Florida Eminent Domain Land Grab Crime - Judge David Krathen Closes Pompano Beach CRA Case

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For Immediate ReleaseRe: Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) v. Gil Eriksen

Properties LLC; Case No. 06-004169 (21)

Judge David Krathen Closes Pompano Beach CRA v Gil Eriksen

Properties Case, Launders Decade Long Florida Land Grab Eminent

Domain Fraud through Broward County Court

Pompano Beach, FL, May 19, 2011 – Broward County which has been trying to

shake its national reputation as Corruption County has just added another atrocity to its

name. In addition to the seemingly endless political scandals of late, the Broward County

Courthouse has incriminated itself in its official closing of the famous Pompano Beach

CRA v Gil Eriksen Properties case. “Of course I am not surprised about the criminality in

the courthouse, said a local Fort Lauderdale attorney who wished to remain anonymous,

“but I am astonished Judge [David] Krathen would actually put his seal on a case where

Eriksen was never heard and did not even get to participate at trial. To be so blatantly

criminal. Krathen’s really put himself on the line, and the courthouse, too.”

You may recall the case was one where the Pompano Beach CommunityRedevelopment Agency filed to take Gil Eriksen Properties’ prime historical multi-

million dollar non-blighted Pompano Beach property to resell for private development

under the government power of eminent domain. The first glitch was the fact that Florida

voters had already passed the state constitutional amendment banning the use of eminent

domain powers for private development. The big upset came when it was discovered the

CRA agency did not have the authority to exist according to county charter, was acting as

a shill for the Pompano Beach Commission in land grab schemes, and did not have the

governmental power of eminent domain to take properties. Then it came out the CRA had

been illegally taking properties for a decade. And how were all these takings processed?

Well, through the Broward County Court, of course. Not to help publicity matters was the exposure of the courthouse’s nepotism when

it was revealed that the initial judge on the case, Miette K. Burnstein i s the mother of the

CRA’s attorney on the case, Mitchell J. Burnstein. The arrest of Pompano Beach CRA

advisory member Vincente Thrower for felony charges including bribery and unlawful

compensation (not to mention his recent March 31, 2011 arrest for soliciting prostitutes in

a sting captured by a TLC television film crew) was also an embarrassment. Then the

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skeletons of all the players in the case exploded, with the Community Redevelopment

Agency’s members being reported as being active lobbyists for developers (E. Pat

Larkins, Kim Jackson-Briesemester & Chris Brown), found guilty of profiting their own

companies from their office (Mayor Lamar Fisher), found guilty of government ethics

law violations (Mayor Lamar Fisher, Vice-Mayor George Brummer, Susan Foster, Kay

McGinn), and yes, even illegally disposing of dead babies (Woodrow Poitier).

Then came the ongoing parade of bizarre courthouse antics with the reveal that

the case would continue even though it was previously ruled CRA did not have the power

of eminent domain, eight different judges being brought in to preside on the case, all

ruling exclusively in favor of the CRA, including one of whom who was brought in from

retirement, ruled, and then immediately returned to retirement (Judge Robert Carney),

and one who ruled and immediately retired thereafter (Judge Larry Klein), Eriksen’s

Shutts & Bowen LLP attorneys Alan M. Rubin and Suzanne M. Driscoll being allowed to

suddenly withdraw on very the morning of trial unbeknownst to Eriksen (halting the

highly anticipated trial Eriksen waited four years for), and then the smashing conclusion

of holding a one-sided trial with only the CRA attorney being able to speak or presentevidence and Eriksen not being allowed to speak, present, or respond, with the jury being

threatened that they can only return one pro-CRA verdict or they will go to jail (a verdict

which subsequently took less than 3 minutes to return).

With the massive political and legal upset regarding the egregiousness of the

violations to Constitutional rights and Florida State law, and the discovery of at least a

decade of laundering of eminent domain fraud, it remained unclear if courthouse or

governmental oversight would intercede in this case and finally halt the court’s

laundering of eminent domain fraud. With so many eyes on the case, and going on eight

months after the notorious so-called jury verdict, it was also questioned whether Judge

Krathen was hesitant to stand by his kangaroo court trial and finally close the case,officially completing the crime. Now the official answer is in: Let the land grabbing

continue, and let’s even bill the citizenry for it, as according to the final order, Gil Eriksen

Properties is now indebted to the Pompano Beach CRA some $130,000. How’s that for

irony.

So the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency gets prime multi-

million dollar land at a “steal”, developer and bank cronies are aligned to profit, the legal

industry involved in the case make their money, and the only one who loses is the

property owner, who loses everything especially their right to due process in the United

States of America? Broward County voters don’t think this should stand. “Now that the

case is officially over, let the investigation officially begin,” says one resident, “they

made their bed, and it’s time to lie in it.”

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