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hawk	Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:01 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	Maria Augimeri, our city councillor, in her latest newsletter speaks on neighbourhood improvements at Keele Street and Wilson Avenue. She states: "...and the Max Condo was constructed and has served as an example of good quality redevelopment." Well what about the Westmount Condos? Our building was built at approximately the same time as the Max. You can compare the two at: http://www.westmountcondoslife.com/us-max.html http://www.westmountcondoslife.com/maintenance2.html http://www.westmountcondoslife.com/landscaping.html Well, I guess the neigbourhood batted .500 which would be great in baseball. In baseball half of the players on the field win and half lose. But this is not a baseball game so there should not have been any losers.
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hawk	Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:54 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	edit Last edited by hawk on Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:48 pm; edited 1 time in total
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wm pasz	Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:29 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	It's really disturbing to read on the www.westmountcondoslife.com site that a member of a well-known local crime family is a regular fixture in the building and that sizable payments from the condo's treasury have been made to his sister-in-law, the wife of another known organized crook. Equally alarming is the rapidly deteriorating condition of the building. It's unbelievable - but the photos don't lie - that you now have dogs shitting and pissing in the hallways and the condo board is doing nothing about this. It seems to me that they are deliberately running the place into the ground in much the same way as the previous hotel was allowed to run into the ground. This really begs the question, why? What are these guys up to? Another intriguing aspect of what's going on in Mondo Condo land is that the UFCW still has its fingers in the pie. According to the CCWIPP pension plan's annual report for 2009, the CCWIPP still has a mortgage, in an undisclosed amount, with Joe Ieradi's company, [url=http://ccwipp.org/PDF/Annual%20Report%202009%20(English).pdf] Westmount Keele[/url]. As far as we know, that mortgage was originally for $4.3 million (this was made to Joe in 2005 as part of a generous financing arrangement that facilitated his purchase of the hotel). Is it possible that the full amount is still outstanding? You bet. Joe got quite a sweet deal from the ccwipp boys. (You can check it out about half way through this article.And look at what sections of standard charge (mortgage) are non-applicable (Sections 3, 14, 17, 18 and 24). Something really reeks here and it's not just the dog shit. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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hawk	Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:55 am
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	Think of the property as a three-legged stool. The Phase I residential part worked like a dream. They sold off all but one of the residental units (even though relatives, associates and friends had to help buy one) so the condo fees pour in regularly every month. The Commercial part must be a disappointment as it is almost half empty. There is too much retail space, no street visibility and not enough customer parking. Much of the customer parking may end up in the parking garage which will be on the other side of a busy street. With the exception of Wynn Fitness, who own ten units, it will be interesting to see how many commercial tenants will extend their leases. Then there is Phase II. Will we ever know the truth about Phase II? The city wanted the parking garage demolished and underground parking provided. Westmount-Keele Terraces wanted nothing to do with that as providing underground parking is expensive—$30,000 per parking spot. So after a long fight, they got the OK to keep the garage and build Phase II. But nothing happened. Why? I suspect two things. First the concrete parking garage is not sound and it would be extremely expensive to get it into shape. Second, they may have not sold enough units to get the construction funds released. So back to the stool. One leg is solid, one leg is wobbly and one leg doesn't exist. How long before the stool falls? Let's wait and see. Last edited by hawk on Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:35 am; edited 1 time in total
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hawk	Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:06 am
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	edit Last edited by hawk on Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:49 pm; edited 2 times in total
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Elvis	Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:27 am
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 661 Location: Toronto	C'mon Hawk, When you get mob front-man Joe on tape, it is MANDATORY... to post it here. http://www.westmountcondoslife.com/audio/Vinny-move-your-car.mp3 When we were in the hotel, Joe was always "upstairs". At least we can now say something about the Keele St. laundry machine has changed over the last 8-10 years... _________________ Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
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hawk	Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:21 am
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	Quote: "Let's bring 'em out." It is time for an update in the "Jerry Springer" condo on Keele Street. Our weekend security guard was found sleeping twice in one night last Saturday. This is the same woman who was caught asleep so many times before. We got a lot of renters now so the building is going downhill faster and wilder than a Jamaican bobsled team. We got smokers in the staircases, dope smokers in the staircases and people putting their garbage in the stairwells instead of taking it down to the garbage room. One of the ceiling tiles got smashed and another car in the parking garage got broke into. At six pm when City of Toronto staff showed up to conduct a voter registration in the lobby, our two Axis Security guards were in the process of stopping them when I showed up. To get them in I said they were my guests. I went upstairs and got them two chairs and a table. I gave them my phone number and told them to phone me if they were given any trouble. I felt embarrassed at the greeting they got from Axis Security. Elizabeth Teixeira—the nutty woman who had her car posted on the web site when she did not get tickets when others did, so she phoned the police on me—phoned the cops on me again tonight. This time she stated that I was stalking her and she was afraid of me. Luckily the police use good judgment to determine who was telling the truth and who is just a little too weird. Those two cops left the building. A half hour later, two other cops show up with an young female Asian resident with them. As they go up the elevator, she starts crying. Two more police show up as backup. Then between six and seven Asian women leave the building out the back door with two cops while a man comes down in handcuffs through the front door. He and the first woman moved in ten days ago. As I said, this place is sliding downhill fast.
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hawk	Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:29 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	Quote: “Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence” Napoleon As an attachment to my last post, I should add that a car had its driver-side window smashed during a robbery in the parking garage the same night that Florence, the Axis Security guard was observed and photographed sleeping on duty. The break-in was not reported until Saturday afternoon. A month ago, during a shift on which she was caught sleeping, we had three break-ins in the parking garage. You can see the photos at: http://westmountcondoslife.com/security2.html#alert http://westmountcondoslife.com/crime-garage4.html#break-ins
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wm pasz	Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:46 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	The break-ins at the garage seem to be happening a little too coincident with the security guard's naps. I'm suspicious that she regularly nods off whenever these thieves turn up to steal car stereos and whatever else. Also, the Asian women and the guy in handcuffs - sounds either like a ho house bust or human smuggling. Both are alarming. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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hawk	Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:48 am
Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 268	Quote: Also, the Asian women and the guy in handcuffs - sounds either like a ho house bust or human smuggling. It could have been a Tupperware party that went serious wrong. You know, maybe the winner didn't like his gift bowl. More than likely he is a pimp. The apartment now looks empty.
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hawk	Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:51 pm
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wm pasz	Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:32 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	Thanks for posting that link Hawk. I saw the story in yesterday's online NP and couldn't help but wonder how much more evidence our governmental and law enforcement organizations need that organized crime is out of control in this country, and particularly in Ontario and Quebec. Those who think I'm being alarmist or overstating are encouraged to pick up a copy of Adrian Humphrey's Sixth Family a remarkably detailed and painstakingly researched study of the breadth and depth of the mob and its activities in Canada. Essentially, Montreal has now eclipsed traditional mob havens like New York, Chicago, Buffalo and New Jersey as the mafia capital of North America and the Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara corridor has become a sort of 21st century plunder road where the Rizzutto clan and its affiliates operate with virtual impunity. More alarming that the shift of mafia locus from the US to Canada is the absolutely impotence of Canadian law enforcement agencies to deal with the mobsters, their rackets and the victimization of our citizens. I'm not talking here about the beat cops you see in the streets. They're not involved in monitoring, investigating, arresting and prosecuting organized criminals. I'm talking about the specialized agencies that are mandated specifically for dealing with organized crime - like the RCMP and it's much touted Special Enforcement Unit. While these guys make the occasional bust of bikers, drug lab operators and the like, they appear completely oblivous to the most lucrative, insidious and harmful mafia scams - white collar crime. In fact, you'd think it didn't exist in this country from the laissez faire attitude in among the politicians and bureaucrats who wring their hands about crime. I'm convinced hawk that the problems you and other owners and tenants in your building are part of a web or white collar crime that has been operating for many years and whose architects are laughing all the way to the bank because they know that the law has no interest in interfering with their activities - and if a few dozen, or a few hundred or a few thousand or even many thousands of average citizens get screwed, well, that's their problem. The problems in your building are an extension of 3 decades worth of shady activities that have involved this property, many of which bore all the hallmarks of pension-looting, real estate and other scams that should have been familiar to any law enforcement agency that had been watching similar developments in the US. But for some reason Canadian law enforcers have spent two decades (at least) studiously looking the other way. A couple of years ago, a colleague and I met with the RCMP to discuss our concerns about what we'd uncovered over several years of digging into the bizarre practices the CCWIPP investment committee and its web of associates. Our concerns had escalated based on the similarities between what we'd found and pension looting scams that had been shut exposed and shut down in the US. The coppers agreed that there was plenty of cause for concern and that they were investigating another "large union pension fund" where similar issues existed. Yet, they had no interest in pursing the concerns we brought to their attention. They did request that we provide them with a written account of what we'd found and our explanation of why we believed it warranted their attention. I provided them the written account - which ran to some 400 pages (neatly typed and organized I might add). They blew us off anyway. I don't think they actually even read it. So given that the mob is out of control in Canada and that pension-looting and other forms of white collar crime are favoured activities among mobsters' (read Mobsters, Unions and Feds if you need convincing, and that certain well-known mobsters are connected to this property and its developer who is connected to the bleeding pension fund, when are we going to have enough smoke and enough alarms for our enforcers and defenders to come racing over and say, "oh fuck, there's a fire here!" It seems to me that the citizens have been put in a position where they can count on no one but themselves to investigate, expose and hopefully, put the brakes on something that is ruining our lives. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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Elvis	Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:25 pm
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 661 Location: Toronto	The writer of the article posted by hawk, Adrian Humphreys, also did a podcast (it's one of the related links found on the right side of the article). His series will continue this week in the National Post newspaper. Here's the link to the podcast... Quote: "The mafia feels safe in Canada. The mobsters when they're visiting back, talking to their alleged colleagues, caught on these video tapes... them saying that once you get a Canadian passport it's almost impossible to get rid of us. They talk about how when you're wanted by the law in Italy, a good place to come is to Canada." http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/68813/1d/natpost.download.akamai.com/68963/Canwest_National_Post/0924Posted.mp3 _________________ Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
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Elvis	Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:04 am
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 661 Location: Toronto	Getting a little more fun! Here's the lastest National Post article... Quote: “It’s been years since we have done anything,” complained another visitor from Thunder Bay. “But what are we supposed to do? We do baptisms, and very few of them,” according to the report. More than 80 of the 2,656 pages in the prosecutors’ report deal with Thunder Bay, part of a lengthy chapter on alleged Canadian connections, including details on the clans in Toronto revealed in Saturday’s Post. A city of 110,000 on the north shore of Lake Superior, 1,200 kilometres northwest of Toronto, Thunder Bay is better known for its fishing and hunting than as a criminal outpost. Read more: Mafia cell uncovered in Ontario: Italian prosecutors So it turns out that the Italian prosecutors have lifted the lid on a mafia cell in Thunder Bay, Ontario that was planning a criminal "coming out" party. I'm reminiscing about an old Wanda Pasz post... Quote: Post Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:27 am Mikey Fraser? Funny you should ask. A well-connected source told me just this week that the weasel has surfaced: As a business agent for Local 175 in Thunder Bay (a small city in northern Ontario - about 16 hours drive from Toronto). Prior to his appointment to the Local 175 presidency in the mid 1990's, Mikey was stationed in Thunder Bay where he was the regional boss of 175, so it's a bit of a trip back to his roots. As a business agent in the faraway location, Mikey can keep earning a nice income, work as much or as little as he wants and keep a low profile (well, maybe not so much now that we're on to him). I believe siggy described this arrangement as the UFCW Idiot Protection Program. 80+ pages about Thunder Bay?? Wonder if anyone on the wiretaps mentions how great their UFCW bitch boys are for the pension-skimming business. _________________ Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share. Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.
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wm pasz	Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:43 am
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	Thunder Bay!? OMG. They haven't been active for about 20 years? Funny, that's when Mikey Fraser, Ralphie Ortlieb, Tommy Rees and other UFCW-connected shadies were trying to organize a casino workers union in Thunder Bay (see biz union black ops series if you want the details). Fraser was actually based up there as a UFCW regional director before he got promoted to Prez of Local 175 and its slush funds. Ya know, I think it's really fantastic that the Italian authorities are investigating this. Maybe between them, the FBI and other non-Canadian law enforcement agencies we'll finally find out what's going on in our country. Something Adrian Humphries doesn't really touch on in his interview in terms of the harm that the mob do to the public are the billions of dollars that are scammed through white collar crime - stock scams, ponzi schemes, pension looting and so forth (he talks about the drug trade - and it's true that this causes a great deal of misery but it's not the only problem). Here's a true story. About 10 years ago (holy cow - has it been that long?!) we wrote about a group of union reformers in a Teamsters local who were concerned that their union was being scammed by a shady dude name Ray Bartolotti. What they described followed a time-tested recipe for mob infiltration of Teamsters locals. Among the shady things that Ray did upon taking office as local president was give his executive big pay hikes and then insist that they kick back a portion of their pay to him - first to help him pay off a big campaign loan and then (when it came out that his debt had been repaid by a certain union leader), to line his own pockets. A couple of the executives got nervous and went to the Peel Police (the local is based in Mississauga). Although the kickback scheme should have sounded alarm bells (fraud, racketeering), the Peel coppers told them to go away, they were too busy to look into the problem (I believe their words were that they were very busy and this kind of thing would take a long time to investigate). Instead, the coppers referred the execs to a private investigator - who happened to be a retired Peel police officer. The PI spent some time trying to get hold of a video that one of the reform-oriented members of the local had secretly made of Bartolotti shooting off his mouth at a stewards' meeting (where he was alleged to have said that his election loan - some $70,000 - had been repaid by Cliff Evans of the UFCW). The PI's efforts had the effect of frightening away the members who might, if the investigation had been handled by experts in white collar crime, have come forward with valuable information. Had that happened, it might have prevented Ray and his pals from looting the local's treasury and pension fund and money that belonged to the members would have stayed with the members. (Ray was eventually outed on the internet and slithered off into retirement - packing a much enhanced pension thanks to his pension looting escapade - but the damage was done). What should have happened in this case? The Peel cops should have referred this matter immediately to the Special Enforcement Unit. Why didn't they? The most charitable theory that I can come up with is that we are in such bad shape when it comes to dealing with white collar crime that our police forces don't even recognize the most obvious telltale signs of it. A somewhat less charitable take is that they don't care. Still less charitable is the view (to which I subscribe btw) is that the bureaucrats in charge of our public institutions - like police, securities regulators, pension regulators, etc. - have evolved such a corrupt and dysfunctional culture that they see white collar crooks in much the same light as they see other business people with power and influence. They romanticize these criminals in the same way that Humphries says that (some) of the public romanticizes the mob. They're powerful guys and if you're into power, status and money, it's sexy to get to know them. Think I've lost it? Look at Rocco Rossi's bizarre campaign posters. Now this guy isn't some fringe candidate, he's the former National Director of the federal Liberal Party. When a guy like this thinks the citizens will be turned on at the thought of the mob running city hall, you know there's a problem. I'm really looking forward to hearing more about what the Italian authorities can tell us about the mob in Canada. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X Last edited by wm pasz on Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:52 am; edited 2 times in total
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