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Sledge Hammer
Attack On Man By Road Raged Driver
RENTON,
Wash. -- The Washington State Patrol says an irate driver apparently whacked a
man in the shoulder with a small sledge hammer in a road rage dispute.
Trooper
Julie Startup says authorities responded early Tuesday to a report of a two-car
collision on State Route 167 in the Renton area. They found a 33-year-old
Renton man rubbing his left shoulder.
The
man, who was driving a Nissan 300ZX, said he'd been hit in the shoulder by the
driver of a minivan.
Startup
says the Nissan and minivan drivers described a lane change and some aggressive
driving that ended with their vehicles colliding.
Brett
Carter of Bothell was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of
assault. The unidentified Nissan driver was cited with negligent driving.
EDITORIAL
On the Trail of Mortgage Fraud
Published: January 15, 2012
Queens
has been harder hit by foreclosures than any other New York borough, and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation believes it has found a culprit. Last July, the
F.B.I. accused Edul Ahmad, a local broker, of a $50 million mortgage fraud,
saying he lured fellow immigrants into subprime mortgages, inflated the values
of their properties and concealed his involvement in deals that were ruinous
for scores, if not hundreds, of borrowers. Mr. Ahmad pleaded not guilty, and
posted $2.5 million bail. Now, according to court papers, as reported in The Times, he is
plea-bargaining with federal prosecutors.
Whatever
Mr. Ahmad did or did not do, one thing is sure: he did not act alone. The
attention Mr. Ahmad has drawn highlights the relative lack of scrutiny of the
big banks and their senior executives. Big banks created demand and provided
credit for dubious mortgage loans, which they bundled into securities and sold
to investors. If not for reckless lending and heedless securitizing, there
would have been no mortgage bubble and no mortgage bust and, in all
probability, no Edul Ahmad.
There
have been some prominent civil suits with settlements and fines, including the
$550 million deal between Goldman Sachs and the Securities and Exchange
Commission over the misleading of investors in a mortgage-backed investment.
Bank of America, which bought Countrywide Financial in 2008, recently agreed to
pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit by the Justice Department over
Countrywide’s practice of steering black and Hispanic borrowers to subprime
loans while similarly qualified white borrowers got better terms. But such
cases have been narrowly focused and rarely name top executives.
What
is needed is leadership by President Obama on this issue. He should form an
interagency task force to investigate and pursue potential civil and criminal
wrongdoing by institutions and people whose conduct in the mortgage chain had
the greatest economic impact.
That
would mean focusing on the large banks and their top echelons. The
investigators would need to include the departments of Justice and Housing and
Urban Development, the S.E.C. and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as bank
regulators, with the formal co-operation of the most aggressive state attorneys
general. The task force would need a leader with the impulses of a crusading
prosecutor. The investigations to date have not had this character. The Goldman
Sachs settlement, for instance, was over one security and put the blame on a
midlevel banker. When executives have been personally penalized, the fines have
been a fraction of the wealth they amassed during the bubble. From 2000 to
2008, Angelo Mozilo, the chief executive of Countrywide, received total
compensation estimated at $521.5 million; in 2010, without admitting or denying
any wrongdoing, he paid $67.5 million to settle civil fraud charges brought by
the S.E.C. The Justice Department, for its part, decided not to pursue a
possible criminal case against Mr. Mozilo.
Lawsuits
by state attorneys general, notably in Massachusetts and Nevada, may ultimately prove more revealing
and helpful to wronged homeowners, because they tend to focus on foreclosure
abuses by banks. New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, is building a
comprehensive investigation of the mortgage chain from the origination and
securitization of loans to banks’ foreclosure practices. That may lead to more
actors in the system being held accountable for creating the mortgage crisis.
Mr. Ahmad is accused of swindling naïve borrowers in Queens. There is more to
the mortgage mess than that.
A
version of this editorial appeared in print on January 16, 2012, on page A22 of
the New York edition with the headline: On the Trail of Mortgage Fraud.
Skeeter Timothy Manos Accused Of
Embezzling From Slain Officers Fund In Lakewood, Wash
SEATTLE
-- A Lakewood police officer was charged with embezzling more than $120,000
from a fund for families of four colleagues who were shot to death while on
duty then spending some of the money on trips to Las Vegas, the U.S. attorney's
office said Wednesday.
Officer
Skeeter Timothy Manos also is accused of making purchases of several thousand
dollars at Costco and Home Depot with the money. "This is a sad day for
our community," U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan said in a statement.
"These acts betrayed the memory of our fallen heroes, their families,
fellow officers and all who supported the fund." Manos, 34, of Dupont,
Wash., was arrested Wednesday without incident at Lakewood City Hall. He made
his initial court appearance in federal court in Tacoma later in the day.
Charging documents did not indicate that he had retained a lawyer.
The
documents indicate that Manos began scheming to divert the money and opened a
hidden bank account on Jan. 19, 2010 – just seven weeks after the Nov. 29, 2009
shooting. "Stealing from the children of our fallen officers is
disgraceful," added Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist. The public
contributed more than $3.2 million to the families of the four Lakewood
officers who were shot to death by convict Maurice Clemmons at a coffee shop
while they were beginning their shifts. Clemmons fled the scene, sparking a
statewide manhunt that ended when a Seattle police officer shot and killed him
two days later.
The
criminal complaint alleges Manos bought plane tickets for himself and others
for a trip to Las Vegas, where he withdrew more than $500 at the Bellagio
casino in April 2010. Over a year, Manos spent money from the hidden account,
the records state. He went shopping at outdoor store REI, buying snowboard
goggles and boots among many other items. He also made several trips to Home
Depot and Costco, spending almost $6,000 in one day alone at the home
improvement store, authorities say.
Manos'
actions did not escape the eye of fellow officers, who began to grow suspicious
about how donations had been handled.
Earlier
this year, officer Jeremy Vahle sought answers from the union that represents
officers then went to Bank of America and asked for all accounts associated
with the guild. He eventually discovered the hidden account, documents state. Lakewood
Police Independent Guild president Brian Wurts did not immediately return
emails seeking comment.
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Mitt Romney’s secret money
By Editorial Board, Published: December 25
MITT
ROMNEY is zero for two when it comes to transparency in campaigning.
First,
Mr. Romney — breaking with the practice of previous Republican presidential
candidates, including George W. Bush and John McCain — has refused to release the identities of his bundlers,
the well-connected fundraisers who help the campaign haul in stacks of checks
adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Romney is under no legal
obligation to reveal his bundlers, other than the relative handful who are also
registered lobbyists.
Editorials
represent the views of The Washington Post as an institution, as determined
through debate among members of the editorial board. News reporters and editors
never contribute to editorial board discussions, and editorial board members
don’t have any role in news coverage.
But
that is not, or at least should not be, the end of the discussion. As Mr. Bush
and Mr. McCain, among others, recognized in agreeing to reveal the identities
and, within broad categories, amounts collected by their bundlers, the flood of
details about relatively trivial campaign donations is far less important than
knowing the identity of these essential supporters. Federal election law
requires that campaigns report the names of those giving $200 or more, but the existence
and proliferation of bundlers means the truly valuable information, about which
fundraisers the campaign is most indebted to, remains secret. Mr. Romney’s
position is an unfortunate step back.
Now
Mr. Romney has doubled down on this lack of transparency, telling NBC
that he does not intend to release his tax return seven
if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee. “Never say never, but I don’t
intend to do so,” Mr. Romney said Wednesday. On Thursday, that stance seemed to
be softening somewhat, to: “We don’t have any current plans to release tax
returns, but never say never.’’ This is unacceptable and, as with the Romney
campaign’s stance on bundlers, a sharp departure from previous practice. Some
presidential candidates, including Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) and John McCain,
balked — incorrectly in our view — at releasing tax returns during the primary
season.
Yet
it has become a given that nominees, much like presidents and vice presidents,
release their income tax returns. Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has released his,
and former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R) pledged he would do so upon becoming
the nominee. As with bundlers, Mr. Romney hides behind legal requirements. It
is true that candidates are required to file financial disclosure forms, but
tax returns provide information not otherwise available, including charitable
contributions and effective tax rates.
During
Mr. Romney’s 1994 bid to unseat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), he called on
the senator to release his tax returns to prove he had “nothing to hide.” Yet
Mr. Romney did not release his own returns during that campaign or his
subsequent run for, and service as, governor. Would a President Romney release
his tax returns? We posed that question to his campaign, twice, and did not
receive an answer.
Blacks Receive 60% Longer
Sentences For Same Crimes
A
new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B.
Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans
receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the
same crime.
The
study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a
significant difference between the sentences given to Black people to those
given to white people.
All
Gov reports:
According
to M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr,
who teaches criminal law at the University of Michigan Law School, the racial
disparities can be explained “in a single prosecutorial decision: whether to
file a charge carrying a mandatory minimum sentence….Black men were on average
more than twice as likely to face a mandatory minimum charge as white men were,
holding arrest offense as well as age and location constant.” Prosecutors are
about twice as likely to impose mandatory minimums on black defendants as on
white defendants.
Congressional Republicans Map
Strategy After Payroll Tax Cut Debacle
WASHINGTON
— When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own
leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren
over how the showdown over the Social Security tax cut turned into a year-end
political debacle. The holidays and three weeks away from the Capitol have
tempered some of the bad feelings, but several GOP lawmakers' emotions are
still raw as Congress returns for a 2012 session certain to be driven by
election-year politics and fierce fights over the size and scope of government
and its taxing, spending and borrowing practices.
In
the week before Christmas, House Republicans revolted against the Senate-passed
deal to extend the payroll tax cut for two months for 160 million workers and
ensure jobless benefits for millions more long-term unemployed. Facing intense
political pressure, Boehner, R-Ohio, caved, daring tea partyers and other
dissenters to challenge his decision to pass the short-term plan without a
roll-call vote. None stepped forward to stop him. "A lot of us who went
into battle turned around and no one was behind us," freshman Rep. Mick
Mulvaney, R-S.C., said last week, sounding like the fight was still fresh and
insistent that leadership had abandoned them.
"A
lot of us are still smarting," he added. The two-month extension that
Senate Republican and Democratic leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid had
characterized as a draw ended up as a big victory for President Barack Obama at
the end of a year in which Republicans had forced him to accept a series of
spending cuts. Grievances are certain to be aired at a House GOP retreat in
Baltimore later this week. The strategy and agenda session also will be a gripe
session for some of the 242 House Republicans. "It might be a little more
spunky than normal," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.
Senators
come back to Capitol Hill on Jan. 23.
The
wave of Republicans who lifted the GOP to the House majority in the 2010
elections emerged from their first year frustrated by the limitations of
divided government and the recurring, down-to-the-wire fights over spending –
in April, the squabble was over keeping the government operating, and in August
lawmakers dueled over increasing the nation's borrowing authority. And at
year's end, there was another rhetorical shoot-out over keeping the government
running. Tea Partiers who came to Washington intent on deep cuts to counter the
growing deficit railed against the budget numbers and the all-too-frequent
fights.
"There
was a Groundhog Day quality to 2011," said freshman Rep. Nan Hayworth,
R-N.Y. Boehner, who frequently had to rally the disparate elements of his
caucus, was a bit bruised by the year's final act. Still, he remains well in
control of his caucus, with Republicans recognizing that any leadership
challenge or internal strife now would be politically disastrous.
In
the coming year, House Republicans remain doubtful about accomplishing anything
more than the must-do spending bills and a year-long extension of the Social
Security tax cuts, unemployment benefits and a reprieve in the cuts to doctors
for Medicare payments. Congress faces a Feb. 29 deadline to agree on a new
extension, no easy task after last year's deep divisions but politically
inevitable as lawmakers would be loath to raise taxes in an election year. Uncertain
is the fate of a highway bill and reauthorization of a farm bill, legislation
that could mean jobs in a struggling economy but measures also likely to get
caught up in the typical fight over how to pay for the programs.
Republicans
are pinning their hopes on November's elections and the tantalizing possibility
that the GOP holds the House, wins four or more of the Senate seats needed to
seize control and the party's nominee ousts Obama. Controlling both the
presidency and Congress would be a mandate for significant change.
Rep.
Tom Rooney, R-Fla., bemoaned the failure last summer of the so-called
"grand bargain" between Obama and Boehner for massive spending cuts,
the promise of overhauling the tax code and reductions in entitlement programs
such as Social Security and Medicare. The bipartisan deficit-reduction
supercommittee fared no better in the fall. "It's hard to see us getting
out of the mess we're in until there's another election," Rooney said. The
year of brinksmanship produced little legislation that became law while
approval ratings for Congress dropped to single digits. The House passed 384
measures in 2011, the Senate 402, according to the Congressional Record. The
Senate had 24 bills enacted into law, the House 56 in one of the least
productive years in history.
Republicans
are gearing up for Obama campaign attacks on a "do-nothing Congress,"
ready to counter that many of their bills went nowhere in the
Democratic-controlled Senate. Top on the list: The House completed a budget
last year and the Senate did not. Last April, the House passed a $1.019
trillion budget plan that would have sharply cut spending, changed Medicaid into
a block grant program and transformed Medicare by providing voucher-style
federal payments to buy private insurance coverage instead of direct government
payments to health care providers. Democrats vilified the plan by Budget
Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and warned of the impact the Medicare changes would
have on seniors.
Ryan
is expected to unveil another budget this spring. Mulvaney said the GOP is
eager to push for changes in the budget process, beginning with requiring
Congress to pass a budget. Adding to the uncertainty in a volatile election
year are the dozen or so House Republicans whose tea party purity about
reducing the government's reach often outweighs re-election concerns, making
other Republicans nervous as the party looks to hold onto its 50-seat edge. Some
have dubbed the tea partiers the "Braveheart caucus" for their
affection for the 1995 Mel Gibson movie about William Wallace, who led the
fight for Scotland's independence. Wallace was hanged and quartered.
Man Charged For Allegedly Cooking
And Eating Cats: Jason Louis Wilmert Arrested In California
02/15/12 09:07 PM ET 
BAKERSFIELD,
Calif. — In a case that has shocked even investigators, a California man is in
jail for allegedly cooking and eating cats.
Jason
Louis Wilmert is being held in the Kern County Jail on charges alleging animal
cruelty and using a pet or domesticated animal for food. Both charges are
misdemeanors. Neighbors called sheriff's deputies when they heard cats wailing
and screeching at the 36-year-old's house in the Bakersfield suburb of Oildale.
Sheriff's
spokesman Ray Pruitt says he has "never seen anything like this." Pruitt
says investigators found evidence that led them to believe "he had the
intent to use a cat for food," but he couldn't comment directly on the
evidence. The case has been sent to the district attorney. Wilmert is scheduled
for arraignment on Friday.
Man Killed Crackhead Teen So She
Wouldn’t Sleep With Black Men
Danny
Hembree, a man from York County, South Carolina has admitted to killing
17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009 so she wouldn’t sleep with Black men in
exchange for crack cocaine.
Hembree
admitted to giving Catterton crack cocaine in exchange for sex himself, and
says he also dated her sister and mother. He is also charged with two other
murders.
BET.com
reports:
On
Monday, a jury in the trial of a 49-year-old man named Danny Hembree watched a
taped confession of Hembree saying he committed murder over interracial dating.
Hembree, who is being tried in York County, South Carolina, is accused of
killing 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009, a crime he told police he
committed after he gave crack to Catterton in exchange for sex. Yet despite the
fact that he had sex with her after giving her drugs, Hembree says he killed
Catterton to keep her from having sex with Black men in order to afford crack.
“I just released her from that,” he said in the video. “I wasn’t mad or
nothing. She was just better off.”
Rick Santorum: High Gas Prices
Caused The Recession
Rick
Santorum claimed high gas prices caused the recession on Monday. "We need
to look at the situation with gas prices today," he said Monday at a campaign stop in Lansing, Mich.
"We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble
burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because they were
looking at $4 a gallon gasoline."
"Look
at what happened," continued the former Pennsylvania senator.
"Economic decline. Here we are again. Trying to struggle out of a
recession with Barack Obama and the federal government on the backs of
business, not letting them grow. And now we have energy prices again, why?
Because of government policy."
Most
attribute the economic recession to a combination of the collapse in the
housing market and the financial crisis. However, a paper by economist James Hamilton suggested that the
oil price shock in the summer of 2008 was an important factor dragging the
economic slowdown into recession. Santorum made the same claim in early February speaking in
Colorado prior to the state's primary.
Ohio School Shooting: 5 Students
Shot, 1 Dies At Chardon High School, Suspect In Custody
CHARDON,
Ohio — A teenager opened fire in the cafeteria at a suburban Cleveland high
school Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was
chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away,
authorities said. A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that
the gunman targeted a group of students sitting together and that the one who
was killed was gunned down while trying to duck under the cafeteria table.
FBI
officials would not comment on a motive. And Police Chief Tim McKenna said
authorities "have a lot of homework to do yet" in their investigation
of the shooting, which sent students screaming through the halls at the start
of the school day at 1,100-student Chardon High. An education official said the
suspected shooter is a Lake Academy student, not a student at Chardon High.
Brian Bontempo declined to answer any questions about the student. Bontempo is
the superintendent of the Lake County Educational Service Center, which
operates the academy.
The
alternative school in Willoughby serves 7th through 12th grades. Students may
have been referred to the school because of academic or behavioral problems. The
suspect's name has not been released because he is a juvenile. The FBI said he
was arrested near his car a half-mile from Chardon. Teachers locked down their
classrooms as they had been trained to do during drills, and students took
cover as they waited for the all-clear in this town of 5,100 people 30 miles
from Cleveland. One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his
classroom for protection. Another chased the gunman out of the building, police
said.
Fifteen-year-old
Danny Komertz, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman was known as an
outcast who had apparently been bullied. But other students disputed that. "Even
though he was quiet, he still had friends," said Tyler Lillash, 16.
"He was not bullied."
Long
before official word came of the attack, parents learned of the bloodshed from
students via text message and cellphone and thronged the streets around the
school, anxiously awaiting word on their children. Two of the wounded were
listed in critical condition, and another was in serious condition.
"I
looked up and this kid was pointing a gun about 10 feet away from me to a group
of four kids sitting at a table," Komertz said. He said the gunman fired
two shots quickly, and students scrambled for safety. One of them was
"trying to get underneath the table, trying to hide, protecting his
face." The slain student, Daniel Parmertor, was an aspiring computer
repairman who was waiting in the cafeteria for the bus for his daily 15-minute
ride to a vocational school. His teacher at the Auburn Career School had no
idea why Parmertor, "a very good young man, very quiet," had been
targeted, said Auburn superintendent Maggie Lynch.
Officers
investigating the shooting blocked off a road in a heavily wooded area several
miles from the school. Federal agents patrolled the muddy driveway leading to
several spacious homes and ponds, while other officers walked a snowy hillside.
A police dog was brought in. It wasn't clear what they were looking for. Teacher
Joe Ricci had just begun class when he heard shots and slammed the door to his
classroom, yelling, "Lockdown!" to students, according to Karli
Sensibello, a student whose sister was in Ricci's classroom.
A
few minutes later, Ricci heard a student moaning outside, opened the door and
pulled in student Nick Walczak who had been shot several times, Sensibello said
in an email. Ricci comforted Walczak and let him use his cellphone to call his
girlfriend and parents, Sensibello said. She said her sister was too upset to
talk.
Heather
Ziska, 17, said she was in the cafeteria when she saw a boy she recognized as a
fellow student come into the cafeteria and start shooting. She said she and
several others immediately ran outside, while other friends ran into a middle
school and others locked themselves in a teachers' lounge. "Everybody just
started running," said 17-year-old Megan Hennessy, who was in class when
she heard loud noises. "Everyone was running and screaming down the
hallway."
Rebecca
Moser, 17, had just settled into her chemistry class when the school went into
lockdown. The class of about 25 students ducked behind the lab tables at the
back of the classroom, uncertain whether it was a drill.
Text
messages started flying inside and outside the school, spreading information
about what was happening and what friends and family were hearing outside the
building. "We all have cellphones, so people were constantly giving people
updates – about what was going on, who the victims were, how they were
doing," Moser said. The school had no metal detectors, but current and
past students said it had frequent security drills in case of a shooting.
Anxious
parents of high school students were told to go to an elementary school to pick
up their children.
Joe
Bergant, Chardon school superintendent, said school was canceled Tuesday and
grief counselors would be available to students and families. "If you
haven't hugged or kissed your kid in the last couple of days, take that
time," he said.
___
AP
writers Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and Julie Carr Smyth and Andrew Welsh-Huggins
in Columbus contributed to this report.
Homeless Teen Gets House After
Excelling In Science Competition
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. – Samantha Garvey and her
family had been living in a Long Island shelter for several days when they got
word the 17-year-old
aspiring marine biologist had made it to the semifinals of the
prestigious national
Intel science competition. Now, with donations coming in and the
county finding them rent-subsidized housing, she’ll again be able to do her
homework in a home.
“This is just the most amazing
thing you could ask for,” the diminutive Garvey said at
a news conference Friday, surrounded by her parents, brother, sister and a
cadre of politicians and school officials.
“We’re all in tears here,” she
said after Suffolk
County Executive Steve Bellone announced that the Department of
Social Services had located a nearby three-bedroom house where the family could
live. “This is what we’ve always wanted.”
Garvey is one of 300 teenagers
nationwide named this week as semifinalists in the prestigious Intel science competition;
finalists will be announced at the end of January. She spent more than two
years researching the effects of the Asian short crab on the mussel population
in a Long Island salt marsh.
“What Sam found was that, like
after anyone, after being attacked you develop a tough skin of shell,” said her
science research teacher, Rebecca
Grella.
“These mussels were able to increase their thickness and protect themselves
against their predator.”
Grella noted the link between Garvey‘s
challenges and those of the mollusks she studied. “I do believe that is an
amazing metaphor,” Grella said, “and I do see Sam as a strong mussel.” The Brentwood High School senior, who
has applied to Yale and Brown universities, was evicted along with her family
from their home on New Year’s Eve. Her mother, Olga, a nurse’s assistant, was
out of work for eight months following a car accident in February, and her
father, Leo, could not keep up with the bills alone on his salary as a cab
driver.
Housing prices on Long Island are
among the highest in the country, even in Brentwood, which has struggled with
gang violence in recent years. A three-bedroom home there recently sold for
$291,000, according to Lisa Kennedy, a broker with Eric G. Ramsay Associates. A
three-bedroom ranch is renting for $1,800 a month, she said. The Garveys will
pay 30 percent of their monthly income to rent the county-owned property,
officials said.
Gregory Blass, the county
commissioner of Social Services, said the family was already known to officials
because they were staying in a shelter, making them eligible to move into the
house. He said the county works to place about 30 to 40 homeless families a
month from shelters into apartments or homes. He insisted the Garveys received
no preferential treatment because of Samantha’s notoriety. The house is
undergoing renovations and should be ready for the Garveys in
about 10 days, Bellone said.
Leo
Garvey,
Samantha’s father, said that after the eviction he took his family to a hotel
for a week because he did not want them spending New Year’s in a homeless
shelter. But he finally had to contact Suffolk County Social Services for help
last week; they were then placed in a shelter. This week came the accolades for
Samantha’s scientific feat, and the offer for the family to live in a home of
their own. Her story has gotten coverage nationwide.
Once sponsored by Westinghouse, the
Society for Science and the Public has been running the competition since 1942.
Over the decades, contest finalists have gone on to some of the greatest
achievements in science. Seven have won a Nobel Prize. Before the eviction, the
Garveys had rented a home for six or seven years, Leo Garvey said. Before that,
the family had also lived in homeless shelters from time to time; Leo Garvey
described himself as a recovering alcoholic. Samantha said that she had worried for
several months before the eviction, knowing that her mother was ailing and
money was tight.
“I ordered a senior picture and I
said, `I don’t know where to send it. I don’t know what’s going to happen. What
if we move, what if we get evicted,’ which we did,” she said. “You’re out in
limbo. You’re like, `What’s going to happen to my mail, what’s going to happen
to my college applications. Where are they all going to go?’ It’s scary.”
In addition to the county
housing, officials said the Marriott Corp. is donating “several thousand
dollars” of furniture for the family to use. Others have offered to pay kennel
fees for the family pit bull. “It’s unbelievable; the outpouring of help that
we’ve had,” said Leo Garvey. He made reference to a news conference also held
Friday in Suffolk County announcing the latest winner of a Mega Millions
lottery jackpot. “I feel richer than that $208 million winner.”
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