Anonymous ID: 7ba911 Feb. 6, 2022, 2:33 p.m. No.15563159   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3331 >>3411

Company sues man on life support with COVID in order to recoup loan

 

A Bronx landlord who’s clinging to life thanks to COVID-19 was slapped with two lawsuits over a $23,000 high-interest loan he was forced to take out during the pandemic-related rent moratorium, according to a new lawsuit.

 

The lending company Premier Capital Funding LLC is hunting down Jeffrey Schneider — who is on life support — to repay $58,000 for the loan he took out in May through his company Remie Realty Corp., according to court papers filed by Schneider’s wife.

 

Schneider, the landlord of a rent-controlled building in the Bronx, sought the $23,000 life line when his struggling tenants stopped paying rent, the court filing says.

 

He managed to pay back $25,000 of the roughly $35,000 total he owed on the high-interest loan before coronavirus all but killed him.

 

“This debt that started out with the merchant [Remie] receiving $23,000 has now exploded into an $85,000 debt,” Schneider family lawyer Ashlee Colonna Cohen told The Post. “He’s already paid $25,000 of it and they are still asking for more.”

 

Schneider’s wife, Cindy Schneider, said the virus has left him “on a ventilator and extracorporeal life support (ECMO machine),” according to an affidavit filed last month.

 

Jeffrey — who is fully vaccinated — is “fighting for [his] life,” his family said through Colonna Cohen.

 

The New Jersey resident fell on heard times during the pandemic as the state eviction moratorium allowed for many of his tenants to stop paying rent, leaving him without any recourse and “severely hampering [his company’s] ability to generate revenue,” the wife’s affidavit explains.

 

Cindy said she was unaware that her beleaguered husband “sought short term, extremely high interest, loans called ‘merchant cash advances’ to help with the shortage of funds” – including the one from Premier that he would need to repay to the tune of $35,750 under the agreement, the court paper says.

 

Jeffrey came down with COVID-19 in early November and landed in the hospital on Nov. 7, where he has remained since, the affidavit says. He was placed on life support in Nov. 29 — and Premier filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court two days later when his payments stopped.

 

The family offered to fork up the $11,000 of the remaining debt “in a lump sum and they still rejected it. They wanted their fees,” Colonna Cohen said.

 

Cindy is now asking a judge to reverse a Jan. 4 default judgment that Premier secured for $38,000 against Jeffrey since he is “incapacitated, disabled and unable to protect his interest or appear in this action” and since he was only allegedly served with court summons by email that Cindy didn’t see at the time, the affidavit says.

 

Cindy says she didn’t find out about the default judgment until Jan. 10 when a check she’d written to an employee from Remie Realty bounced because Premier had all of her husband’s personal and business accounts frozen to recoup the $38,000. An additional $5,000 fee is slated to be collected from the city Marshal’s office because of Premier’s levy on the accounts, the court papers allege.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/02/06/company-sues-man-on-life-support-in-order-to-recoup-loan/

Anonymous ID: 7ba911 Feb. 6, 2022, 3:13 p.m. No.15563425   🗄️.is 🔗kun

AEC cracks down on Twitterati, lets breaches by major political parties slide

 

While the AEC has been blocking its critics on Twitter, it is not so diligent when it comes to policing myriad breaches by the major political parties. Stephanie Tran reports.

 

The once-a-year data dump by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) often conceals more than it reveals, as the major parties are afforded loopholes such as high disclosure thresholds and the enigmatic “other receipt” which serve to conceal the true nature and extent of their political funding.

 

Year after year, political parties receive tens of millions of dollars in “dark money”.

 

This week, The Centre for Public Integrity, published research showing over $1.38 billion (29.5%) of political party funding since the 1998-99 financial year is of unexplained origin. In the 2020-21 financial year, some $68 million (38.6%) of party income was of unexplained origin.

 

You won’t see who has been funding this year’s federal election as the donations data only happens once a year. By the time the February disclosures come along they are already at least 7 months old. We won’t see this until next February.

 

Despite the poor disclosure laws and – this to be revealed shortly – rampant compliance failures by political parties, the AEC has been blocking its critics on social media this week. The independent government agency has come under fire for an alleged lack of independence. We won’t go into the detail of the Twitter spat but suffice to say blocking critics on social media is an unusual step for a government agency.

 

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/aec-cracks-down-on-twitterati-lets-breaches-by-major-political-parties-slide/

 

Aus gov is on the ropes

 

Bob Carr doubles down on Dutton comments

 

Former NSW premier Bob Carr has doubled down on his claim that Defence Minister Peter Dutton is the cabinet minister who called the Prime Minister a “complete psycho” in a text message.

 

Mr Dutton has denied the allegation and last night labelled Mr Carr’s social media post “baseless” and “untrue”.

 

This morning, the former Labor premier and ex-foreign minister fired off another tweet.

 

“Only one way Peter Dutton can win his case: get another colleague to admit that they were the source for comments about the Prime Minister,” he wrote.

 

“If not you, Mr Dutton, which of your colleagues? Until then, who has the most to gain from undermining further a flailing PM?”

 

Earlier today, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg described Mr Carr as “suffering from a bad bout of relevance deprivation syndrome”. Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has questioned what a former Labor politician would know about a sitting Liberal MP’s text messages.

 

Mr Carr was NSW premier between 1995 and 2005. He also served as Australia’s foreign minister during Julia Gillard’s prime ministership.

 

https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-barnaby-joyce-text-fallout-continues-nation-s-total-covid-19-cases-continue-to-grow-20220207-p59u9d.html

 

Josh Frydenberg responds to Bob Carr after former Labor leader suggested Peter Dutton was behind 'complete psycho' texts

 

The Treasurer suggested former NSW Labor leader Bob Carr "suffers from a bad bout of relevance deprivation syndrome" after he claimed Peter Dutton was the alleged minister behind the character assassination text message exchange of Scott Morrison with Gladys Berejiklian.

 

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/josh-frydenberg-responds-to-bob-carr-after-former-labor-leader-suggested-peter-dutton-was-behind-complete-psycho-texts/news-story/d9835560bd58384714e1b40d64b8ae13

Anonymous ID: 7ba911 Feb. 6, 2022, 3:19 p.m. No.15563468   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Canadian capital declares state of emergency over Freedom Convoy

 

Ottawa mayor calls emergency due to ongoing anti-Covid mandate protests

 

Ottawa mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency, citing “serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents,” as Freedom Convoy truckers and their pedestrian supporters continue to occupy the capital. The move comes after Watson lamented earlier on Sunday that police have been outnumbered by the demonstrators, and indicated he wants the federal government to help squash the protest.

 

“The situation at this point is completely out of control because the individuals with the protest are calling the shots,” Watson told Newstalk radio. “They have far more people than we have police officers and I've indicated to the chief that we have to be much more nimble and proactive when it comes to these activities.”

 

Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for support from other jurisdictions and levels of government

 

Before announcing the emergency, Watson pleaded with the federal government to “sit down and have some kind of a discussion, some kind of mediation to get this situation resolved because it’s now spreading across the country.”

 

Watson’s statements echoed an admission from Police Chief Peter Sloly on Saturday. “We do not have sufficient resources to adequately and effectively address this situation while adequately and effectively providing policing in this city,” the top cop said during a meeting with the Ottawa Police Services Board. Referring to the demonstration as a “siege,” he insisted it was “something that is different in our democracy than something I’ve ever experienced in my life.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/548494-ottawa-mayor-emergency-freedom-convoy/