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8th September 2013, 23:27
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VA Land Deals Are Illegal
By Robert L. Rosebrock
LOS ANGELES – Fifty years and one day after Dr. Martin Luther King’s legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, a Federal Judge entered a Summary Judgment against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for engaging in illegal real estate dealings with alleged sharing agreements at the largest VA in the nation.
On August 29, Judge S. James Otero issued a Court Order that was brief and explicit as a total of nine unlawful sharing agreements exploiting Veterans property were terminated in just nine words: “These agreements are unauthorized by law, and therefore void.”
Thus, he enforced what everybody knew … that these agreements are fraudulent … including a public park arrangement with Veterans Park Conservancy which is a local homeowner group, UCLA’s state-of-the-art baseball stadium, Brentwood School’s private athletic complex, Westside Breakers private soccer field, Sodexo-Marriott Hotel laundry facility, Twentieth Century Fox storage facilities, et al.
After years of battling the VA over this scam, Veterans declared victory in this landmark lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU) and their formidable legal team headed by Mark Rosenbaum, with co-counsels that represent some of America’s most successful law firms along with the best legal scholars in the nation.
In filing the lawsuit, they had concluded what John Rowan, the national President of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), unabashedly reaffirmed, that the VA sharing agreements are “unethical and blatantly illegal.” VVA is a Plaintiff in this victorious lawsuit.
On September 1, members and supporters of the Old Veterans Guard (OVG) gathered for their 285th consecutive Sunday Rally of the Veterans Revolution to “Save Our Veterans Home” and to “Bring Our Homeless Veterans HOME.”
Fellow Veterans humbly rejoiced in this legal victory over the VA, which had secretly manipulated unlawful land deals at the painful expense of disabled and homeless Veterans for whom this property was exclusively deeded 125 years ago.
As a result of this egregious misappropriation of Veterans property, Los Angeles has become our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans, while the Los Angeles VA has become a national disgrace.
Veterans Promissory Note is a Forged Check
In Dr. King’s famed Civil Rights speech, he admonished our Government’s breach of the ‘promissory note’ enshrined in our Declaration of Independence that pledges equality for all, along with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’ “, he justly and morally proclaimed.
The Veterans “Promised Land” in Los Angeles is a national debt with a ‘promissory note’ that’s collateralized by an 1887 Act of Congress and a legal Deed of 1888, instituting an inviolable sacred trust that mandates our Federal Government to “permanently maintain a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.”
The “Home” is not an act of charity, but an earned reward that would forever warrant safe shelter and care for disabled and impoverished Veterans, beginning with Volunteer Soldiers of the Union Army who bravely fought against slavery during the Civil War.
For more than a century, grateful Americans patriotically honored this moral responsibility.
Then, the modern-day robber barons and land hustlers snuck in and cut backroom deals with corrupt VA bureaucrats and complicit politicians as this hallowed land was pillaged, plundered and leased for non-Veteran use.
The U.S. Attorneys who defended the Government in this lawsuit, claimed it was necessary for the VA to lease land so that it could generate revenue to provide healthcare services for our disabled Veterans.
Huh?
Are these scoundrels advocating that America’s taxpayers have “insufficient funds” to pay for the medical care of those who became disabled while defending our nation’s freedom and safety?
This is blasphemous!
The Los Angeles VA has an annual budget of more than $750 million ($750,000,000) that is funded through Congress, yet the VA bureaucrats contend they do not have enough money to provide healthcare services for our disabled Veterans.
This is criminal!
The notion that the VA should lease this land to help fund medical services for our disabled Veterans is as preposterous as Congress leasing the front lawn of the White House to help pay Secret Service police to protect our Commander-in-Chief, or leasing the grounds and facilities on our military bases to help finance our Troops to defend America’s freedom.
It’s not at all surprising that there’s nearly $40 million still unaccounted for in the VA’s leasing arrangements over the years, while another $200,000 was embezzled from green fees at the public golf course on Veterans property.
Nor, is it any secret that the VA is notorious for handing out $50,000 bonuses to employees who are incompetent.
Nevertheless, there’s a 2.5 acre oil field on Veterans’ property that’s leased to BreitBurn Energy Partners, a private entity “that may drill until the production life of the field ends,” with royalties going to the Department of Interior and not a penny toward Veteran healthcare services.
There’s a public dog park and recreational park on 12 acres that’s been occupied by the City of Los Angeles for years with no lease agreement or payments, along with Richmark Entertainment Group, a Hollywood conglomerate, operating two Veteran theaters for public use without a bona fide lease agreement or any accountability.
On August 24, 2007, at the peak of the Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars, the VA sacrilegiously entered into an illegal sharing agreement with an affluent and influential homeowner group operating under the ruse of Veterans Park Conservancy, leasing them a 16-acre, billion-dollar parcel of Veterans land — “rent free” — to build a public park “for the enjoyment of the entire community.”
Clearly, such counterfeit agreements were never intended to generate revenue for Veteran healthcare services by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, this was a calculated scheme to deny needy Veterans access to their own National Home so that non-Veteran entities could take over and create self-serving uses for their own benefit as well as on their own terms.
This unprecedented land-fraud racket is a multi-billion dollar forgery that exiled tens of thousands of homeless Veterans from their Promised Land for the benefit of an elite few, mostly by those who never wore our Nation’s Uniform.
Consider how little our government has progressed over the last half-century as it continues to abuse and neglect one of our most esteemed minority groups, “Veterans,” who represent less than 8% of our nation’s population while protecting the other 92%.
Link to full article...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/08/va-land-deals-are-illegal/
There is hope for justice.
Peace!
Article lead in...
VA Land Deals Are Illegal
By Robert L. Rosebrock
LOS ANGELES – Fifty years and one day after Dr. Martin Luther King’s legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, a Federal Judge entered a Summary Judgment against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for engaging in illegal real estate dealings with alleged sharing agreements at the largest VA in the nation.
On August 29, Judge S. James Otero issued a Court Order that was brief and explicit as a total of nine unlawful sharing agreements exploiting Veterans property were terminated in just nine words: “These agreements are unauthorized by law, and therefore void.”
Thus, he enforced what everybody knew … that these agreements are fraudulent … including a public park arrangement with Veterans Park Conservancy which is a local homeowner group, UCLA’s state-of-the-art baseball stadium, Brentwood School’s private athletic complex, Westside Breakers private soccer field, Sodexo-Marriott Hotel laundry facility, Twentieth Century Fox storage facilities, et al.
After years of battling the VA over this scam, Veterans declared victory in this landmark lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU) and their formidable legal team headed by Mark Rosenbaum, with co-counsels that represent some of America’s most successful law firms along with the best legal scholars in the nation.
In filing the lawsuit, they had concluded what John Rowan, the national President of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), unabashedly reaffirmed, that the VA sharing agreements are “unethical and blatantly illegal.” VVA is a Plaintiff in this victorious lawsuit.
On September 1, members and supporters of the Old Veterans Guard (OVG) gathered for their 285th consecutive Sunday Rally of the Veterans Revolution to “Save Our Veterans Home” and to “Bring Our Homeless Veterans HOME.”
Fellow Veterans humbly rejoiced in this legal victory over the VA, which had secretly manipulated unlawful land deals at the painful expense of disabled and homeless Veterans for whom this property was exclusively deeded 125 years ago.
As a result of this egregious misappropriation of Veterans property, Los Angeles has become our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans, while the Los Angeles VA has become a national disgrace.
Veterans Promissory Note is a Forged Check
In Dr. King’s famed Civil Rights speech, he admonished our Government’s breach of the ‘promissory note’ enshrined in our Declaration of Independence that pledges equality for all, along with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’ “, he justly and morally proclaimed.
The Veterans “Promised Land” in Los Angeles is a national debt with a ‘promissory note’ that’s collateralized by an 1887 Act of Congress and a legal Deed of 1888, instituting an inviolable sacred trust that mandates our Federal Government to “permanently maintain a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.”
The “Home” is not an act of charity, but an earned reward that would forever warrant safe shelter and care for disabled and impoverished Veterans, beginning with Volunteer Soldiers of the Union Army who bravely fought against slavery during the Civil War.
For more than a century, grateful Americans patriotically honored this moral responsibility.
Then, the modern-day robber barons and land hustlers snuck in and cut backroom deals with corrupt VA bureaucrats and complicit politicians as this hallowed land was pillaged, plundered and leased for non-Veteran use.
The U.S. Attorneys who defended the Government in this lawsuit, claimed it was necessary for the VA to lease land so that it could generate revenue to provide healthcare services for our disabled Veterans.
Huh?
Are these scoundrels advocating that America’s taxpayers have “insufficient funds” to pay for the medical care of those who became disabled while defending our nation’s freedom and safety?
This is blasphemous!
The Los Angeles VA has an annual budget of more than $750 million ($750,000,000) that is funded through Congress, yet the VA bureaucrats contend they do not have enough money to provide healthcare services for our disabled Veterans.
This is criminal!
The notion that the VA should lease this land to help fund medical services for our disabled Veterans is as preposterous as Congress leasing the front lawn of the White House to help pay Secret Service police to protect our Commander-in-Chief, or leasing the grounds and facilities on our military bases to help finance our Troops to defend America’s freedom.
It’s not at all surprising that there’s nearly $40 million still unaccounted for in the VA’s leasing arrangements over the years, while another $200,000 was embezzled from green fees at the public golf course on Veterans property.
Nor, is it any secret that the VA is notorious for handing out $50,000 bonuses to employees who are incompetent.
Nevertheless, there’s a 2.5 acre oil field on Veterans’ property that’s leased to BreitBurn Energy Partners, a private entity “that may drill until the production life of the field ends,” with royalties going to the Department of Interior and not a penny toward Veteran healthcare services.
There’s a public dog park and recreational park on 12 acres that’s been occupied by the City of Los Angeles for years with no lease agreement or payments, along with Richmark Entertainment Group, a Hollywood conglomerate, operating two Veteran theaters for public use without a bona fide lease agreement or any accountability.
On August 24, 2007, at the peak of the Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars, the VA sacrilegiously entered into an illegal sharing agreement with an affluent and influential homeowner group operating under the ruse of Veterans Park Conservancy, leasing them a 16-acre, billion-dollar parcel of Veterans land — “rent free” — to build a public park “for the enjoyment of the entire community.”
Clearly, such counterfeit agreements were never intended to generate revenue for Veteran healthcare services by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, this was a calculated scheme to deny needy Veterans access to their own National Home so that non-Veteran entities could take over and create self-serving uses for their own benefit as well as on their own terms.
This unprecedented land-fraud racket is a multi-billion dollar forgery that exiled tens of thousands of homeless Veterans from their Promised Land for the benefit of an elite few, mostly by those who never wore our Nation’s Uniform.
Consider how little our government has progressed over the last half-century as it continues to abuse and neglect one of our most esteemed minority groups, “Veterans,” who represent less than 8% of our nation’s population while protecting the other 92%.
Link to full article...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/08/va-land-deals-are-illegal/
There is hope for justice.
Peace!