Pompano Beach Mayor Lamar Fisher Called Out As Crime Kingpin 601hl

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For Immediate Release Re: Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) v. Gil Eriksen Properties LLC; Case No. 06-004169 (21)

POMPANO BEACH MAYOR LAMAR FISHER MISUSES PUBLIC OFFICE - CALLED OUT AS CROOKED KINGPIN Pompano Beach, FL, July 10, 2010 – Pompano Beach Mayor Lamar Fisher has a record of misusing his publicly elected office for his own benefit, and in a recent scandal involving the improper use of eminent domain to take properties from Pompano Beach citizens, churches, and businesses, Lamar Fisher is being called out as a crooked kingpin. One eminent domain case in the scandal involves a newly restored historical multi-million dollar landmark property that the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency seized in its desire to demolish its buildings and resell the valuable land to unnamed developers. Lamar Fisher in addition to being Mayor, is also the Chair of the so-called Pompano Beach Redevelopment Agency and under his leadership this agency seized properties left and right for years. However, a Broward Circuit Court and Florida District Court ruling found that at the time of the eminent domain filings, the Community Redevelopment Agency wasn’t authorized to be formed, let alone seize properties through the highly regulated power of eminent domain. But this did not stop Fisher, and he is still pursuing the seizing of property for private development (and one might add, private profit). Mayor Lamar Fisher has been a longtime commissioner and CRA member, his family are longtime Pompano Beach power players, and he is currently the President and CEO of the family’s Fisher Auction Co. specializing in auctions of yes, real estate and “government surplus.” He has already been penalized for Florida State ethics violations in 2007 by doing city business as Mayor with his own auction company. So it is no surprise that Lamar Fisher and the Pompano Beach Commission are in a massive fight to block the adoption of a City ethics code for Pompano Beach’s public officials.

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Even now Lamar Fisher while at the same time Mayor, is currently auctioning foreclosures in Florida for the profit of his nationwide company and huge lenders. In January of this year, Lamar’s Auction Company also profited from the ponzi scheme of Floridians as his company received 10% of proceeds from auctioning off former Fort Lauderdale attorney and $1.2 billion dollar Ponzi schemer, Scott Rothstein’s office effects. Back in 2005, Lamar Fisher was also found to have violated the Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law (or Open Meetings Law) for meeting in private with then Sheriff Ken Jenne (who would later be sentenced to a year in prison on federal racketeering corruption charges) before a vote to extend the city’s contract with Jenne’s office. Yet so far, Lamar has always seemed to escape any real punishment, able to buy his way out of trouble in fines and receiving only slaps on the wrist while still remaining in office. That is, perhaps until now. Recently the Mayor’s resignation has been openly demanded in televised Pompano Beach Commission Meetings by scores of citizens and justice groups looking to stop the racketeering and restore a government of the people for the people in Pompano. Also, the Supreme Court of Florida has recently convened the 19th Statewide Grand Jury on Public Corruption to root out the corruption epidemic in Florida, and thanks to FBI stings, those close to Fisher have been recently sent to jail for fraud and bribery, such as Vincente Thrower, an advisor to the Community Redevelopment Agency. As far as the eminent domain fraud, it has come out in the way of letters about the eminent domain takings as well as the findings of the courts denying Fisher’s Community Redevelopment Agency seizure of property for lack of authority that the Mayor knew of the abuse of public office and the illegality of the takings. Yet Fisher is continuing the same crimes to this day, specifically in taking of the aforementioned landmark property in Pompano Beach CRA v Gil Eriksen Properties, a case that has been also called out for obstruction of justice on the part of the Community Redevelopment Agency, the City Attorney Gordon Linn, and case attorney Mitchell J. Burnstein. It seems now Mayor Fisher’s influence may have worn out, the emperor is suddenly without clothes, and even his cronies may not be willing to risk their necks to help him out of yet another tough spot. For more information on the Pompano Beach CRA illegal land grabs visit http://www.wojspubs.com For more information on the 19th Statewide Grand Jury on Public Corruption visit http:// myfloridalegal.com/19thstatewidegrandjury

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