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Originally Posted by raisethehammer
yea we know....some of that stuff was posted on a different thread in this forum last week.
welcome to the world of development in Hamilton....sounds like Italy eh?
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Thanks, I went and looked it up and I see that member Goldfinger called me out in that thread (probably without realizing that I'm available for conversation). I'm not schooled on Lister enough to respond there. I'll stay with what I know...
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Great, we have allegations from unanmed sources, disgruntled memebrs of a competing Union and a left wing special interest group. No charges, convictions, inquests, etc.
LIUNA has also been seen with leaders and cabinet ministers from the Provincial and Federal Liberal parties. So I guess we should be calling Dalton, Don Dalton instead.
If you belive this to be fact, you should visit large construction sites across Canada and tell the members that you believe their union dues support organized crime.
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OK, this is a complicated story that a few of us have spent years researching. I'm going to throw some links and information at you guys and then you believe what you want of it.
It's all about
ripping off pension plans and 'other'. OC has been dipping into those types of slush funds for decades (watch Casino or anything
Hoffa related to get the gist).
Here is the step by step:
1) Take lots of money and pretend to 'invest' it in whatever (real estate in this example)
2) Get inflated receipts
3) Spend the real money yourself or invest it offshore
4) Trade and daisy chain the properties and inflated book figures until your investment can be written off as A LOSS.
5) Close the books.
That's it. There's been a minor problem for the last few years. They can't close the books. Their worthless paper 'investments' are just that. Noticeably worthless. And they can't just lose it anymore. Because people are watching. You think all the theoretical money 'borrowed' or 'invested' in the Connaught exists? You're quite the idiot if you do. They need a spectacular LOSS on paper to cover what's been invested.
The same goes for the sister going-nowhere building, which interestingly has its own wikipedia page (links at the bottom are recommended!)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_Condo
Goldfinger mentioned Liberals? Tell him I came this close
to blowing up Chretien and I wasn't even 'disgruntled' at the time! I do like the name Don Jean though.
You want charges? We're hoping that FSCO
will finally follow through on the charges. Their
reports also highlight the Connaught adventures.
You want to know if union dues support organized crime?
Do some further reading.
You can keep getting hurt by buying the crap they 'sell' you... or you can expose it and call them on it. I don't know if Hamilton has ever really tried the second option.
I'm always available to chit-chat. Even with you Goldfinger. It's been a few years now that we've been sarcastically tracking this project while feeling sorry for the cheerleaders. It's sort of like watching Leaf fans. They just don't get that the team they're rooting for... sucks ass. Good luck with Stinson. Hope this isn't his last cash-grab before he high tails it out of the country. Ex front-men are known to make millions and then run
off to the Caribbean or even
off to Germany.
But this is Hamilton. You guys can let me know if things will play out differently.