8/9/2019 Broward Times Article Exposes Pompano Beach Community
Redevelopment Agency Lack of Authority to Grab Land
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For Immediate ReleaseRe: Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA) v. Gil Eriksen
Properties LLC; Case No. 06-004169 (21)
BROWARD TIMES IS FIRST TO EXPOSE THE LACK OF
AUTHORITY OF THE POMPANO BEACH COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO TAKE PROPERTIES UNDER
FALSE GUISE OF EMINENT DOMAIN
Pompano Beach, FL, June 14, 2010 TheBroward Times, now called
the
South Florida Times, was the first media organization to cover
the the finding that
the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency in Broward
County,
Florida wasnt a legal agency and didnt have the power of eminent
domain to take
properties, even though it had been stealing properties for a
decade. Elgin Jones,
longtime writer for the newspaper, has repeatedly uncovered and
exposed
government corruption in his column,Around South Florida, and
was first to
document the court ruling finding the CRA to be without
authority in his article,
Redevelopment agency cant seize business, judge rules. Mr. Jones
was recentlyshocked to hear that a five year-old eminent domain
taking case of Pompano
Beach CRA v Gil Eriksen Properties LLC is still going on from
that time, even
though the agency that filed the suit was found to have no
authority to exist, let
alone seize property.
Attached is a copy of Elgin Jones first breaking article on the
topic. Since
the original coverage 3 years ago, the Pompano Beach
Community
Redevelopment Agency, the Pompano Beach Commission, and the
Broward
County Commission and circuit and district courts have attempted
to ignore, deny,
devalue, and cover-up the ruling and subsequent scandal,
speculated to perhaps toavoid a class action by all those affected
by the decade of illegal property seizures.
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The problems facing the Community Redevelopment Agency have
not
ceased, however. As it stands now, the case whereby the property
of Gil Eriksen
Properties LLC was seized by the Pompano Beach Community
Redevelopment
Agency with no authority is being seen as Constitutional
offense, and is still open
and unresolved after five years, which many are calling out as a
further obstruction
of justice, blockade of due process, and cover-up. The property
owner is still owed
$4 million dollars in restitution, even though the Pompano Beach
Community
Redevelopment Agency took possession of the private property
four years ago,
and has since destroyed it.
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