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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53170)	9/10/2013 5:29:48 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By average joe Respond to of 85487

it's the DC gov have you ever dealt with them ? it's like being in africa, only worse

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53170)	9/10/2013 11:08:01 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

I've seen properties go to unannounced public auction and some aspiring young lawyer gets his brother to bid on it through a numbered company for his offshore trust. Or worse the people are declared incapacitated and the property goes to the public trustee and gets sold for pennies on the dollar because the trustee is a complete nitwit or crook. In one instance a 160 parcel of minerals sold for $2200 that now hosts four Bakken producers. Trust the government - yeah right.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53170)	9/11/2013 11:31:00 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By Jorj X Mckie Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Legal, doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a problem, but it does mean you shouldn't toss people in jail for 20 years for it. If its legal and shouldn't be then the law should be changed, but ex-post facto laws, punishing people for when the act was legal, are unconstitutional and otherwise problematic. Notice in this case its the government who has the lean. They farm off collections (and much of the profits) to some private actor, but there the ones who set up the situation in the first place. Sure the private collector is acting like a major a-hole but the DC government is the body that set up the "lose your hose over $134 bill" situation.