Developers are Crabgrass : A public participation email I sent asking obvious questions where jurisdiction to compel answers is obvious.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

A public participation email I sent asking obvious questions where jurisdiction to compel answers is obvious.

As always, click to enlarge. Public participation is a good thing, many more people should use their powers and rights, that way.

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eric zaetsch Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM
To: market.assurance@state.mn.us
Cc: info@colemanforsenate.com, info@alfranken.com, Lora Pabst , "Orrick, Dave"
To: Market Assurance Division
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce
market.assurance@state.mn.us

From: Eric Zaetsch

Consumer Inquiry – About a pending Enforcement Action, if any, or how one might be instigated

Dear Sir or Madam:

This is a public participation inquiry (per definition, Minn. Stat. Sect. 554.01, subd. 6) about whether any investigation or inquiry is pending about a particular matter, facts being in attached items and as set out below, and if no pending inquiry exists this is a request for the Department to initiate one.

First, I call your attention to a pdf attachment, downloaded from Dept. pages, re an enforcement action against a "HOMFI MORTGAGE SERVICES INC." characterized in Dept. wording as, "Respondent accepted kickbacks from a sham affiliated business arrangement." I believe the situation I describe below may well be something akin to that.

Briefly, a complaint has been filed in a Texas court suggesting a Minnesota firm and an individual engaged in a kind of "sham affiliated business arrangement," the firm being a "Hays Companies" and the individual being a Ms. Laurie Coleman. See, attached license data re Ms. Coleman downloaded from the Dept. web search function, and the page re your search function failing to return license information on any "Hays Companies" in Minneapolis, however, see their webpage holding themselves out as doing insurance business in Minnesota. A copy of the complaint, with its attached evidentiary items, is attached to this email. It is a verified complaint filed under penalty of perjury, and is independently available online in its entirety, here:

http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/Mckim+v+Nasser+-+Petition++2008-64385+(2).pdf?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUoaEaD_ec7PaP3iUiacyKUU

Pages 8, and 10-13 are the relevant pages of the court filing. They allege an insurance sham transaction between a Houston deepwater oil and gas services company allegedly controlled by a Nasser Kazeminy, in which three $25,000 separate payments of money were allegedly funneled to the Coleman individual, via the Hays firm (i.e., NOT suggesting there was any normal fee-splitting arrangement between master-servant or independent contractor and principal, but a total flow-through, for ostensibly questionable purposes).

Is this matter currently being investigated by the Department, and if not, why not? Also, how might I, a citizen acting as an act of public participation, instigate an investigation if there currently is none? Might this email, in its limited scope, serve to initiate inquiry?

My particular concern is whether there was a legitimate and non-sham insurance and/or insurance-related relationship between the Kazeminy firm in Texas and the Coleman-Hays parties; and most particularly, whether sham dimensions might be suggested by handling between the Coleman-Hays parties of the three $25,000 alleged payments other than in the normal course of business; i.e., other than under some contractual binding fee-splitting manner of doing business between the Hays-Coleman parties, as is common practice within the trade. The court filing's Exhibit A purports a contract existence between Hays and the Kazeminy firm.

Such questions ought to easily be discoverable by a Dept. investigator in less than half a day's looking at Hays and Coleman business records showing the Hays intake of the money the litigation paper alleges, if that happened, and its related disbursement(s) if any, to Coleman.

Invoices for services from Coleman to Hays ought, in the normal course of business for a non-sham situation be clearly in evidence, as preceding any Kazeminy firm disbursements to Hays, and hence also preceding any payments over to Coleman.

If a normal fee splitting situation is discovered, ideally with a pre-existing written contract for fee arrangements, further inquiry might not be needed, and certainly I am not suggesting steps beyond that at present. Hence it is an easy and well-contained situation and set of investigative steps I am suggesting for Department consideration. And by such a narrow concern, the matter might be most expeditiously handled, time being of the essence.

I believe the matter is of interest statewide, see, e.g., the following web links:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/33643124.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/02/senate_candidates_meet_for_last_debate/

http://www.mnblue.com/norms+new+ad+lies+to+distract

I use those links to disclose to the Department that public political dimensions unavoidably attach to my quite narrowed inquiry. I do that to assure the Department is aware that its response, which I hope is prompt, might itself attain public attention and scrutiny. Please acknowledge receiving my email ASAP, even if action and evaluation might take a day or two before responding.

Also, please note this email is cc'd to two individuals, Ms. Pabst being a Star Tribune reporter, and Mr. Orrick being a Pioneer Press reporter. Were you to do a "reply all" in responding to this inquiry, it would save me significant effort in forwarding things, and would hence be appreciated.

Thank you.

Eric Zaetsch

Cc:
info@colemanforsenate.com
info@alfranken.com
"Lora Pabst" LPabst@startribune.com
"Orrick, Dave" dorrick@pioneerpress.com

Attachments

Note: Inquiry email – omitted attachments

The attachments were omitted in the original email transmission. They
are attached to this email retransmission.

5 attachments

McKim+v+Nasser+-+Petition++2008-64385+(2).pdf
1564K

DeptCommerceRecentInsEnforcementActions.pdf
56K

LaurieColeman.pdf
69K

HaysCompaniesCommerceDeptSearch.pdf
88K

HaysCompaniesWebHomepage.pdf
101K

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.