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Zimmerman Must Surrender, Bond Revoked

SANFORD, Fla. — A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours, saying George Zimmerman and his wife misled the court about how much money they had available when his bond was set at $150,000.

Prosecutors claim Zimmerman had $135,000 available that had been raised by a website he set up. Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, testified at the bond hearing in April that they had limited funds available since she was a nursing student and Zimmerman wasn't working.

1. Dade County breaks the record for the most expensive condominium ever

    sold in Florida.
2. Short sales - What are they and what your association needs to know.
3. Banks are failing to upkeep properties they now own and are destroying the

    appearance of some communities.
4. What snowbirds need to know about maintaining their unit while they're up

    north for the summer.

Dear Florida Homeowner and Condo Owner: 

Another 14 participants in the Nevada construction defect lawsuit scam have pleaded guilty, among them former police officers and a CAM that was doing business as well in Florida. Prosecutors are closing in on the main players. Listen to "On The Commons" today. Senator Mike Schneider is the guest. Schneider and host Shu Bartholomew will be discussing this hot topic.

HOAs in Nevada won a big lawsuit about collection costs. These HOAs were accused of charging more than the law allowed. The court disagreed! Big win for associations. Lawsuits like this were used to scare owners here in Florida trying to make the Safe Harbor provisions in H319 palatable.

Election campaigns here in Florida are heating up. New districts are causing incumbents to fight each other. We need to see that we make sure that our archenemies in the Florida legislature are not getting reelected. See some articles below.

Do you think that banks and/or developers have learned from the real estate crash? I don't think so! More condos are being built -- despite many newly built condos are still being empty -- and we see again the ads screaming: "Buy your own home -- no money down!"

 

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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THIS IS A MUST SEE FOR ANY VET, AND ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!!  There is really something wrong with our country, when people laugh at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Click on the link below.   No Laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier   The guard sternly, "shut up" a group of people laughing at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. Not a peep was heard afterwards. Notice how he went about it....stepped off the black mat, made his comments, proceeded to the end of the mat without getting back on until he reached the end....then stepped onto the blackmat again, began his 21 steps again.   GOOD FOR HIM -- PRICELESS!!!!  GOD BLESS HIM RICHLY!!!!!

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IMAX fly over of Jerusalem.  After a year of research and preparation,

this giant Imax 3D screen  film, JERUSALEM , is scheduled for worldwide

release in 2013.  The film takes you on a spectacular and unprecedented

aerial tour throughout Israel/Palestine , the Holy Land and the city once

believed to lie at the center of the world.



To see it in full screen - click on the 4 small arrows at the bottom right
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iPQI6Yupt48

L A Times was our News with out any ADS 6 years ago.   Now its packed with ADS.  You would think with all these ads they would give out FREE coffee on Monday morning.  Trish Adams now controls this community and if you a a good friend you can write a full page about yourself, not 150 words or less.   All she does is write stories about her wonderful staff and what she is doing.  She is doing crap and taking this community down the tubes.  What a hell of a rotten place to live, having me ban for 4 months trying to make this a better community.  This is how she treats the residents of Lake Ashton.  The Witch of Lake Ashton must go!

Ex-police captain to plead guilty in HOA probe

Article Courtesy of The Las Vegas Review-Journal

By Jeff German

Published May 25, 2012

Retired Las Vegas police Capt. Frank Sutton has struck a deal to plead guilty in the high-profile federal investigation of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
The investigation has focused on a massive fraud scheme to stack associations with board members who would steer legal, community management and construction defect contracts to favored firms.
Sutton is the last of three retired Las Vegas police officers linked to the investigation to face charges. A fourth former officer killed himself early in the four-year investigation.
Sutton was a board member at three of the dozen condominium associations involved in the investigation - Park Avenue, High Noon and Mission Ridge - and tried to get on the board of a fourth association, Pebble Creek.
While on the boards, Sutton also is alleged to have worked for former construction company boss Leon Benzer, a key target of the investigation. Federal authorities have alleged that Benzer and the late construction defects lawyer, Nancy Quon, were behind the lucrative scheme. Quon's body was found in the bathtub of her Henderson condominium on March 20.
Justice Department lawyers disclosed the Sutton deal in a just-unsealed and unopposed motion to consolidate his case with the case of 14 other defendants set to plead guilty before U.S. District Judge James Mahan on May 31. Mahan signed an order Wednesday adding Sutton to the group plea deal, one of the largest ever in Nevada.
All of the defendants, including Sutton, are cooperating with the Justice Department lawyers, as the investigation moves forward with possible indictments of still-more targets. Eleven other defendants pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate last year.
Details of Sutton's agreement with prosecutors will be made public after he enters his plea to a single count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, the same charge facing the other 14 defendants.
The deal comes after months of negotiations between prosecutors and Sutton's lawyer, Richard Wright, who declined comment on Wednesday.
Another retired Las Vegas police officer, Morris Mattingly, is among the defendants who will enter guilty pleas on May 31. Mattingly served on the Vistana association's board while he worked for Benzer.
Former police Lt. Benjamin Kim is also set to plead guilty next week in a scheme to fraudulently obtain a bank loan for the Courthouse Cafe, which did business at the Regional Justice Center. Benzer, Kim and the late attorney, David Amesbury, were partners in the restaurant, now a Capriotti's sandwich shop.
Amesbury, who was found dead March 25 of an apparent hanging at his brother's property in Northern California, pleaded guilty in both the bank fraud and homeowners association schemes in October.
Kim's estranged wife, Lisa Kim, is pleading guilty on May 31 in both schemes. She ran Platinum Community Services, which managed several of the victim homeowners associations.
Her husband's plea is to take place separately before Mahan on Tuesday.
A fourth former Las Vegas police officer tied to the investigation, retired Lt. Christopher Van Cleef, shot himself to death several days after FBI agents and Las Vegas police conducted a valleywide raid in September 2008. Van Cleef was on the board of Pebble Creek and had purchased condominiums at other developments in the scheme.
Federal authorities have alleged that board members friendly to Benzer worked against the interests of the associations and homeowners to hire Benzer to do construction work and Quon and other lawyers to sue for construction defects. Community management companies also were retained to maintain control over the homeowners associations.
"These HOA contracts can be very lucrative and therefore certain conspirators stood to gain considerable profits by being awarded the contracts or litigation," Justice Department lawyers Charles La Bella and Mary Ann McCarthy wrote in court papers.

The board members were elected through dirty campaign tactics, including rigged elections, the prosecutors previously alleged.