INTERESTING NOTES/HAPPENINGS/QUESTIONS
I had several friends & relatives, who frequented my trial that we lost in; some of these people were fluent in understanding legal procedures unlike ourselves. They came offering counsel and support. Many of them believed that even if we had won this case, no matter what the verdict or outcome would have been monetarily, that most surely there would have been an appeal, so as not to set a precedence, or let this information that we had, leak out to the public or press. In other words, several of the people who came and sat with us, stated that we knew too much about the Mold Issue, and that most of the entities involved here, would do just about anything to keep this quiet. This is not to mention, that the mobile home industry, with all the flaws we found with them, could possibly be exposed as well. Our case actually was a double or triple threat to too many entities involved, whether directly or indirectly.
During the course of the years that we have been involved in this case, I had been warned by numerous people; including law-enforcement officials, attorneys, business owners, etc., to be careful about "what you know". Thus meaning that I/we, were up against serious money here, and that these people would use any methods to try and stop this information from being revealed.
ODD/STRANGE OCCURANCES
*Sometimes, before some of our legal proceedings, we would recieve obscene phone calls with unlisted numbers, which we assumed were accidental miss calls. None of these happened at any other times, and havent since.
*We have had nearby neighbors, mention that they had people in the community tell them, that we were just suing to get money from the entities involved in this case, and that we werent sick at all. Of course none of these people have ever seen the home, or investigated or looked at our medical bills either.
*The most bizarre incident came when a candidate for sheriff, came by my home one day, stating that a certain individual in the community, who lived closeby, had shown him a pile of video tapes, and told him that we were dealing drugs, and that he had been monitoring our home and business for years now, and that he wanted him to help him incriminate us should he be elected. It has been the laugh of the community, not to mention, what an idiot. First of all, any drug dealer I have ever heard of, steers clear of the juducial system, and/or trying to do what is morally right, second of all, if this were true, why would we be fighting for what is rightfully ours that we have lost, as we would naturally have plenty of money if this were the case, and want out of the spotlight with the legal system entirely, furthermore, going up against a system with big money, while our whole family was sick at the same time, and trying to get well, not to mention, some of the people we knew, that had quit talking to us in the community, not only due to one of the entities we were suing, and his ties to many of the people in our community, due to his long established business and political influence in the area. We have always wondered if big insurance, or any of the entities being sued might have been behind this. A lady who had been in a terrible Mold lawsuit out in Texas, that recieved national attention, reccomended that we watch a particular movie called, "Runaway Jury", as she said it depicts the lengths that some insurance comapnies will go, to get something on you or to set you up, especially if you are onto something that could cost them huge sums of money. She mentioned that on 2 seperate occassions, that men broke in her home during her lawsuit, and she actually shot one of the men in the back with a rifle.
* We had a man working at our home one day while we were at a legal proceeding. He stated that his truck was parked where it could not be seen from the road, as he was raking leaves and loading them into his truck behind our home. He stated that a vehicle drove up the driveway, and as he saw it, he went to it, and asked the man what he needed. He stated that the man said that he had worked for me years ago, and was just coming by to say hello. We have an electronic gate, so he asked the man how he got in, and he said the man showed him a large device like a programming analyzer, that he said he got in the gate with, my man said he had never seen a gate opener like this one before, as he knew ours all looked the same. He said the man left immeadilately after seeing that I wasnt home. How odd we thought, we sell equipment, we meet by appointment due to owning 2 businesses that we run, and this has never happened before.
*The day of our first trial, whereby the judge recused himself, we were at home, getting ready for a 9AM trial, I smelled smoke, looked out our window, and appx. 1/4 mile away at my office, I saw a large fire burning at appx. 6AM. Of course, this is where we had a place to burn wood at times, but it was starting to get into the field before I could get to it. I put the fire out immeadiately. Then, what really concerned me; was that we were in a severe drought and under a burn-ban, for actually everything south of I-20/appx. 75 miles away. This would have burned up not only my land, but possibly all the neighboring woodlands that our lands join. How convenient to not be able to be at a trial you have been waiting almost 3 years for, not to mention, possibly being arrested for arson, etc.
Since this Legal Undertaking of ours started; we have never seen the likes of how popular our property has become. (Sometimes I've wondered if we owned land that now had acquired some type of hidden secrets or treasures, that surely we dont know about)! We've had everything from Grave-Seekers, Artifact & Relic-Hunters, Lost and/or Delerious, as well as possibly Drug-Crazed Tresspassers, People wanting permission to fish in water 3-6 inches deep, near a road/bridge, then to see these same peoples relatives, running on foot, from this same area, so as to get in their cars to race away, when traffic or we would approach our gate to leave our property, of course we had not granted any permission as well. One and/or two women at a time, coming to our business, so as to buy heavy equipment, and/or farm related equipment, of course never purchasing anything, but some we could tell were drinking, and/or using drugs, some were just plain provocative towards men. People inviting you on their property, so as when you arrive, they then try to initiate an incident or fight, then thereafter, usually every time you see them, are nice again, and continue to invite you to come over to their property again to see them, and/or have issues they call you usually at night about, we presume to get us back on their property. There are other issues as well, but how ironic, in 20 years of doing business, as well as a lifetime of never facing any of these odd occurrences, they all transpire while engaged in this legal delimna.
*There were many former employees, as well as others, who had worked for this mobile home dealer that we purchased our home from, who I met from time to time, usually from being out in the public, that would tell me they were sorry about what all had happened to my family, and even wanted to know if we had ever been compenstated for our losses. These people would even provide damning evidence about some of the atrocities that they saw this dealer commit, some of them would go into details about why and how this happened to us. They sometimes would mention that some of the same things that happened to our home, they had seen happen to others years before this/our delimna. Later, when I and my attorney went to see them in person, they either couldnt remember anything. or simply wouldnt talk, but the ones that would, would tell everything that they knew, but asked that we not drag them into court. We understood that they were for the most part scared.
*The saddest part about all of this, is that we have lost a few friends over this, and even had a few relatives that didnt want anything to do with us, or this issue anymore. For the most part, it was because they didnt want to have to testify, and/or verify as to what they had seen with this home, that they knew for a fact, was wrong, but would have put them at an inconvienence, or at odds with some of the social fabric in the community that some of the people we were bucking would not like.
*There are other things that happened, that are really bizarre, but cannot be proven, but are well documented, but, what really matters here, is that the people get the proper information with this exposure in its entirety, so as to help other families or those deling with any of these type delimnas. Ours just happened to be Mold!
"When your one step ahead of the crowd, your a genius, when your two steps ahead, your a crackpot!"
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (Feb. 1998)
