Penelope Prepares For The Return Of Odysseus - The Tale Of Jeffrey Epstein In Detroit - Part One

I really do not care about this LARP.

Yes, I called it a LARP.

It really does not matter if he is living or dead because we are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) and the investigation is continuing onto the co-conspirators.

#perkinscoiesucks

So, in watching this video, I found Michael Baden, the world renowned forensic pathologist who has commented on notable individuals like John F. Kennedy, Michael Brown, and Jeffrey Epstein.

But of course, I went for his first wife.

The first wife is always the one who can provide the origins of an individual's motivation, but I did not get that far.

Michael Baden's first wife was Judianne Densen-Gerber.

She founded what I like to call the first residential institution for tiny human lab rats, labeled as abused and neglected, in Flint, named the Odyssey House, a Lebensborn Model.

"I hear a future lab rat for sale in my Mommy's tummy!"

Flint and Saginaw Odyssey House drug and alcohol treatment programs continue as the heart of the Odyssey Village’s holistic and comprehensive recovery management service array. In addition to providing residential and outpatient drug and alcohol treatment services in both Flint and Saginaw, the Odyssey Village includes a virtual village of services that recognizes addiction as a chronic problem that requires a long term relationship through a therapeutic community.

The Odyssey Village is a drug-free comprehensive recovery community that serves as a microcosm of society. Our holistic person approach challenges participants to be economically self-reliant, develop positive character , and become spiritually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically healthy in a lifestyle of sobriety.

These are the new human plantations for live human subject biogenetic and psychological experiments using their acquired goods through corporate parental rights to conduct pharmaceutical and epigenetic trials.

I keep telling everyone that slavery was never abolished, nor was using "The Poors" as a human usufruct through the chattels.

Nuclear, Public Private Partnerships, children.

"The goal is to change one person’s life, which will affect not only their family, but their community and future generations."

You prop up and compromise your chosen "Elected Ones" who would do anything to get that life time pension check of public office to keep their water from shutoff.

You target a population.

You start with the children.

You intellectually take out a generation by taking over the educational system by privatizing.

You start designing tests to run on your population and get a federal grant to conduct the experiments.

You generate some crappy predictive model to support your crappy Social Impact Bond program to help vulnerable populations on your human experiments.

https://www.cenikor.org/
https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/760/031/2017-760031861-0ef3e62d-9.pdf
http://insidedp.com/news/dp-news/715-cenikor-foundation-teams-with-odyssey-house

You creatively bill Medicaid, alot.

You funnel the money, before the low levels administrators of the experiments stuff their pockets to stay dumb, fat and happy, overseas through a fake ass child welfare NGO, then run it back into the U.S. to fund political campaigns to make sure you can keep procuring those federal contracts to get more grants to run more dumb ass human experiments to keep on stealin'.

Stealin' is generational.

Stealin' is a residual of the peculiar institution.

Stealin' is the work of the Lord in the salvaging of souls.

That is how these people have souls, stealin'.

Linda Kenny Baden, Michael Baden's other wife, claimed
her glory in defending her lover Phil Spector & her pesky attorney client privilege issue.

But it started in Detroit, with Michael Baden's first wife, Judianne.

Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber Is Dead at 68; Founded Odyssey House Group Drug Program

Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, a lawyer and psychiatrist who founded the drug treatment program Odyssey House and went on to give widely quoted but sometimes disputed testimony on subjects like child abuse and pornography, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 68.

The cause was cancer, said her daughter Dr. Sarah Baden, who added that her mother lived in Westport, Conn., and had come to New York for Mother's Day.

In 1966, Dr. Densen-Gerber founded Odyssey House, one of the earlier drug-free therapeutic communities that helped addicts recover. She was a leading advocate of such programs, which involved group residence and group therapy, as opposed to methadone-maintenance programs.

She got to know Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller when she picketed in front of his house to demand funds for her program, and they became friends. In the 1970's she became a conspicuous figure at public hearings, society balls and ghetto demonstrations with her bouffant hairdo, rhinestone-studded glasses and cigars.

A 1979 profile in New York magazine quoted Mayor Edward I. Koch as saying that she was ''one of those seminal forces, original, a go-getter.'' He said there were ''few people who can claim as many accomplishments.''

Dr. Densen-Gerber's success at getting government help became her downfall when the state investigated her use of public funds in the early 1980's and found irregularities. She resigned as executive director of Odyssey House in 1983, but remained active in affiliated programs.

Her influence extended to areas like child pornography. In 1977, her testimony that there were 264 monthly publications devoted to the subject helped persuade the House of Representatives to unanimously pass a bill to regulate it.

IPT, the publication of the Institute for Psychological Therapy, reported in 1992 that later government investigations proved her estimates to be exaggerated by ''several orders of magnitude.''

Dr. Densen-Gerber also commented on many other hot issues from a psychiatric point of view.

In 1991, she went to Omaha to testify in court that her interview with a man convinced her he had witnessed four satanic ritual killings. She characterized herself as an expert at deprogramming survivors of satanic cults.

In 1997, she appeared on Geraldo Rivera's television program to analyze a videotape of JonBenet Ramsey in a children's beauty contest.

Her unorthodox approach extended to her psychiatric practice. In 1999, she agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a civil lawsuit over her inability to account for 1,270 vials of medicinal cocaine. She denied any violation of the law.

She was born in Manhattan on Nov. 13, 1934. Her mother, Beatrice Densen, who had kept her own name, was an heiress of the Densen paper-box fortune. Her father, Gustave Gerber, a chemical engineer, became a lawyer in his 40's and was considering studying medicine in his 60's.

Dr. Densen-Gerber's parents persuaded her to study law before supporting her through medical school. She graduated from Columbia Law School and New York University Medical School. She did her residency at Metropolitan Hospital, where during one of her pregnancies, the director suggested she spend an hour or two a day working with addicts. That led to her assembling, in 1966, a group of addicts who wanted to cure themselves without using drugs. Before she found a home for them, they slept in 11 temporary shelters, giving rise to the name Odyssey.

Her original capital was $3.82, and dinner was often rice and spaghetti. Her first permanent building, on East 109th Street, was rented for $17 a month. There were 17 residents.

Within four years, other Odyssey Houses had started to spring up in other cities. In New York, Dr. Densen-Gerber reached out to new populations like prostitutes and addicted mothers.

Her own celebrity grew, and in 1981 The New York Times noted her costume at the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria. She wore a leather lionlike mask and a lionlike coiffure.

By the next year, Dr. Densen-Gerber faced stiff challenges. She agreed to pay back $20,000 in excessive personal expenses to close a state investigation. News reports suggested she had become intoxicated with her own power.

''I remember her grandly lying back and being grande dame to all the peons who were lying around,'' Nancy Hoving, a former member of Odyssey's advisory council, said in a New York magazine interview.

In 1997, her marriage to Michael Baden, who had been the city's medical examiner and a top forensic official for the state police, burned out in a flurry of lawsuits and spectacular accusations.

The marriage's beginning had also been unusual. Mr. Baden said in an interview with The Daily News in 1989 that he took her to an autopsy on their first date and proposed by phone while assisting in the post-mortem on the bullet-riddled body of the mobster Albert Anastasia.

In addition to her daughter Sarah, Dr. Densen-Gerber is survived by another daughter, Trissa Baden of Hopewell, N.J.; a son, Lindsey, of Brookline, Mass.; and two grandchildren.

It always starts with the children because no one cares.

This is a video into the minds of the "Smarty Pants" who believe they are superior.

This is your evolutionary psychology and they have been experimenting with children for a very long time, but no one wants to talk about it.

These people believe in the concept of chattel law where the souls are a legal mechanism called chattel.

These people fear death because they have black souls.

How come "The Poors" cannot freeze themselves?

That sounds like discrimination.

These people are dropping money to freeze their pets, but what about "The Poors"?

 So, if someone from "The Poors" sticks the head of their loved ones in the kitchen freezer, can they claim economic cryogenic discrimination as a legal defense?

 "Freeze my cat or feed "The Poors"?

#Priorities

Some say they lack souls, spirituality or a conscious.

I say they lack a viable brain.

That is why they are freezing their heads in hopes to find a cure.

Pay attention to the people who are so privileged to freeze themselves and the people who get to be used as their lab rats to help them attain immortality.

"The biggest risk factor for mortality is age." 

Yes, these Smarty Pants actually said this.

DUH.

These people say aging is a disease.

Aging is part of life.

If you do not age, then you are dead.

Feel free to provide clarification if I got this wrong.

Check this out.

They are taking about gene therapy using their own genes, while mentioning that their children have genetic disorders.

Gilbert's son has a condition. 

Gilbert has a child welfare NGO trust fund.

Gilbert funds genetic research for a cure for his son.

Gilbert uses children of "The Poors" to test out the cures for his son.

It started in Detroit.

Detroit is #1 in the world for infant mortality and preterm births while just so happening to be #1 in the world for neonatal and perinatal research, and #1 in the world for children's trust funds.

Coincidence?

Nope.

Start with Detroit, or Flint, the major cities with populations of "The Poors" and #coloredrevolution cover up psyoptics, for this is where you shall find your human genetic and psychological experiments with children in the child welfare system.

Yes, the poisoning of Flint was intentional.

I give credit to Chris Lambert for this human plantation crappy predictive human plantation model I shall include in the curriculum of stealin'.

Life Remodeled's one-stop Durfee center adds tenants, nears full occupancy

With three new tenants set to move in this fall, center is up to 27 organizations
Ballmer Group has granted $600,000 in unrestricted funding to support, measure impact
Goal is to take community center model to another Detroit neighborhood in 2021

Brendan Ross
Life Remodeled has repurposed a former school building into a community center, with public use of gym and auditorium spaces and services.
Life Remodeled has made a name for its ability to mobilize 10,000 volunteers each of the past three years for its six-day cleanup of central Detroit.

But its largest impact in the neighborhood could be yet to come.

The nonprofit has secured lease commitments from three new organizations for the repurposed former Detroit Public Schools Community District school building it's converted into a community center, with public use of gym and auditorium spaces and services to help lift people in the neighborhood out of poverty.

Those leases will bring it to 27 business, government and nonprofit service provider tenants in the Durfee Innovation Society center, and depending on final agreements, could bring occupancy up to 89 percent, founder and CEO Chris Lambert said. He's looking to bring the 143,000-square-foot center to full occupancy by year's end.

Last week, Life Remodeled secured a $600,000 unrestricted grant from the Ballmer Group to fund, among other things, measurement of the impact the services offered at the center are having in the community.

"This project is the most important one we'll ever do," Lambert said.

"It's a one-stop shop of opportunity," providing opportunities for children, youth and adults by moving the best and brightest organizations into one building, he said.

"Those organizations are better together just by association and also by proximity and very intentional steps we're going to take to create that ecosystem."

Chris Lambert
Life Remodeled's annual six-day neighborhood cleanup project, which takes place this week, will focus on clearing the blighted alleyways within four square miles of the New Center district.

It's happening while efforts continue to complete renovations at the former Durfee Elementary-Middle School at 2470 Collingwood St., between Linwood Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard.

Life Remodeled is working to raise the last $1.3 million of the $4.8 million budgeted to complete the renovations of the historic building, Lambert said. At the same time, it's continuing to fill out the services offered from the building.

"We're selective on who we let into our building. (Tenants) have to be involved in improving education, in workforce development, entrepreneurism (and) human services," he said.

Three new tenants are expected to move into Durfee this fall:

Metro Detroit Youth Clubs, formerly Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland & Macomb Counties, will launch its first Wayne County club in September.

JVS Human Services is bringing a Detroit at Work workforce development intake site to the center in October, in partnership with ResCare Workforce Services to provide services including: career coaching, career technical training and job seeking skill workshops.

Methodist Children's Home Society, which launched new child-abuse-prevention and substance-abuse services at the center early this year, plans to expand its space at the center to house new substance abuse, foster care and senior programs it recently took on with its acquisition of Community Social Services of Wayne County.

As opposed to growing on its own, Methodist Children's Home Society saw at Durfee the opportunity to team with like-minded organizations to better serve and strengthen the community, President and CEO Kevin Roach said in an emailed statement.

Durfee "is a perfect fit for this career center considering there are over 30 other human service organizations in the building offering literacy services, career training, family services, youth recreational services, financial education and advocacy," said James Willis, vice president, workforce development and rehabilitation at JVS.

Services at the center now include job mentoring, training and/or placement in areas like coding, marketing, retail, construction and the electrician field, basic social services, behavioral health, business support, literacy programs, foster care and adoption services, senior services and violence prevention programs.


Life Remodeled is working to raise the last $1.3 million of the $4.8 million needed to renovate the former Durfee Elementary-Middle School at 2470 Collingwood St., between Linwood Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard.
Just more than a year ago, U.S. Housing Secretary Ben Carson designated Durfee as the first of a series of "EnVision Centers" or neighborhood service hubs across the country, after backtracking on an earlier announcement that a Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan facility in Detroit would be the first.

The public-private collaborations that make up the federally designated centers are aimed at accelerating economic mobility for low-income households in communities that include HUD-assisted housing.

It's the center's tenants that will drive impact in the neighborhood; Life Remodeled's role is to help them be better together, Lambert said.

With the Ballmer Group funding, the nonprofit hired two of three new employees, bringing it to a staff of 11. It will also use the funding to market the services to youth and adults in the community, coordinate with the Durfee and Central High schools next door and to contract with Gingras Global, a tenant at Durfee, to help it measure the impact of programs, Lambert said. A data collection system and set of dashboards will enable collection and analysis of simple and streamlined information to inform funding, marketing and programming strategies.

"Gingras Global will work with our tenants to assist in specific and intentional data collection which will not only help them grow and open them to new opportunities in terms of partnerships and funding, but also hold them accountable to the outcomes set forth to be accomplished by tenants," he said.

With the tenants and services offered at Durfee, Life Remodeled is looking to:

Make high-quality, effective human services programs available to central Detroit residents
Improve scores for K-8 students across Durfee Elementary-Middle School (now housed in the Central High School building), which scored in the bottom 1 percent of state scores on math and reading last year, Lambert said, to improve education outcomes at Central where 76 percent of students were chronically absent last year

To connect residents and other Detroiters with thousands of sustainable job opportunities each year
To reduce crime in the neighborhood

"When you increase job ... and educational opportunities, crime has no choice but to decrease," Lambert said. "Crime is directly tied to lack of opportunity, joblessness, lower education levels and illiteracy."

The success of any neighborhood efforts will be directly tied to the ability of organizations to hear and put into action the voices of children, youth and adult residents, Lambert said. To that end, nine adult residents from the neighborhood serve on an advisory council to Life Remodeled to provide input and feedback from the community, and a youth advisory council will launch this fall, he said.

Life Remodeled staff will work to foster communication and interaction among Durfee tenants to identify ways to share resources and referrals and collaborate in other ways, Lambert said.

Rooting programs and services aimed at helping lift people out of poverty in the community is something the Ballmer Group supports, Executive Director Kylee Mitchell Wells said in an email.

"The Durfee Innovation Society is an example of public, private and philanthropic partners working together to fill a gap in the community by offering a variety of resources that have a dynamic approach for helping kids and their families increase their chances of economic mobility," Mitchell said.

Corporate support for Life Remodeled's operations has grown by leaps and bounds since it launched Durfee center, Lambert said, with newly awarded grants of $50,000 or more from companies including BASF SE, L&L Products, Masco Corp., Sun Communities and White Pine Investment Co.

More than 160 companies have contributed $1,000 or more this year, he said. Life Remodeled is operating on a cash budget of just more than $3 million and an in-kind, donated goods and services budget of $2.2 million.

The continued support in its work "gives us confidence that we can and will eventually multiply this model throughout the city of Detroit, with the hope of expanding to additional large U.S. cities over the next 10 years," Lambert said.

Life Remodeled plans to begin work in another Detroit neighborhood in the fall of 2021, he said. It will continue to run the Durfee Innovation Society for the full 50 years of the lease but move to another Detroit neighborhood at that point to create another one-stop service center and also do annual neighborhood cleanups and blight removal, Lambert said.

It will look for a neighborhood with high levels of crime and blight, academic challenges and workforce shortages, he said. And it will look for another building that's embedded in the community and walkable, like a school building, he said.

Currently, Life Remodeled is considering the Brightmoor, Jefferson-Chalmers and lower east side neighborhoods, Lambert said.

Penelope prepares for the return of Odysseus.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Is Ben Carson Getting In On The Detroit Land Bank Authority School Play?

This almost slipped past me.

Ben Carson makes his HUD announcement at Life Remodeled, the same Life Remodeled that has some Detroit Bankruptcy - Detroit Land Bank Authority issues on property ownership.

Here is the backgrounder, and for those who do not click the link, I have provided the documents of the property acquisition, below.

Time To Audit God: Detroit World Outreach, Child Welfare Fraud & Detroit Land Bank Authority

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I just find Ben's choice of venue to make such an announcement to be extremely interesting, even more interesting than the face of Mike Duggan.

Ben Carson backs off HUD plan that would raise rents

Detroit — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday backed off aspects of a controversial proposal this spring that would have led to higher rents for low-income households in the United States.

Carson, during a news conference in Detroit, said the plan was considered in April as officials were faced with budget restrictions. Since then, he said, more funding has come through, eliminating the need to impose the rent increases, as proposed, in favor of other options.

"The original rent increases were to make sure we didn't have to raise rents on elderly and disabled people and now we have some increased funding and we're not going to have to do that," Carson told reporters in Detroit after a news conference unveiling plans for the first of what will be more than a dozen hubs across the country to aid low-income households in the path to "self-sufficiency."

"The key thing to remember is that everything we're doing is aimed at elevating people and giving people an opportunity of removing some of the perverse incentives that have kept people in dependent positions," he said.

Carson on Thursday referenced a Detroit News/Associated Press article, "saying how horrible we were for raising all these rents on people." Carson said he's told the media that the consideration to raise rents was tied to HUD's budget restrictions. At that time, he said, it had been "the only option."

The “Make Affordable Housing Work Act,” announced on April 25, would allow housing authorities to impose work requirements, would increase the percentage of income poor tenants are required to pay from 30 percent to 35 percent, and would raise the minimum rent from $50 to $150 per month. For Metro Detroit, the move would boost housing costs by 21 percent on average, according to the new analysis.

"As far as the rents are concerned, they’re going to be simplified," Carson said Thursday, adding the numbers used for gross, rather than adjusted income, will depend on negotiations with Congress. 

"But again bear in mind: We would only raise rents if we have to raise rents. If we don’t have to raise them, that’s not part of the proposal. That has nothing to do with self-sufficiency, raising the rents. That has to do with practicality and making sure that we didn’t have to raise rents on the elderly, disabled or displaced people who are already in the program.”

Carson said rents will only need to be raised if they have to be, and he's confident he'll be able to work with Congress.

“Congress will work with us," he said. "We’re already in negotiations with them.”

Carson made the remarks as he stood alongside Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan to announce a Detroit-based "Envision Center," one of what will be 17 around the nation.

Carson touted the plan as one of his signature initiatives to offer HUD-assisted families access to support services and expand use of the limited federal dollars for assistance to more people who need them.

The federal government is not putting money, only support, into the program that is leveraged by dollars from local public-private partnerships, Carson said.

"We're talking about our people, not Democrats or Republicans," Carson said. "The road to self-sufficiency is not an easy one. We must all come together and try."

Carson said the EnVision Centers will provide more solutions to help move families out of poverty and federal assistance to a "much more rewarding lifestyle."

In response to Carson's proposal for higher rents for those receiving HUD assistance, Duggan said he was "concerned for one hour" until Carson informed him Thursday that the proposal was first made when Carson thought the federal budget was being cut.

"Now the money has been reinstated, and there won't be any rent increase," Duggan told reporters. 

Earlier, the mayor told a crowd gathered at the Life Remodeled EnVision Center on Collingwood Street that the facility will bring services to people in the neighborhoods.

"This is about creating opportunity," Duggan said, adding that Carson is starting in Detroit with a place that can help individuals who need it most. "I think this is going to be great progress."

The center, officials said Thursday, will be a tenant in the Durfee Innovation Society. The facility features a gymnasium and will offer a makers space, educational and literacy programs for young children as well as neighborhood job training services. Life Remodeled is a city-based nonprofit that invests in Detroit neighborhoods and has been working for more than a year on renovations inside the former Detroit Public Schools building it's leasing from the district.

The EnVision Centers, to be located near public housing developments, will serve as incubators to support what Carson says are "four key pillars of self-sufficiency," including economic empowerment, educational advancement, health and wellness, and character and leadership.

The effort is driven by federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofits, faith-based leaders, public housing authorities and others. The centers, officials said, will leverage public-private partnerships to connect HUD-assisted households with services that offer pathways to self-sufficiency.

"All of us together, we are the answer," said Chris Lambert, Life Remodeled founder.

In Michigan, there will be two centers in Detroit and a third in Inkster, according to a HUD news release.

Other centers will be located in states from California to Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.

Detroit City Councilman Gabe Leland said after the event that he's excited about the center and that Carson was in Detroit to announce it. But Carson's focus forward has to be on negotiations in Washington, D.C., he said.

"Mr. Carson needs to be in Washington, negotiating the principles that he talked about today and spending more time with Congress," Leland said. "I'm not sure he accurately explained the rough and tumble relationship that Congress has with this president. Carson should be in Washington to boost up those relationships and get to work."

Detroit Public Schools and Life Remodeled Lease of 12-30-2016 for Property of 1945 Webb, Detroit, Michigan by Beverly Tran on Scribd

1945 Webb - Detroit, Michigan Deed and Taxes by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Walbridge, John Rakolta, Detroit Land Bank Authority & Life Remodeled - How To Get An UAE Ambassadorship By Stealin' The Child, Land & Votes Of Detroit

UPDATE: http://www.walbridge.com is in error status.

John Rakolta, Jr. is going to be UAE ambassador.

John has Walbridge.

Walbridge partners with Life Remodeled rehabbing blighted buildings.

Life Remodeled got properties from the Detroit Bankruptcy.

During the SIGTARP investigation, the questions of Walbridge contracts with the Detroit Land Bank Authority have been called into question because the Detroit Land Bank Authority never incorporated, which makes it difficult to enter into a contractual relationship.

This is called gerrymandering.

CPS snatched the kids, closed the schools stole the school buildings and kept all the money. 

Project Name: Skillman Good Neighborhoods Description: The Skillman Foundation began a neighborhood-based children’s change effort in 2006 called Good Neighborhoods. The neighborhoods – Brightmoor (NRSA 5), Chadsey Condon(NRSA 3), Cody Rouge, Northend Central Woodward (NRSA 4), Osborn (NRSA2) and Southwest Detroit (NRSA 3) -- were selected because of the large numbers of children living there. The purpose is to ensure that children have clear pathways to graduating from high school and leading successful lives as adults. The imitative focuses on four areas: high-quality education, youth development, safety, and community leadership. Focus areas are identified on the Philanthropic Boundaries Map in Attachment D. Resources Involved $100 million from Skillman Foundation Timeline 2006-2016 

Source: http://www.skillman.org/.../Investment-Areas/Neighborhoods

Yes, it is correct the link takes you to a 404.

This is their Public Private Partnership redistricting map creating conditions like fake property tax foreclosures, fake water shutoffs, to steal the homes.

Then, people like Walbridge make fake ass contracts through Mayor Mike Duggan with the fake ass Detroit Land Bank Authority that SIGTARP ran up in the Building and Planning Department with a team of 8 auditors to look at the contracts, like Walbridge, got based on this fake ass report because they stole all the money.

https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2018-06/City%20of%20Detroit%20NRSA%20Application%202015%2001%2005_1_0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2dVnnGKhvMMPBriIbbn5-SON1g5HvFBwuDlz8ciTQHxXG61TLIWjjrqnE

Effects of jail project dog Walbridge; civil lawsuit filed against joint venture

Study finds half-built Wayne County jail structurally sound

So, how do you get out of a SIGTARP investigation?

Donate to a political campaign and get an ambassadorship.

Senate approves Rakolta to become UAE ambassador

John Rakolta Jr

Washington — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved the nomination of Michigan businessman John Rakolta Jr. to be U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.

With the 63-30 vote, Rakolta is set to become the first political appointee to serve in the post, which has traditionally been filled by career foreign-service officers.

Michigan U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters voted in favor of Rakolta's selection, along with nine other Democratic senators plus Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine.

Rakolta is CEO and chairman of the Detroit-based Walbridge, an international construction and engineering company that has done major projects in the UAE.

At his confirmation hearing this summer, he pledged not to do any more business in the Middle East going forward. "We will not be going back to doing business there," he said.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a Michigan native, on Tuesday praised Rakolta's business success but also his service to the Detroit community, which includes co-chairing a coalition of business, civic, education and faith leaders addressed the city's public school system ills.

Rakolta served as finance chairman of Romney’s two presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

"Of course, my friends on the other side of the aisle are dutiful in their examination of any possible flaw," said Romney, who has known Rakolta personally for 30 years.

"I'm convinced that the concerns they may have raised are not well-founded, and he is in fact entirely qualified and appropriately nominated to this important position."

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President Donald Trump nominated Rakolta in March 2018 for the position, which has been vacant for 18 months.

Rakolta was a top donor to Trump's 2017 inauguration, giving $250,000. His family members contributed over $275,000‬ to Trump's 2016 campaign funds.

Rakolta is also related by marriage to Ronna Romney McDaniel, who chairs the Republican National Committee and who chaired the Michigan GOP when Trump was elected. Rakolta’s wife and McDaniel's mother are sisters.

The UAE is a major trading partner with the United States and hosts three American military bases including Al Dhafra Air Base from which the American military conducts surveillance flights.

The Senate has not taken up two other Michigan nominees to serve as ambassadors, including the pick of Suburban Collection Chairman and CEO David T. Fischer for Morocco — whose selection has been pending since December 2017.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April approved the nomination of Joe Cella to serve as ambassador to Fiji and four other Pacific island nations, but Cella's nomination has not been taken up by the full Senate.

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Time To Audit God: Detroit World Outreach, Child Welfare Fraud & Detroit Land Bank Authority

To begin, I would like to honor the Redford Police Department for executing an extremely delicate, social arrest, with a professional grace.

Now, on to why this is an issue of child welfare fraud.

This is the quote from the article that made me take pause:

"The church has more than $15 million worth of assets, including its main campus in Redford Township, the parsonage, additional real estate and a “sizable discretionary fund” for the senior pastor, according to Harmon."

Additional real estate?

Why and how does a church, a non-profit, tax exempt organization hold more that $15 million worth of assets?

1945 Webb, Detroit, Michigan

So, what I did was a take a simple visit to its website and, voila, I found a questionable relationship of a real estate transaction in conjunction with the glorious Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Detroit World Outreach is in partnership with Life Remodeled, another non-profit with a plan to take over Detroit Public Schools.

Through the Detroit Bankruptcy case, overseen by presiding Judge Steven Rhodes, who was subsequently appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as the Emergency Manager for Detroit Public Schools, "blighted' properties were "transferred" via the Hardest Hit Funds, devoid of any due process or any opportunity for legal remedial challenge, to the private, non-profit Life Remodeled.

In the particular case of 1945 Webb, below, Wayne County had previously transferred the property to
Andre McCoullough of Quality Solutions, with payment arrangements and payments of past due taxes, where the legitimacy of these so-called past due taxes may be even called into question.

1945 Webb - Detroit, Michigan Deed and Taxes by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Without any notification, the property of 1945 Webb, I guess the best superlative would be, was "miraculously" transferred with lease to Life Remodeled, a tax exempt, non-profit, without any notification to the...current owner (?), signed between Steven Rhodes and Chris Lambert.

Detroit Public Schools and Life Remodeled Lease of 12-30-2016 for Property of 1945 Webb, Detroit, Michigan by Beverly Tran on Scribd

In allegation only, at this particular point in time, this is the agenda of Betsy DeVos, U.S. Department of Education Secretary of Privatization (my lil mismomer), in charter schools to religious, tax exempt, corporations for purposes of private investments through questionable billing to child welfare programs, like, um.....Medicaid.

Of course, I provide my disclaimer that I have not fully vetted this transaction, but the purpose of this publication is for my #Superfans.

To my precious, most delicious ones in the Michigan Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office, go forth, and make Mommy proud...

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Widow, megachurch battle for control of mansion, millions

Redford Township — Local religious leaders are warring with a bishop’s widow over a $3 million mansion and control of the soul and mega bank accounts of one of Metro Detroit’s megachurches.

The war is 4 months old, triggered by the death of Bishop Benjamin Gibert, the charismatic, leather-clad leader of Detroit World Outreach in Redford Township, a megachurch whose leaders believe wealth is God’s reward.

Within days of the bishop’s death, church leaders fired his widow, Charisse Gibert, from her church post and announced plans to sell her home, an 11,000-square-foot parsonage in Northville Township that was controversially removed from the tax rolls 10 years ago.

 Church leaders also are trying to block Charisse Gibert from collecting on her late husband’s $2 million life-insurance policy.

 State and federal court records and interviews chronicle a power struggle over who should succeed Benjamin Gibert, a legal battle filled with palace intrigue, police and claims that the church has financial problems, an ironic twist that could end up benefiting Wayne County taxpayers.

 “The dispute is about control and the future of the church, though money and power is always in the background,” church vice president and treasurer Marvin Wilder said. The power struggle is not unusual.

 “Megachurches that are built around the personalities of their leaders most of the time do suffer when there is an unexpected death or loss of that pastor, as do smaller churches,” said Scott Thumma of the Connecticut-based Hartford Seminary, who studies megachurches.

 It is somewhat rare for a clergy’s spouse to become the new leader of a church, but that typically happens when the spouse is viewed as an equal, Thumma said.

 “This does not sound like it was the case at (Detroit World Outreach),” Thumma said. Charisse Gibert’s lawyer did not respond to a message seeking comment.

 After Benjamin Gibert, 54, died of a heart attack Feb. 28, his widow tried to take control of the church from Detroit World Outreach’s board of elders, leaders allege.

 Charisse Gibert tried firing church elders and stocking the board with family and friends, church lawyer Henri Harmon wrote in a Wayne County Circuit Court filing. Gibert’s handpicked board includes her 23-year-old daughter and a brother-in-law. Gibert claimed her late husband, before he died, named her first vice president.

The move was an attempt to leapfrog her past Wilder and put her first in line to become the church’s new senior pastor, the lawyer alleges.

 “The ‘first vice president’ position does not exist, and never existed,” Harmon wrote in the court filing.

 The move was designed to grab control of church finances and assets, including the $3 million mansion in Northville Township, the lawyer alleges.

The church has more than $15 million worth of assets, including its main campus in Redford Township, the parsonage, additional real estate and a “sizable discretionary fund” for the senior pastor, according to Harmon.

The dispute turned ugly at the church’s main campus March 19, according to court records.

 Charisse Gibert and others arrived at the facility and seized control of the church’s live web feed, according to Harmon.

 A week later, during Sunday services, Gibert returned and insisted she be allowed to speak to parishioners. Someone called law enforcement and Gibert agreed not to take the pulpit, according to Harmon.

 “Gibert did not keep her word,” the lawyer alleged.

 The church says Gibert twice interrupted Sunday services before law enforcement intervened, handcuffed her and led her off the stage.

 Video of the incident was posted on YouTube. On March 21, Charisse Gibert unsuccessfully tried to have the church bank accounts put in her name, according to a court filing.

 The next day, the church sued her in Wayne County Circuit Court.

 The church wanted an order declaring Charisse Gibert is not senior pastor and has no right to control the church’s assets. The church also wanted an order preventing her from entering the church and kicking her out of the mansion.

 Charisse Gibert countersued, arguing she and her late husband were both senior pastors.

 Gibert asked the Wayne County judge to declare her senior pastor, temporarily block Wilder and others from interrupting church finances and remove him from bank and credit card accounts.

 Wayne County Circuit Judge Annette Berry refused to decide who is the church’s rightful leader.

 “The question of who should perform as a pastor is an ecclesiastical question, which the court is not authorized to decide,” Berry ruled.

 Berry also refused Charisse Gibert’s request to have a representative attend church services to collect and count money given to the church.

 The case is pending and the judge has ordered both sides to participate in mediation June 29.

 Apostle Ellis Smith is handling senior pastor duties while a church search committee hunts for a new leader. Charisse Gibert, meanwhile, is holding her own church services at Metro Detroit hotels.

 While the court case lingers, the church is struggling financially.

 The church had 4,000 members a decade ago.

In January, there were half as many members, which Wilder attributes to changing church demographics and a natural decline as members move from church to church.

 The Sunday after Gibert died, the church lost 900 members, Wilder said.

 “When a pastor dies, some people in a congregation don’t know how a church is going to go on, so they find a new spiritual home or go looking at other churches,” Wilder said.

 The drop in membership has turned the mansion from a symbol of prosperity into a millstone.

 The church spends $380,000 a year on mortgage and maintenance costs.

Detroit World Outreach can no longer afford the expense because church revenue has fallen by approximately $2 million since 2010 “and our weekly attendance has dropped significantly,” Wilder wrote in a court filing.

 “Selling the property would cut the debt of the church by close to 50 percent,” Wilder wrote.

 Selling the property could benefit Wayne County and Northville Township by putting the home back on the tax rolls.

 The county, township, schools and others would split more than $54,000 a year, township assessor Holly Cozza said. For now, Charisse Gibert continues to live in the mansion, Wilder said.

 “I suspect she will leave and we’ll be able to sell the property,” he said.

 The fight between Gibert and the church intensified June 6.

 That’s when American General Life Insurance Co. sued Charisse Gibert and the church in federal court in Detroit.

 American General insured Benjamin Gibert’s life and wants a judge to decide who collects on the insurance policy.

 Benjamin Gibert set up the policy so that the church and his wife would split the money. On March 28, a month after her husband died, Charisse Gibert tried to collect her $950,000 share.

 She also demanded that the insurance company pay no benefits to the church, citing the ongoing lawsuit.

 “I am quite concerned about possible fraud and mismanagement of church properties and funds,” Charisse Gibert wrote in a letter to American General.

 On May 25, the church told American General not to pay any benefits to Charisse Gibert, according to the federal court lawsuit.

 American General wants to deposit the $1.9 million in an interest-bearing account until a federal judge can determine the proper beneficiary.

 Wilder, the church vice president and treasurer, laments the ongoing disputes and effects on the congregation of a church that is 82 years old.

 “It’s unfortunate that this has happened and that the congregation did not get to properly mourn Bishop Gibert,” he said.

“It’s a shame that this has marred his legacy.

 “He made significant contributions — I don’t want to belittle them — but they pale in comparison to 82 years,” Wilder said.

“The church doesn’t belong to you.”

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On Detroit Public Schools Closures: "Every Corporation Should Hire A Child"

If anyone would like to hold my 2 cents on why Michigan is on the fast track to shutter its Detroit schools, wait no longer!

The answer is quite simple, well, it will be if I am able to bite my microecnomic tongue for the duration of this post.

It is called privatization, or, in this instance, Life Remodeled and it even has a spokesperson, Chris Lambert, who is politically campaigning with these public dollars and public lands.

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"It takes a village, then pillages the resources."

Yes, this seems like a great idea, until you look into the complex financial schemes of NGOs capitalizing on tax exempt, public dollars and public land, to maximize revenues for their social impact investors.

In return, the community supports the business center, which trains students through federal cost reimbursements for free, lifetime supply of child labor, who will stay loyal to the product and community model for generations.

There is no transparency as we all know, you cannot audit God, or, in this instance, a 501c3, which will own the land, the businesses, the homes, the food supplies, the workers and all other local opportunities.

This is nothing new, because I have documented the exploits of privatization with such fervor, for many, many years, that I guess I will continue to call it out until someone listens.

Every corporation should hire a child, and that is exactly what the future of public education is.

“The law is clear: Michigan parents and their children do not have to be stuck indefinitely in a failing school,” Schuette said in a news release. “Detroit students and parents deserve accountability and high-performing schools. If a child can’t spell opportunity, they won’t have opportunity.”

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette

Please, keep in mind, that I am only calling out the issues of privatization and how individuals are profiting from the ills of the sardonic policies to generate poverty for the purposes of prosperity for profitable returns on corporate social investments with tax dollars to fund political campaigns.

Oh, and I am calling out "The Elected Ones" for doing absolutely nothing in presenting alternative plans to improve the educational and life opportunities for the children in their respective districts, because, audible hallucinations of religous locutions on the floor of the Michigan Legislature or in other political campaign venues do not qualify as a substitution for a policy initiative.

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Detroit schools file suit against Michigan to stop potential closures

The Detroit Public Schools Community District formally filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the state from forcing the closure of failing schools in the district.

The lawsuit was filed in the Michigan Court of Claims against the state School Reform Office, the State of Michigan and Natasha Baker, the state school reform officer.

"Papers will be served today," Alycia Meriweather, the interim superintendent for the district, said during a meeting Monday morning with parents and community members at Central Collegiate Academy.

"Just know, we're standing with you against closure by the" School Reform Office, Meriweather said. "If any school closures are to happen, it should be at the behest of the elected school board. That's our position."

The state school reform office in January identified 38 schools for potential closure because the schools have ranked in the bottom 5% academically for the three straight years. The list included 16 schools in the Detroit district.

The Detroit board of education voted last week to take legal action, more than a month after giving the district administration the authority to pursue a possible suit. The 147-page lawsuit was formally filed Friday.

The lawsuit comes despite a deal made two weeks ago by the Michigan Department of Education, which operates independently of the reform office. The MDE told districts with schools on the list that they could avoid closure if they enter into a partnership agreement with the state to turn around the schools.

The lawsuit makes a number of arguments against closing schools. One is familiar: That the legislation approved in June that created  the district, and left the Detroit Public Schools district intact solely to pay off debt and collect taxes, gave the district a fresh start.

"Not only do defendants lack authority to do so, their actions are based on flawed data, violations and misinterpretations," of the state school code, the lawsuit argues.

"Because the DPSCD — a brand new school district  — did not operate any of the schools on any bottom 5% list for the three immediately preceding school years, the SRO cannot close them ... before July 1, 2019."

That date would be three years after the Detroit district was created.

If Baker is allowed to close schools in the district during or immediately after the current school year, "the DPSCD will never be given a proper opportunity to fulfill its intended purpose, which is to turn around its lowest achieving schools."

The argument was first made in a memo last summer by the Miller Canfield law firm, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the district. Gov. Rick Snyder supported the argument.

But in September, Attorney General Bill Schuette issued an opinion that contradicted the idea that lawmakers intended to give the district a fresh start as it relates to school closures.

“The law is clear: Michigan parents and their children do not have to be stuck indefinitely in a failing school,” Schuette said in a news release. “Detroit students and parents deserve accountability and high-performing schools. If a child can’t spell opportunity, they won’t have opportunity.”

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