troubles start at the exact moment I mention that I am a resident here.
i took your advice last time as well as I was able and will do so again. The ACLU seems to be something that will take some time and I’m running out of that. The legal aid attorneys check it out a little and come back all fired up from the courthouse where apparently they find that the management and owner of the property are “criminals”. They are excited and rearing to go. 24 hours later they don’t want to have anything to do with it. The police stay away as well.
I don’t have a lot of hope. Anyway, I thought I’d share those with you.

We are neither doctors nor scientists on this forum, although some of us may have a little bit of medical knowledge and science knowledge. You need knowledgeable people in your area to help you. I am sorry you are having difficulty finding them.

Television networks often have “Call for Action” teams that will investigate reports of, among other things, nefarious landlords. The fact that you are a veteran should work in your favor in getting such “action teams” to at the very least conduct a preliminary investigation. The journalists can also point you to other organizations that might assist.

You are right that getting a response from the ACLU might take awhile.

Good luck.

 

[NNNN]

Aside from picking up the weekly rag that's thrown on my driveway each week, I haven't touched (or even seen) an actual newspaper in over a year. TV is the "media" you want to be contacting.

That makes sense. And I thank you for it. I have become myopic towards thinking locally all the time. The irony is not lost on me that that’s exactly how local authority wants it “handled”. I reply consistently that that’s exactly what they would like. I have proof in the form of original internal paperwork and documents detailing how a great deal of federal money has gone missing. The building in which I live was purchased as a way to make it look like federal funds were spent on what those monies were intended for without actually spending them at all. This was done by recruiting a very questionable businessman from the outside (a civilian not involved in local government) who is known to me because he kept a friend of mine’s half million dollars which was supposed to be returned when a specific point was reached in the development of a local business. At any rate, this man had members of his family take out SBA loans (which were written off by the banks as uncollectable when not a single payment was made) to buy this building out of a condemned status and without any work done on it whatsoever (the county gave him almost a million to do such work but he kept it as I am sure he was intended to do) and put at least 50 veterans in here of which perhaps 2 remain alive only 5 years later. As they have died, they have been replaced by more that also have died. I am getting ahead of myself here, but I graduated from California polytechnic state university in San Luis Obispo summa cum laude in 1995 and New York medical college some years later. “Doctor” to me is a career. The MD degree confers a title but… I just want to be clear that I do not consider myself a doctor although I do have an extensive education in biology and medicine and I have “examined” almost every one that lives here at one time or another and they are dying from Aspergillosis, aflatoxin exposure and are suffering from every other illness these molds would lead one to expect. Every resident here over a year shows symptoms. Young people in their 30s suddenly need inhalers within only a few months of arriving. This is a motel built in 1967. The public archives show, from that time until the present, zero work permits and absolutely no maintenance. This can be readily seen in the county archives and even “Zillow.com” etc. I had the water lab tested and it shows enormous amounts of lead and pesticides in it and is totally non potable. None of the rooms have windows and once coronavirus came and we were ordered to shelter at home, the death rate ticked higher. I have been here 32 months. My poor dog who means everything in the world to me will be dead by January and I have maybe a year. I came here in perfect health. And no one mentioned lead or mold to me upon signing the lease. We were told nothing. If they had only mentioned these things, with my knowledge of such things I would have lived for the chance to be hit by that proverbial bus or whatever life would have brought.
I say all this because medically, what is happening here, is not waiting to be established. It is a known thing by myself (who had to collect data to come to the understanding of it) and by local government, the VA, HUD, the property owner and the firm that manages the property who were privileged enough to sit at the table, assembled to get out of under the pressure the feds had them under. For starters, the county’s road maintenance funding was cut when it was discovered the money sent here to house the homeless was missing. This, in itself, has been devastating. They had to come up with something and by this i mean something besides paying. They let the homeless pay because no one would notice. They didn’t count on a bum with an MD showing up. But so far, they needn’t worry although I know they did.
I became homeless because of a financial crime. My brain is intact. I didn’t drink myself here or pay the entry fee with a history of drug abuse. But I am trusted no further than the least trustworthy among us the moment one learns of my address, that I was homeless recently. I have tried so many agencies and so on and nothing happens. First, they find the story unbelievable. Second, I am here. And, the logic goes, if I had any credibility or were sane, I wouldn’t be. Some agencies have called and asked local government and management here if what I say is true. They then call me back and say, “we find no evidence that these things are happening” when I have every scrap of paper and photos and videos that support all of it. You would not believe what I have. Some believe it instantly and can do nothing mostly because they’re afraid. Most of these are local professionals and one is a regular expert on TV and has been on several shows of the home maintenance and improvement variety. I asked for his help. He was muttering under his breath as I detailed the matter. I asked him if he could help me with some testing. He refused. He said, “This will make national news over night if it gets out.” almost as if to himself. I asked why not and he just wouldn’t. He said the testing was too expensive for me. When I told him I had the money, he thought of something else. For some reason he didn’t want the publicity he thought would come. Maybe his Hollywood years were enough.
I realize this isn’t the place for a discussion or the help I need. I came because I was desperate after failing to get something done that, were I behind my desk in my former home, would have been but a memory by the time I posted here.
I thank all of you for your time and for putting up with me.
There is an apocryphal story… at least to me. I don’t know if it is true. During WW2 the world came finally to suspect that something terrible was going on in the concentration camps and the International Red Cross was asked to instigate. Plans were made and the Germans were told when to expect them. They wanted unfettered access to Auschwitz. The SS went to the barracks and asked for volunteers to attend a “party” outside the main gate. They were told they would be watched and what the consequences would be for saying anything to the Red Cross examiners outside of what they had just heard were the things the SS wanted the Red Cross to hear. For their trouble, the volunteers would be given clothes like those they used to wear and they were promised food like they have seldom, if ever, had before. It says a lot about the atmosphere there and what these people suffered that using this approach, the SS got everyone they needed. They didn’t lie. The food, the clothes and the chance, if just for a tiny moment, to enjoy something again… it was enough for some to take this deal. As the party went on, Red Cross Investigators, each with an SS escort, greeted inmates and recorded their comments and what they saw.
One inmate, palmed a note to one of the investigators as his escort looked on. The investigator took his time and when it was opportune, slipped the note into a pocket. The Red Cross left that afternoon without even entering the camp. “The rumors are obviously untrue. We should bother these people no more.”
On the road back, the investigator pulled the tiny note out and began to read the plea for help and some of the details of what horrors were underway just beyond the gates. The driver turned and asked, “What is that?”. The investigator crumpled the note and tossed it out his window. He explained that, “Some people, no matter what you do for them, still don’t appreciate what they have.”
I heard this some 35 years ago. I had forgotten it. Now I think of it almost every day.
I appreciate the help and will try anything you might suggest. They can’t get away with it. It threatens the very idea of America. At least for me it does.
I apologize for the lengthy reply. Quincy, I hope you can find in this reply a response to your post that follows.

 

[quincy]

That makes sense. And I thank you for it. I have become myopic towards thinking locally all the time. The irony is not lost on me that that’s exactly how local authority wants it “handled”. I reply consistently that that’s exactly what they would like. I have proof in the form of original internal paperwork and documents detailing how a great deal of federal money has gone missing. The building in which I live was purchased as a way to make it look like federal funds were spent on what those monies were intended for without actually spending them at all. This was done by recruiting a very questionable businessman from the outside (a civilian not involved in local government) who is known to me because he kept a friend of mine’s half million dollars which was supposed to be returned when a specific point was reached in the development of a local business. At any rate, this man had members of his family take out SBA loans (which were written off by the banks as uncollectable when not a single payment was made) to buy this building out of a condemned status and without any work done on it whatsoever (the county gave him almost a million to do such work but he kept it as I am sure he was intended to do) and put at least 50 veterans in here of which perhaps 2 remain alive only 5 years later. As they have died, they have been replaced by more that also have died. I am getting ahead of myself here, but I graduated from California polytechnic state university in San Luis Obispo summa cum laude in 1995 and New York medical college some years later. “Doctor” to me is a career. The MD degree confers a title but… I just want to be clear that I do not consider myself a doctor although I do have an extensive education in biology and medicine and I have “examined” almost every one that lives here at one time or another and they are dying from Aspergillosis, aflatoxin exposure and are suffering from every other illness these molds would lead one to expect. Every resident here over a year shows symptoms. Young people in their 30s suddenly need inhalers within only a few months of arriving. This is a motel built in 1967. The public archives show, from that time until the present, zero work permits and absolutely no maintenance. This can be readily seen in the county archives and even “Zillow.com” etc. I had the water lab tested and it shows enormous amounts of lead and pesticides in it and is totally non potable. None of the rooms have windows and once coronavirus came and we were ordered to shelter at home, the death rate ticked higher. I have been here 32 months. My poor dog who means everything in the world to me will be dead by January and I have maybe a year. I came here in perfect health. And no one mentioned lead or mold to me upon signing the lease. We were told nothing. If they had only mentioned these things, with my knowledge of such things I would have lived for the chance to be hit by that proverbial bus or whatever life would have brought.
I say all this because medically, what is happening here, is not waiting to be established. It is a known thing by myself (who had to collect data to come to the understanding of it) and by local government, the VA, HUD, the property owner and the firm that manages the property who were privileged enough to sit at the table, assembled to get out of under the pressure the feds had them under. For starters, the county’s road maintenance funding was cut when it was discovered the money sent here to house the homeless was missing. This, in itself, has been devastating. They had to come up with something and by this i mean something besides paying. They let the homeless pay because no one would notice. They didn’t count on a bum with an MD showing up. But so far, they needn’t worry although I know they did.
I became homeless because of a financial crime. My brain is intact. I didn’t drink myself here or pay the entry fee with a history of drug abuse. But I am trusted no further than the least trustworthy among us the moment one learns of my address, that I was homeless recently. I have tried so many agencies and so on and nothing happens. First, they find the story unbelievable. Second, I am here. And, the logic goes, if I had any credibility or were sane, I wouldn’t be. Some agencies have called and asked local government and management here if what I say is true. They then call me back and say, “we find no evidence that these things are happening” when I have every scrap of paper and photos and videos that support all of it. You would not believe what I have. Some believe it instantly and can do nothing mostly because they’re afraid. Most of these are local professionals and one is a regular expert on TV and has been on several shows of the home maintenance and improvement variety. I asked for his help. He was muttering under his breath as I detailed the matter. I asked him if he could help me with some testing. He refused. He said, “This will make national news over night if it gets out.” almost as if to himself. I asked why not and he just wouldn’t. He said the testing was too expensive for me. When I told him I had the money, he thought of something else. For some reason he didn’t want the publicity he thought would come. Maybe his Hollywood years were enough.
I realize this isn’t the place for a discussion or the help I need. I came because I was desperate after failing to get something done that, were I behind my desk in my former home, would have been but a memory by the time I posted here.
I thank all of you for your time and for putting up with me.
There is an apocryphal story… at least to me. I don’t know if it is true. During WW2 the world came finally to suspect that something terrible was going on in the concentration camps and the International Red Cross was asked to instigate. Plans were made and the Germans were told when to expect them. They wanted unfettered access to Auschwitz. The SS went to the barracks and asked for volunteers to attend a “party” outside the main gate. They were told they would be watched and what the consequences would be for saying anything to the Red Cross examiners outside of what they had just heard were the things the SS wanted the Red Cross to hear. For their trouble, the volunteers would be given clothes like those they used to wear and they were promised food like they have seldom, if ever, had before. It says a lot about the atmosphere there and what these people suffered that using this approach, the SS got everyone they needed. They didn’t lie. The food, the clothes and the chance, if just for a tiny moment, to enjoy something again… it was enough for some to take this deal. As the party went on, Red Cross Investigators, each with an SS escort, greeted inmates and recorded their comments and what they saw.
One inmate, palmed a note to one of the investigators as his escort looked on. The investigator took his time and when it was opportune, slipped the note into a pocket. The Red Cross left that afternoon without even entering the camp. “The rumors are obviously untrue. We should bother these people no more.”
On the road back, the investigator pulled the tiny note out and began to read the plea for help and some of the details of what horrors were underway just beyond the gates. The driver turned and asked, “What is that?”. The investigator crumpled the note and tossed it out his window. He explained that, “Some people, no matter what you do for them, still don’t appreciate what they have.”
I heard this some 35 years ago. I had forgotten it. Now I think of it almost every day.
I appreciate the help and will try anything you might suggest. They can’t get away with it. It threatens the very idea of America. At least for me it does.
I apologize for the lengthy reply. Quincy, I hope you can find in this reply a response to your post that follows.

As said from the start, you are not going to be able to find the assistance you need on an internet forum. You will need to search out help in your area, as difficult as I know this has been for you.

I wish you much good luck, NNNN.