Now we have the same thing with a sitting Lake County Mayor and Democratic Party Chair and his father, also a former mayor. Isn't this the state in which the Chair of the Democratic Party went to jail recently for fraud, kickbacks, and generally being an evil rotten human being? Yes, is the correct answer and the name is Manos.
Former mayor owes $120K in back property taxes :: Post-Tribune.
It is amazing that McDermotts try to claim that this is an honest mistake, a misunderstanding, some lost papers, etc. Everyone knows that it is a lie. A bold faced fake lie. The only reason McDermott is not in jail is because everyone is afraid of his son who has been certified by everyone who knows him and I have talked to as "certifiably crazy." Even his personal lawyer tells people that he is. By crazy I mean he has a tendency for violence and maiming of those opposed to him.
How can you tell the McDermott, the father, is lying? (Not, the obvious, that he is speaking.) McDermott says he was over-assessed at $1.6 million and that is in dispute. Well he admits that he took out a $1.2 million mortgage originally in 2002. Then he took out a second mortgage for $700,000. If he put anything down on this house, which is a big if, than it is obviously worth more than the $1.6 million assessed. It is a big if, because this is part of the sweet-heart deal from Dean White family and Whitco Industries to McDermott, Jr. and Visclosky. Now I want to know what legitimate mortgage company gives you loans on over 100% of your houses' assessed value? And then does not require you to pay the property taxes on their own leveraged property? I would love to get in on this deal. Where is the Dean White Bank when I need it? Did he take care of Dodd and Obama? Does he know Rizo from Chicago? Now we all know where to do our banking.
Everyone is quite aware that there has been a felony committed here. From everything I know Mr. Capp, the newly name US AG for Northern Indiana, is a straight-shooter who pursues political crimes irrespective of party. Here is the perfect case. Democrats, Republicans, new names, old names, business people, and politicians all combined to commit this fraud on the people of the State of Indiana. Someone needs to go to jail and only the United States Attorney can make it right. B. Carter, the Lake County attorney, is in McDermott, the son, pocket. Even the Lake County Sheriff will not move against the father. Look what happened when he moved against the son's supplier.
As an added footnote, I am sure the NWI Times newspaper will pursue this story once Tom McDermott, the tax cheat, stops visiting Bill Nangle, the Times editor, weekly. (For those of you who do not remember, it was this tax cheat McDermott, while working at the Times who broke the circulation union.)
My next entry will be how McDermott, the father, received a luxury car as a gift because of his son. Auctioneers do a lot of business in Hammond.
smiling ear to ear to see that someone has the cajones to take them on. Keep up the great posts!
Posted by: Kara Graper | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 07:55 PM