Passersby
July 7, 2017
Attorney Richard Robbins Quits Manny Fialkow
October 8, 2014
Richard Robbins, Manny Fialkow’s Lawyer, Quits
How are things in the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy? What’s cooking at the City of Atlanta’a Department of Watershed Management? How’s TEAM GOLIATH’s New Orleans extension operating? I stated a few essays ago that City Hall and United Way of Atlanta had paid a crack team of social workers from the French Quarter or somewhere to come to Atlanta to be here for the turning off of the water at the Peachtree Pine facility. They were in Atlanta to “transition” the residents at the Pine to United Way’s safe havens that do not exist. TEAM GOLIATH’s ploy to shut off the water in order to close the shelter was foiled once again for the three hundreth time. The crack team from New Orleans, an extension of TEAM GOLIATH, went back to the Big Easy the day after Team David’s Task Force paid the $581,000 plus water bill. But at least one member of the team resurfaced at Peachtree-Pine several days ago, positioning for another tactic.
What does TEAM GOLIATH do next? Will Czar Debi Starnes rise to the surface of the cesspool with another lice infestation? Will Horace Sibley find his computer somewhere over at Georgia Tech? Will crack CDC detect rats over on Ponce de Leon that came from Peachtree Pine? Will Central Atlanta Progress find an EBOLA outbreak in Miami that started with a homeless someone? I doubt it. Starns and CDC and CAP have a few more things to think about these days. The fabricated existence of lice and flea infestations and locust attacks at the Pine have turned into lawsuits and court cases and losing appeals. Remember Joe Beaslesy’s, “It’s time somebody went to jail!”
The latest blip on TEAM GOLIATH’s screen occurred today when Manny Fialkow’s lawyer moved to withdraw from representing Premium Funding Solutions, Inc. Of course, Exhibit 20 that I posted recently has Manny Fialkow stating under oath that he is in no way shape or form connected to Premium Funding Solutions, Inc. Manny Fialkow is the conspirator in TEAM GOLIATH who paid the Mercy Housing nuns $780,000 for the mortgage notes on the Peachtree-Pine building on Peachree Street in Atlanta. AJ Robinson wrote that Manny deserved a discount on what he was paying the nuns since Manny was the chosen one to put them into default and then “kick them out.” Evidence has Emory Health Care, Inc. in the background in case it needed to pick up any shortage in dollars for Fialkow.
It is interesting that legal representation for Fialkow, Attorney Richard Robbins, attempted today to withdraw from the case. This should be no problem for Manny Fialkow as he has had a number of lawyers to withdraw from this case. And only God knows how many other lawyers may be defending him in other lawsuits. He’ll find another lawyer; he better. Stay tuned.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
October 7, 2014
TEAM GOLIATH STUMBLES AGAIN!
October 1, 2014
Millions of people throughout the social and local media have learned that the City of Atlanta refused to accept a $100,000.00 check in partial payment of an outstanding water bill at a facility for homeless people. A few days later the $582,383.53 bill was paid in full by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. averting the water being shut off. The City’s devious plan was apparently foolproof and certainly extensive. Refusing the $100,000.00 proved TEAM GOLIATH did not want the money. They wanted those redundant people out of that building and away from downtown Atlanta. By law a water bill paid in full must be received. TEAM GOLIATH had no choice but to take the money. One of the City’s more disgruntled attorneys muttered something like they were so glad the Task Force was able to pay the bill. In truth, paying the bill is the last thing that person wanted. She and her coterie wanted the water turned off.
Had the City shut off the water at the Peachtree-Pine facility, her officials would have called Fulton County officials. And of course, for health reasons the County health folks for the good health of the people would remove them from UNHEALTHY Peachtree Pine. Those Atlanta citizens numbering children, their mothers and 400 men have nowhere to go; nevertheless, go they will if TEAM GOLIATH has a say.
The City of Atlanta through the auspices of United Way of Atlanta employed a fortnight or so ago a Crisis Team to come from New Orleans to Atlanta for the purpose of “TRANSITIONING” ALL the people out of and away from the Peachtree Pine Community. People were actually paid by United Way dollars and/or Atlanta tax payer dollars to come to Atlanta to be ready for the shutting off of the water. The Crisis Team was in the City for an undesignated period of time. They returned home the day after the half-million-dollar payment was made. City “officials” scheduled a meeting for Monday, September 29, 2014, away from City Hall, set for 1 pm with Task Force staff. The purpose of that meeting was to plan the placing of the 100 women with their children. That 1 pm meeting was cancelled by City Hall.
The need to “transition” women and children suddenly disappears as far as the United Way TEAM GOLIATH movers and shakers are concerned. TEAM GOLIATH stumbles regularly. More often than not, however, the monster, like all evil, rises soon to create more angst. Atlanta has a marvelous opportunity to be a City, a Jeremiah’s City, an Isaiah’s city, that City on a hill that spreads light, joy and hope.
Please pray that LEADERSHIP, real leadership that focuses on suffering men, women and children will come miraculously our way. And on the way to that utopia could we have some potholes filled and person-hole covers leveled. Where is the Great Shirley Franklin’s Pothole Posse when we need it. We have a $100,000,000.00 Streetcar Named Disaster and a thousand streets whose surfaces are an embarrassment. Isaiah 60:17b speaks of a rotten Jerusalem whose governors would be righteousness and whose rulers would be justice. Atlanta, no less guilty than a fallen Jerusalem, can change direction. Mark it well that it does not have to be this way. There exist two possibilities for relief for Atlanta: one, that the present regime do a moral about-face: or, two, that the present regime be extracted from below and beyond its deepest abscess. I fear that the latter has a greater chance of coming to pass than the former.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
October 1, 2014
WATER SHUT-OFF SCHEDULE ALERT!!!
September 18, 2014
A City of Atlanta attorney and the City’s Commissioner of Watershed Management met this morning, September 18, 2014, with the Task Force’s attorney S. Hall, Task Force Board Member Carl Hartrampf and Task Force Director Anita Beaty. The Commissioner informed the Task Force that the water at the Peachtree-Pine Facility is scheduled to be shut off on Monday, September 22. Only a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the City’s water department by Friday afternoon can avert the shut-off of water at the emergency facility where last night 432 people resided. Of this total 432 people, 42 are women and 28 are children. Let me ask you to do one thing or three of three things that will help you. One, go to the Task Force website, http://www.atlantataskforceforthehomeless.org and send a donation of money. If you earmark your donation for “water” we will get it to the City of Atlanta Water Department. Two, bring all the bottled water you can gather to 477 Peachtree Street (Pine Street door). Three, pray for the soul of a City of Atlanta that can wrongfully cut funds and then turn around and shut-off water keeping homeless women and their children from water, a basic necessity of life.
Whatever your political persuasion, TEAM GOLIATH conspirator or a sensitive human being, surely you see the cruelty of a shut-off of water to people who have no place to go. The Task Force Attorney Steve Hall inquired about the hundreds of huge debtors to the City for back water bills. Mr. Hall didn’t mention any businesses but he could have. An AJC reporter said recently that the Water Department has “forgiven” many water bills far in excess of what the City claims is owed by Peachtree Pine. The city attorney told Mr. Hall that ONLY the Task Force’s bill would be discussed. Where is Mayor Reed in all this? Could the Superior Court of Fulton County be in all this? Is United Way offering dollars per head to struggling churches for the people they will take in when the county or the court or gog or magog close Peachtree Pine?
Micah 2:1-2, if I may quote Emanuel “God with us” Fialkow’s middle name: “Woe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. They covet fields and then seize them, and houses and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.” I beg you for water.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
September 18, 2014
Tom Bell Suggests Purchasing The Loans From Mercy Housing
August 26, 2014
Exhibit 10, along with 27 other exhibits, was filed by Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall with Judge Craig Schwall in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, at a hearing on July 11, 2014. Premium Funding Solutions (Manny Fialko) versus the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc.) requested the hearing to make the way clear to dispossess the Task Force for the Homeless from the disputed property known as the Center at Peachtree-Pine in midtown Atlanta. TEAM GOLIATH is the name I gave years ago to the conspiracy that has worked feverishly for a decade to get rid of Anita Beaty and the 600 homeless people from the 96,000 square foot building at the corner of Peachtree and Pine Streets. This very place, Peachtree-Pine, last night “housed” 100 homeless women and their children. The oldest child, in school, is 17 years old, and the youngest, in his mother’s arms, is three weeks old. These homeless people are in this facility because they have no other place to go. All other shelters that take women and children are full and overflowing as is Peachtree Pine.
For clearly political reasons in the midst of hearings and lawsuits, TEAM GOLIATH has closed its doors to women and children. The City’s “model shelter” called The Gateway sheltered 200 woman and children, and Fulton County’s Springdale Shelter with a capacity of 150 women and children closed their doors to women with children and single women within the past year. These three-hundred-fifty spaces have been closed to women and children for purely political reasons. Where is the Mayor? Where is Atlanta City Council? Where is the Fulton County Board of Commissioners? What kind of leadership could let this happen? Closing their doors and their hearts to women and little children is unconscionable.
As I walk through our “lobby” almost every day and witness these people, human beings, I think of Jeremiah’s high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom (Jeremiah 7) where children were sacrificed to false gods. Jeremiah 7:32 promises that there’ll be a day when the Valley of Ben Hinnom will be called the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. And the dead were those who committed the atrocities.
Atlanta’s public, commercial and spiritual leadership is close to slaughtering poor women and children. We are slaughtering children physically, emotionally, psychologically. Go ahead, steal the Peachtree Pine building and give it to Emory Health Care, Inc. or some other shady dealer. Run Anita Beaty out of town on a rail. Torture a staff who labors alongside these women and their children 24/7. Castrate African-American males who threaten your ego, but for God’s sake and the sake of your souls where the fire is not quenched, do something about the 17 year old in school and the three-week old infant in her mother’s arms.
Exhibit 10 Tab 10, is a copy of the November 12, 2008 minutes of the executive committee of Central Atlanta Progress. The paragraphs entitled, “Panhandling update” and “Peachtree-Pine Shelter update” are the two pieces of evidence troubling to TEAM GOLIATH. For you the reader and soon to be jury members of the TEAM’s peers, I quote verbatim ONLY these two paragraphs:
Panhandling update – Robinson reviewed current progress on the recently launched anti-panhandling campaign. It was suggested that scrutiny of the courts in some form be necessary to insure their actions are supportive of panhandling arrests.
Peachtree-Pine Shelter Update – Robinson reported on several issues related to the financial viability of the Task Force for the homeless and their possible default on more than $800,000 in loans from Mercy Housing. Tom Bell suggested that it might be possible for the loans to be purchased from Mercy Housing. More information will be available in the future, as there are plans for internal staff movements at Mercy Housing that could be more favorable to the community’s efforts.
Paul Kelman
Secretary”
Note:
(1) Who is Tom Bell? This Exhibit 10 dates 2008. How wide is this conspiracy? Does Cousins Properties, Inc. ring a bell? The ringing of some bells cannot be UNRUNG, Your Honor!
(2) How would A. J. Robinson know that there were to be “internal staff movements at Mercy Housing that could be more favorable to the community’s efforts?
(3) Might the “community’s efforts” be the bringing down of the TASK FORCE and the Center at Peachtree Pine?
(4) Does A. J. Robinson’s teetering empire represent the “community’s efforts”?
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 26, 2014
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Exhibit 8 Tab 8 “All…under the cloak of darkness”
August 25, 2014
Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall presented Exhibit 8 along with 27 other exhibits on July 11, 2014, to Judge Craig Schwall, Superior Court of Fulton County. Hall entitled his Tab 8, “Orr email to Wardell.” In this particular hearing the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. is the defendant as Manny Fialkow’s attorneys moved for permission to proceed for dispossessory. The following February 2008 email from Central Atlanta Progress’s Richard Orr to Dave Wardell is quoted verbatim.
“From: Richard Orr
To: Dave Wardell
Sent: 2/11/2008 4:40:21 PM
Subject: Up to speed before the Friday Meeting – homeless
About 4 months ago, AJ called together a meeting with Debi, Horace and Barry Berlin (major foundation funder – Kendeda) of homeless related project , (sic) including the Task Force. He’s not a happy camper.
AJ asked me to attend the initial meeting and run herd on what needed to get done. We met and focused in on a couple of things that needed to be done (1) secure financial details of Task Force (2) seek to get PR help for Gateway/United Way and City driven homeless efforts, all in an attempt to start whittling away and (sic) backing and support of Task Force.
We got Edelman to sign on for pro bono. Barry got financial data (990s for Task Force and Wardlaw Foundation, along with Task Force 2007 budget.) I reviewed financial data and flagged odd looking things on the IRS forms. We called in a new accounting member to review the information and render some expert opinions. They (sic) perspective raised some possibilities for attacking the credibility of TF with private and public funders. AJ has met with a number of private parties to relay that information (Brad Curry, Woodruff Foundation and SunTrust is pending (sic) since they administer the Wardlaw Foundations).
I also found another 501 c3 “Our Fine Arts These” that was used to shelter Jim and Anita’s salary to keep it out of the Task Force 990 report. It has been suggested to AJ that we seek to get a state or federal agency to raise some hell over the monkey business with the IRS forms. Accounting folks say there’s a possibility it could put funding foundations at risk.
Of course all this has been done under the cloak of darkness and virtually no e-mails back and forth to the City. Just in case of FOI (sic) issues.
The meeting with Edelman is an outshoot of previous discussions.
Richard Orr
Senior Manager
Communications and Membership
Central Atlanta Project Inc.
Note:
(1) “Debi” in paragraph 0ne is Debi Starnes Mayor Shirley Franklin’ minion appointed to end homelessness in downtown Atlanta. Starnes called herself the Czar of Homelessness.
(2) “Horace” is Horace Sibley and the Chair of Mayor Franklin’s Commission On Homelessness. Sibley served the homeless of Atlanta after he had retired from the prestigious King and Spaulding Law Firm. Sibley’s accomplishments as a lawyer who served the suffering homeless people of Atlanta were acknowledged by Georgia State School of Law.
(3) “AJ” in paragraph one is A. J. Robinson, President of Central Atlanta Progress. As early as 2007 Robinson had been scheming to disappear homeless people from downtown and also, surely, to rid the City of the disobedient Task Force.. Among the thousands of e-mails confiscated by Task Force attorneys, Richard Orr often refers adoringly to A. J. Robinson as, “Boss.” And the Boss is tied closely to the City of Atlanta, Manny Fialkow, Emory Health Care, Inc. and the Nun-run Mercy Housing, Inc. who sold the Peachtree Pine mortgage to Manny Fialkow. Worthy of note is the fact that while Emory and CAP and the City were slipping into bed with the nuns to gain the title to Peachtree Pine, Emory purchased the nun-owned St. Joseph’s Hospital. Remember the nuns not wanting to foul their small clothes preferred to sell the “notes” to Manny Fialkow than to CAP. Imagine anything in the heights or the depths more questionable than Emanuel “Micah 5:2” Fialkow
(4) Unabashedly Richard Orr states the plan to whittle away at any backing and support to the Task Force.
(5) A new accounting member held some possibilities for attacking the credibility of the Task Force with private and public funders.
(6) Orr’s classic close: “Of course all this has been under the cloak of darkness and virtually no e-mails back and forth to the City, just in case of FOI issues.”
(7) For a moment, join me in being one of the 4000 members of Sam Williams’ CHAMBER or one of the thousands of tax paying members of Central Atlanta Progress that Orr represents. The danger to CAP’s very existence in this one email causes the earth to tremble beneath our feet. Imagine the financial damages CAP faces. Never been depose before. Never been questioned before. Unfortunately, for the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy, hundreds of emails equally as damaging as this one await the eyes and ears a jury of their peers.
(8) Brad Curry’s name surfaces. Robinson has met with so many people in the good work of TEAM GOLIATH. Is Brad Curry in any way affiliated with Emory?
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 25, 2014
Emory University, Emory Healthcare: Guilty as Charged
August 6, 2014
The name Emory University brings to mind quality education, one of the finest universities in the country. Emory Health Care also means the finest in medical and health care for the sick and dying. Bringing quality education and compassionate care for sick people are two of the most commendable acts on the planet. We all know brilliant and dedicated people affiliated with Emory. I believe Rabbi Jesus taught truth and healed the sick.
Down the years the staff and Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless have known readily their detractors, their enemies. Somehow you know the wearer of the boot on your throat. The City of Atlanta, for instance, after Maynard Jackson, has not had a mayor or City Council that even pretended to address the needs of poor people. In fact, City Council’s contempt for homeless people is remarkable. Certainly, there have been members of council who have given lip service but not one positive piece of legislation has ever been passed by that body. They put a toilet here and talk of a “Giving Meter” there, but that’s the size of it.
I’ll take to my grave Mayor Bill Campbell’s response to Bob Cramer, Chairman of the Board of the Task Force. Cramer said, “Mr. Mayor, as property owners on Peachtree Street, we believe that we have rights.” Campbell with his usual smirk said, “Bob, you have rights; we have enforcement.” This comment captures the City’s attitude toward the poor on its streets from Campbell’s day to the present. We have learned to expect no better from City Hall. It’s city hall being city hall. Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), the real City Hall in Atlanta has a fifty year history as an elitist organization desperately fearful of the little man. Always applying pressure, always pulling strings, always forcing its agenda; CAP rules downtown Atlanta. How could it be anything other than what it is? It’s the real city hall being city hall. The rights of poor people could never reach this body’s agenda. In fact, the very presence of poor people downtown causes Paul Kelman and his ilk to break out with a serious irritation. The Task Force after years of experience has learned to expect nothing positive from CAP. It is Central Atlanta Progress.
United Way of Atlanta is a microcosm of its counterparts across America—questionable. Good, hard-working Americans have hard-earned dollars wrenched from their hands and placed into the coffers of these expert scavengers. Their expertise at taking surpasses any of Charles Dickens’ pickpockets. And never a dime donated in Atlanta touches directly the life of a homeless person. Mothers and babies languish in the dark shadows of Atlanta United Way. Over a million dollars, however, reached the morning coat of retiring United Way Chief Mark O’Connell some years ago.
The Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta as well as across our land enjoys a reputation certainly as tainted as United Way. Sam “Get those test scores up.” Williams resigned recently in Atlanta finding himself in the middle of the cheating scandal involving Atlanta Public Schools. Good public schools draw businesses and the Chamber wants to draw businesses. Test scores need to be high The Southern Association for Colleges and Schools guards against cheaters and caught the Atlanta Public Schools. This wrong doing very well may go away without anyone being punished. That’s the chamber way.
The City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and United Way unabashedly demand that their territory be rid of homeless people and the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. And they have worked for years as the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy to make it happen.
But could Emory, the doers of all good, the clean, the untainted, the pure, be in league with those accused of stealing from the poor? Could healthy Emory be joined at the hip with the tainted Manny Fialkow, the sordid CAP, the suspect United Way? Say it isn’t so. Not Emory.
Why would Debra S. Bloom, APR, Associate Administrator, Emory Healthcare be interested, yea concerned, about David Pendered’s 8/1,/2007 article in the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION? Bloom 8/1/07 at 8:52 am e-mailed the following to the head man of Emory Healthcare, John T. Fox. The following is quoted verbatim from Exhibit 6 Tab 6”
“Homeless backers protest fund loss. Emotional rhetoric fills debate over Shirley Franklin’s successful move to strip the shelter of public funding
By David Pendered
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Published on: 08/01/07
Raucous advocates of Atlanta’s major nonprofit homeless shelter tried to convince City Council members Tuesday to attempt to overturn Mayor Shirley Franklin’s successful move to strip the shelter of public funding. Some in the audience of more than 100 peppered the meeting with boos for their critics and chants for their supporters. One man waved his wooden cane overhead when he agreed with comments. Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, a former councilwoman, won repeated cheers that started with her opening remarks. “Slavery is the worst thing and homelessness is the second-worst thing that can be witnessed upon anyone,” Bromell-Tinubu said. “To be homeless, to be victimized again and criminalized again, is unconscionable.”
The advocates for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless suggested they may take legal action if the state Department of Community Affairs does not provide a grant that could represent 10 percent of the Task Force’s budget. The budget for the shelter, which serves about 500 people a day near the Fox Theatre, was $1.3 million in 2004, according to its latest tax filing. The state agency did not fund a $112,000 grant request after receiving a letter from the mayor’s office that contended the shelter does not meet four of five criteria for homeless programs. The mayor’s chief of staff, Greg Pridgeon, signed the letter and said at the meeting the state could get more for its money if it went somewhere other than the task force. He did not specify which service providers would do a better job.
Bob Cramer, chairman of the task force, said the shelter has been the victim of a smear campaign that included allegations it was filled with lice. He said the shelter, commonly called Peachtree and Pine, will not move or close no matter if it loses money from the state and federal governments. “Peachtree and Pine isn’t going anywhere,” he said to a standing ovation. “All you have done is hurt our ability to serve the thousands of people we serve every week.”
Debra S. Broom, APR, Associate Administrator, Emory Healthcare”
At 1:03:42 pm John T. Fox wrote, “What do you guys think will happen?”
At 8 pm 8/1/07 Albert K. Blackwelder (CEO) Emory Hospital on Peachtree Street located near Peachtree Pine wrote the following to: Betty Willis, David Pugh, John T. Fox and Debra Bloom
“Subject: Re: Today’s AJC: (Peachtree and Pine Shelter) Homeless backers protest fund loss. I was there for a while but left with AJ Robinson before the fireworks and grand finale. Tim Williams stayed for the count and said, “It was a circus.” But nothing substantive occurred. The mayor’s office is taking a hard line with the Pine Street shelter by asking the state to cut off funding. The Tri-Jurisdictional Committee on Housing also cut off federal funding to the shelter just recently. AJ, Brad Curry and I went to talk with Dan Cathy yesterday about our concerns with the operation of this shelter and the disservice they provide both neighbors and the homless (sic) themselves. Dan Cathy has given money to the shelter and even volunteers there including staying overnight there. We hopefully made an impression that there is another side to this operation that he might not be aware of.
The effort is to both shut off public funding to the shelter and to try and impact private funding as well, hence the visit to Dan Cathy. It is too early to tell how this will affect the shelter but they have a long history of fighting, noisily, for survival. This will take more time and continued pressure. Al”
Note: Representing Emory University and Emory Healthcare, CEO Al Blackwelder actually wrote among other things, “… We hopefully made an impression that there is another side to this operation that he might not be aware of.” Then he wrote, “The effort is to both shut off public funding to the shelter and to try and impact private funding as well, hence the visit to Dan Cathy.” Just as important as what Blackwelder wrote is the persons to whom he wrote it. Why bother John T. Fox with the news of a shelter’s demise? One hundred thousand documents later in these 28 exhibits will show why. Blackwelder mentions “continued pressure” along with his cohort, A. J. Robinson who says these goings on are going on “under the cover of darkness.” As my friend Joe Beasley would say, “My, my, my, my.” And I’ve heard him add, “It’s time somebody went to jail.”
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 6, 2014
Exhibit 4 Tab 4 United Way of Atlanta and City of Atlanta CAUGHT in the Conspiracy Web
August 4, 2014
The order of arrangement of the 28 exhibits presented July 11, 2014, to Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall is nothing short of brilliant. The conspiracy snowball and RICO-making lawsuit grow with every single piece of evidence. Tab 4 presents the e-mail of a United Way staffer whose hatred of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless goes back almost two decades. I first met Ko Hassan when he “volunteered” at the Task Force when we were located on Georgia Avenue in Grant Park prior to the move to Peachtree-Pine in 1997. Ko was a student at Emory. When I met him I said to myself, “Self, watch out, stand clear; there stands a wolf in sheep’s clothing, not to be trusted. His heart is far from this work. I fear he gags at the sight of a poor person.” By 2006 this clothed one has worked his way to “Director for Health and Disabilities Strategies” at where else, United Way. You can be assured his emphasis is on STRATEGIES
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And on 10/20/2006 at 4:19:10 PM Ko Hassan sends an e-mail to Horace Sibley of City connections and Protip Biswas of United Way. The subject of the e-mail is “Meeting about Peachtree and Pine.” His four-sentence e-mail reads: “Horace and Protip, This coming Monday, Oct 23rd from 12-2pm there is a ‘brainstorming’ meeting at Central Atlanta Progress offices that the Mayor’s office is hosting to discuss Peachtree and Pine. Horace was copied on that email but Protip was not. I wanted to let you all know that I will be going. Let me know if you plan to go as well. Thanks Khurram “Ko” Hassan, MPH Community Impact Director for Health and Disabilities Strategies United Way of Metro Atlanta”
Note how the circle of the purse-seine broadens. Here a United Way underling weaves the web that includes power players from Central Atlanta Progress, United Way and the City of Atlanta. Who hosts this “barnstorming” event? The City of Atlanta. Who provides the place to meet? Central Atlanta Progress. Who writes to remind others of the importance of this meeting about Peachtree and Pine? United Way staffer. Was anyone from the subject line to be discussed invited to this ‘brainstorming’ session? Not on your life. When Ko Hassan is asked in front of 12 jurors if this meeting was set to damage the Metro Atlanta Task Force, what, under oath, might he say?
I mention often the phrase “under oath.” A prominent attorney told me recently that bearing false witness in depositions happens all the time. I was startled. I said, “But those being deposed are under oath.” He told me that no one checks or punishes lying under oath if the oath is taken in a deposition. He explained that in Court this changes. Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall asked Horace Sibley and Debi Starnes in their depositions if they were aware that they were under oath. How truthful will these star members of TEAM GOLIATH answer when under oath in front of a jury?
Note: Watch for Exhibit 5 Tab 5 when CAP’s Dave Wardell tells Boss A. J. Robinson what will be discussed in the brainstorming session alluded to in Exhibit 4 Tab 4. Remember A. J. Robinson’s last word in his 7/20/2005 e-mail to his buddy, Sam “Get those scores up” Williams. Robinson wrote, “Sammy…we are keeping the pressure on. “ And the beat goes on. And the pressure goes on right now, some eight RICO years later.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 4, 2014
“…it will just give these nuts a forum.”
July 18, 2014
Steve Hall introduced the first piece of evidence to show an example of a decade of abuse heaped upon the plaintiff by the TEAM GOLIATH conspirators. He goes back eleven years using three emails written by Georgia State University Professor of American History, Chuck Steffen, Central Atlanta Progress’s Senior Project Director, Richard Orr and Central Atlanta Progress’s President, A. J. Robinson. In October of 2003 Professor Steffen put together a panel discussion to be held the evening of November 12. His email invites Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) to participate in “a panel discussion of homelessness, poverty, public space, and the ‘Let’s Do Downtown’ Initiative.’” (Mayor Shirley Franklin’s project.)
Steffen lists for Richard Orr the invitees thus far: Colin Campbell of the AJC, Rev. Timothy McDonald of Concerned Black Clergy, Senator Vincent Fort and Anita Beaty of the Atlanta Task Force. Steffen writes, “This would be a diverse panel to say the least. But it would bring together many of the leading voices in the issue of homelessness, and it would create a real dialogue at a critical moment when we most need it.” The Professor ended his email to Orr with the cordial close, “Speaking in behalf of the History Department and the larger GSU community, I do hope that CAP will accept our invitation to participate in the panel discussion.” Richard Orr never responded to Chuck Steffen; however, he forwarded the email to A. J. Robinson and to two CAP lieutenants, Paul Kelman and David Wardell. In this Orr email he wrote only, “Oh boy, here’s a hot one below.”
The next morning A. J. Robinson wrote the following e-mail to Richard Orr: “If we were to do something like this, there need to be ground rules otherwise it will just give these nuts a forum in front of the media and we lose…. Not sure we are the ones to discuss to discuss homelessness rather Sibley or Hardin or even someone from the Mayor’s office.”
Note: Always, CAP leadership chills to the bone at the thought of an open forum. Robinson operates, as he has written, “under a cloak of darkness.” An open forum suggests honest exchange. An open forum suggests the right for all sides to have a voice. An open forum suggests everyone can be heard. An open forum suggests a desire for justice. A. J. Robinson’s “these nuts” statement was written in 2003, over a decade ago. Scholars such as Larry Keating and Charles Rutheiser have shown Central Atlanta Progress to be exclusionists. And anyone who dares to oppose their Draconian policies is put into the “these nuts” category. A. J. Robinson said it best way back in 2003, “…there need to be ground rules otherwise it will just give these nuts a forum in front of the media and we lose.” This fear of being exposed by the truth was written a decade before CAP became defendants in a court of law, accused of tortious interference, racketeering and taking by fraud. In 2003 A. J Robinson avoided facing a panel discussion. Now, in 2014 he avoids at all peril facing a jury panel. Is it any wonder that Central Atlanta Progress and their fellow conspirators for four years have escaped going to trial? It’s no wonder at all; it’s the way the club works. But through it all, through it all the words ring out, “Give these nuts a forum in front of the media we lose.” Can’t unring that bell, “WE LOSE, WE LOSE, WE LOSE.”
If A. J. Robinson is anything, he’s a protector of his lair. My essay, “Justice for CAP” shows that CAP is a champion of and for justice. This great downtown giant stands for justice, every time. That is every time that those mean old NUTS gang up against CAP. Read my, “Central Atlanta Demands Justice–FOR Central Atlanta Progress” posted December 26, 2009.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
July 17, 2014
Dr. Jim Beaty 