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KernWatch...May 15, 2005

Dick Kern e-mailed the following Hutchinson & Upcher story this morning...lots of good backgroud information about the case.

David:

Discovered H-U's scam at 287 Hoyt where they had a "4 you 2 Rent" sign with a phone # next to a HUD sign. Turned out they bought the house, with their stock mini-blinds hanging in all their houses by 2 nails on front windows to spiff-ify appearance, from HUD for a couple thousand, but in their greed & HUD's chaos it was still being maintained by HUD's later-fired "InTown Management".

In the H-U phone message they listed 39 Oxford (also owned 96 Oxford) & 157 Massachusetts (nextdoor to City Finance chief Jim Milroy) as places to come for apartments on designated days, but I never found them their at times & places stated.

287 Hoyt, 157 Mass & 340 Mass (next to a blighted WSNHS house at 344 Mass & blighted 338 Denmarc7-Goleman house) were all demolished recently. H-U's 500 Mass is being slowly rehabbed by an elderly Hispanic man depressed by loss of his wife to a heart attack.

Later Venere confronted me on Delaware downtown in a car with Virginia plates, throwing open the door in front of my bike, just to catch my attention. The only other time I saw him was in housing Court with Terry McKelvey, who later 'helped" McLeod try to silence me on a similar scam by H-U disciples Amherst Realtor Joe Wooley & scam partners girlfriend Bernardine Julius & Buff State cop Patrick Freeman.

Finally I talked to a man loading a U-Haul outside their apparent residence on LaSalle (address?), who immediately called H-U, apparently inside . . last time they were seen in Bflo.

They had earlier opened a "cultural center" in the old TV studio on Main above Utica, ad in Challenger, & posters all over, offering free tickets to council folks . . but banning me from entering. They also bought the restaurant 2 doors south, forget addresses.

The father Rev. Whitbourne, whose wife Ingrid played the 'race card" on me, lived at 96 Dorris, near the Church of Prophesy on corner Dorris & Bailey. The parents began the scam but were never charged, apparently moving to Brit VI as H-U fled town.

Note that the 'Jesus factor' enters many housing scams . . from Palano, to Graham & Glushefski at Cornerstone, to Drati . . a particular irritation to me as a former "pre-theo", now badly fallen from grace!

Luckily neither H-U, nor Wizig, had ties to Frank Clark so my "harassment" of them went unprosecuted!!!

Incidentally, there are 135 Wizig parcels back on the in-rem list (14 NY Liberty, 64 NonProfit Training Center, 40 JD Max, & 17 Remco) and two H-U parcels . . . .

so the merry-go-round spins on.

Dick