I know Jack Dorsey is by Bill's side as an emotional support, or at least he should be.
Perhaps, Bill and Jack can run another fundraiser on twitter while the insurance company, and others, investigate the origins...of stuff...and get rid of the blight.
BLOOMFIELD TWP., Mich. (FOX 2) - A massive house fire broke out in a Bloomfield Township home that backed up to the Oakland Hills Golf and Country Club.
The blaze happened Friday night destroying a 7,000 square-foot residence at Lahser and Quarton. By 10 p.m. firefighters were still working on putting out hot spots. The residence is the home of Twitter philanthropist Bill Pulte's father, according to family, though police and fire did not confirm it. Pulte is the grandson of the late founder of home-building giant PulteGroup.
The good news is that nobody was injured but the home is a total loss. The couple got out and they got their puppy out too, but every picture and family memory left insideFOX 2 photographer Todd Brangen shot incredible video of the fast-moving fire.
This house fire reduced a mansion to a total loss Friday.
It all started when the owners smelled smoke from the fire which started in the garage and they called 911.
Bloomfield Twp. Fire Chief John LeRoy spoke about how the size of the house worked against those fighting the fire.
"The bigger the house the more wide-open spaces there are," LeRoy said. "They tend to move faster and there is nothing to hold the fire back. Once it gets into the house it is very difficult to stop.
"We have deployed master streams which are large volume hoses which allows us to deploy massive amounts of water and we are flowing as much water as the system will give us."
Are you an elected official who used your office for the purposes of stealin' the children, land & votes?
Did you ever generate fraudulent governmental documents for the purposes of going shopping, casino, or just to tighten up your yaki weave that has pulled out half the natural hair on your head?
Did you ever run money through your child welfare NGO or its children's trust fund leftover from your political campaign, after you got elected?
Did your nonprofit get a land bank property?
Did your campaign get a land bank property?
Did you ever help procure for your ghetto ass boyfriend a public contract?
Did you ever forge a congressional missive?
Did you ever bear false witness into the public record?
Did you conspire in a coup to take out an elected official?
Well, if you have made it through this unenumerated list of queries without experiencing a rapid increase in heart palpitations, then you should find this livestream of the cyberperp walk to be quite pleasureable.
If not, you just might be one of the "Elected Ones" because you just do not care about anything but your next outfit.
June Hamilton Dean on Wednesday afternoon surrendered at the St. Clair County Jail to be processed for a felony loan fraud charge. Charges state she and her brother, former East St. Louis Township supervisor Oliver Hamilton, took out a $200,000 loan.
June Hamilton-Dean, the East St. Louis community development and TIF director and former city councilman, was found guilty on one count each of forgery and public contractor misconduct in St. Clair County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Hamilton Dean, 56, was charged with “knowingly making a false document,” a false letter of employment for another person “with the intent to defraud.”
Jury selection was completed Monday. Testimony and arguments were Tuesday. The jury deliberated less than an hour before reaching a verdict.
Both counts are class 3 felonies that carry possible sentences of either 30 months probation or prison terms of two to five years. Hamilton-Dean may also be ordered to pay restitution of up to $25,000.
Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 17.
The Transposable Model of the Cyberperp Walk of the "Elected Ones"
“I still maintain my innocence and have maintained my innocence from the beginning,” she said outside the courtroom following the verdict.
Hamilton-Dean was among seven metro-east public officials, which included her brother, Oliver Hamilton, who were arrested in December 2016 on corruption charges.
Oliver Hamilton was sentenced to five years in federal prison for wire fraud for making more than $230,000 in “questionable purchases” on a township-issued American Express card while he was East St. Louis Township supervisor. Among the purchases were trips to Las Vegas, supplies for his business, gasoline for his personal truck, car washes, and donations and gifts to friends.
The discovery of the credit card purchases were part of a BND investigation.
“This is politically motivated,” Hamilton-Dean said Tuesday. “They are punishing me for my brother. This is the classic example of voter intimidation, it’s classic harassment, and malicious prosecution motivated by corrupt individuals who use the justice system to settle the score.”
Two additional counts of loan fraud against Hamilton-Dean filed in 2017, relating to funds borrowed for a township youth program, were dropped.
In July, East St. Louis City Manager Brooke Smith hired Hamilton-Dean as the community development and TIF director without a vote of the City Council at a salary of $73,000 per year. The department has an annual budget of about $12 million.
East St. Louis Mayor Robert Eastern III defended the hiring of Hamilton-Dean, citing her more than 30 years of work for the Defense Department, including as a lead financial analyst and acting branch chief. He said in July that he would monitor her legal issues and “if warranted, we will re-evaluate the position at that time.”
Mike Duggan took over the Blight Demolition Program through the Detroit Land Bank Authority, which never incorporated, but the LLC was dissolved by Bill *Smooches* Schuette, the Former Michigan Attorney General, and ended up in an ongoing SIGTARP investigation.
Then, Bill Pulte hooked up with Jack Dorsey to run another TARP gerrymandering scam in St. Louis.
And that ends my tale of why Bill Pulte Sucks.
Defango has another tale of why Bill Pulte Sucks.
Who is Bill Pulte? He's the Grandson Of Real Estate Magnate Is Trending On Twitter For Giving Out $100,000 and more. He's connected to one of the biggest housing builders in the United States with a rather unsavory reputation. Deep Diving into the money give away is only part of the puzzle of what is going on here. Did you know you have to pay 10 bucks to become a Teammate to collect if you win the prize? How about the horror stories off all the people talking about getting blocked by him for speaking up.
Businessmen connect over social media platform
Both men contributed for the roughly $500,000 effort in St. Louis
Pulte also running direct giving campaign on Twitter.
Bill Pulte & Jack Dorsey
Bill Pulte (left) is taking his Blight Authority program to Twitter CEO's hometown of St. Louis. The men connected on the social media platform.
Bill Pulte's blight removal efforts are getting the help of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey in St. Louis.
Pulte, managing partner of Pontiac-based Pulte Capital Partners LLC and grandson of the late homebuilding legend William J. Pulte, is using his Pontiac-based Blight Authority nonprofit to eliminate blight on more than 150 properties in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood in St. Louis along with Dorsey, a native of the city.
"I got connected with him and he seems like he really wants to give back and he was very interested in the blight work we have done in Detroit and Pontiac," Pulte said Thursday. "He and I had a conversation, and I said, 'What about St. Louis?' Without hesitation, Jack was like, 'Let's do it.'"
A formal announcement is expected Friday.
Both men contributed to the Blight Authority for the roughly $500,000 effort after being connected over Dorsey's social media platform, Pulte said.
Demolition in St. Louis has begun and Pulte said he believes "a significant amount" should be done by the end of the day Friday.
The efforts in St. Louis model the work Pulte has done in Pontiac and, earlier, Detroit.
In those cities, primarily Pontiac, the cost of blight removal was lowered because the Blight Authority would target heavily blighted areas and clear it all out at once, achieving economies of scale and reducing costs.
Pulte, whose blight removal efforts in Detroit began in 2013, stopped doing demolition work in the city at the request of officials there and in 2014 started working in Pontiac.
In November, Pulte and Pontiac and Oakland County officials said residential blight in the county seat is expected to be eliminated by the end of this year. At that time, there were 99 homes left to be demolished out of the 916 when the effort started. It cost about $12,400 per home to demolish, putting the project at about $10 million currently.
Pulte, 31, has long talked about expanding the blight removal efforts to other cities around the country, including Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami and several in Ohio.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that there are "some 7,000 vacant buildings, most beyond repair, and over 10,000 vacant lots" in the city of about 300,000.
Dorsey co-founded Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) in San Francisco in 2006 and it has a market capitalization of $28.95 billion. Dorsey is worth $5.7 billion, according to Forbes. Dorsey is also a co-founder of Square, a mobile payment company.
Twitter philanthropy
Pulte has also made news recently for his direct giving on Twitter.
Last week, he announced that he would give away $100,000 by the end of the year.
Almost immediately after that, President Donald Trump retweeted Pulte's pledge to give $30,000 to a veteran with a presidential retweet.
On Friday, Pulte honored that pledge by giving a $20,000 Chevrolet Trax and $10,000 in cash to a veteran in need of a vehicle.
He has also made appearances on Fox News and been pledging donations in exchange for retweets by celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and others.
"I'm well over $40,000," he said of his giving.
Pulte also said his campaign has spurred other people to donate in amounts small and large on Twitter.
