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To: ManyMoose who wrote (84726)	1/7/2012 5:51:04 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

Man Makes 3 Calls to 9-1-1 about Westland Break-In, Gets Ticketed Friday, 06 Jan 2012 by RON SAVAGE WJBK \| myFOXDetroit.com myfoxdetroit.com WESTLAND, Mich. (WJBK) -- She arrived home after work at Woodcrest Apartments in Westland, but was frozen in fear when she saw her front door had been kicked in. "My mom called me, said someone had kicked in the door," said Sean Street. I actually got dressed. I drove over to her house. It probably took me approximately an hour to get there." He called 9-1-1 to report his mother's break-in, then hustled from his West Bloomfield home to his mom's apartment on Wayne Road in Westland. He said it took him one hour. Now, he and his mom were waiting for police. Sean called 9-1-1 again. He said he waited one more hour, but still no police, so he made a third 9-1-1 call. Did he lose his temper? "Actually was no profanity whatsoever. I was very polite with them. The officer actually seemed very polite, also, and he told me let us handle it. Don't take matters into your own hands," Street explained. He said a witness claimed he saw the guys break-in and that person waited for police to arrive. "He said that he talked to the witness upstairs. The witness wouldn't tell him exactly who it was. He just told him that it was two guys wearing black hoodies and that there was nothing they could do about it," Street said. "I asked him if they would've came on time, the guys would've still been there? He said, if you want us to have a faster response time, contact the mayor to see if we can arrive on time faster and have more police officers." So, no arrest. Then, a week later, Sean Street got a misdemeanor ticket in the mail. The ticket read "Malicious use of communications device misuse of 911." He must appear in court. The ticket says Street repeatedly called 9-1-1 escalating a police run because he was unhappy with the response time. If convicted, he faces a $500 fine and 90 days in jail. Street said he called 9-1-1 three times and does not believe that's excessive. "They found the time to write me a ticket. They never followed up with my mom about the investigation, the detective at all, but the detective actually had time to write me a ticket for that," Street told us. Street said he'll contest the ticket with Westland Police.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (84726)	1/9/2012 7:20:49 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

New Chief of Staff: Former Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Money Off Mortgage Defaults Jan 9, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER weeklystandard.com From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments," as the Huffington Post reported. The piece also reported: “Lew made millions at Citi, including a bonus of nearly $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after the bank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue, according to disclosure forms filed with the federal government. The bank is still partly owned by taxpayers.” Of course, one should not begrudge Lew his personal, professional, and financial successes. But one might wonder what kind of message the president is sending with this appointment. “I welcome constructive input from folks in the financial sector. But what we’ve seen so far, in recent weeks, is an army of industry lobbyists from Wall Street descending on Capitol Hill to try and block basic and common-sense rules of the road that would protect our economy and the American people,” Obama said in 2010. “So if these folks want a fight, that’s a fight I’m ready to have.” In announcing Lew today, the president mentioned his previous work at the State Department and in the Clinton administration. Obama did not mention Lew's past of making billions of dollars for Citibank just a few years ago. President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. So of course there should be little surprise that Obama's latest chief of staff, announced today by the president himself, also has deep ties to the financial industry himself.