Corruption Rampant In Montco; Resident Describes To Commissioners Cronyism And Falsifying Documents

Corruption Rampant In Montco; Resident Describes To Commissioners Cronyism And Falsifying Documents — Sean Connolly took his peeled onion to his county commissioners, this morning, March 21.

“I know about the corruption that goes on in Montgomery County,” he said.

Connolly said deeds and certificates of occupations have been falsified, and crimes were covered up by law enforcement. He laid all at the feet of Josh Shapiro who chaired the Montco Commissioners before becoming Pennsylvania attorney general in 2017 and then governor in 2023.

He said Shapiro was involved in a backdoor deal with Scott Rifkin to sell the 200 acre county-owned Parkhouse property as county commissioner.

Connolly, a former Montco deputy sheriff, said Shapiro had a long-standing personal relationship to the Toll family of Toll Brothers developers. He said Shapiro has taken substantial campaign contributions from the Tolls and that he has worked to cover up complaints over Toll Brothers homes such as water-intrusion..

That’s what started Connolly’s crusade. He had purchased an expensive Toll Brothers home in 2017. There were problems even before he moved in and he, his wife and kids were living in a hotel. After he moved in, things were not fixed.

The roof leaked. There were gas leaks, and frozen pipes. The framing from basement to roof was compromised.

He said there were about 20 other homes in his development with the same problems.

He said the certificate of occupancy had been falsified by the township code inspector. Connolly said he contacted police and nothing happened. He sought his records via a right-to-know request and what police gave him was redacted.

Connolly said his deed was illegally recorded.

He was unable to get relief from the authorities — whether at the municipal, county, state or federal level — that allegedly protect citizens in such matter.

So he has taken the matter to the public.

Yesterday, he was interviewed by Emerald Robinson and gave far more detail than he was able to in the three minutes granted by the Montco Commissioners.

He has also started the website TollBrothersFraud.com in which he shows the receipts he acquired on his journey.

Connolly has branched off into investigating the other scandals involving Montgomery County. In his three minutes before the commissioners he cited the one concerning conservatorships. In an interview afterwards, he said there is a looming child sex scandal.

Some have accused Montco’s courts of using their power in the appointment of guardians to rob the elderly of their estates. The late talk show host Marti Oakley had it as a regular topic.

We have written several times about Elaine Mickman who says the county has worked with her ex to strip her of her home and assets.

Today we met Arthur who brought a sign saying “DA Steele Protects Guardianship Corruption.”

Arthur also has a website: ProtectMyParents.us

There is a whole lot of smoke in Montco and somewhere we think there is a raging fire.

Other ugliness revealed, today, was that King of Prussia was the nation’s second largest source of child trafficking behind Las Vegas.

A woman, who said she worked at one of the county’s Jefferson-Einstein hospitals, said young foreign women constantly arrive to give birth. The fathers are invariably “disgusting” American men with fake address. She was in near tears. She said she fears what happens to the babies after they leave.

Commissioner Tom DiBello backed her up. He said that Pennsylvania is the worst state in the nation for child trafficking due to its location and interstates.

One speaker said that taxes rose 34 percent over the last four years.

The commissioners passed a bizarre Soviet-sounding ordinance establishing a “Food Policy Council”. This would include “stakeholders” who are people who have no stake in the production or profitability of an enterprise.

Commissioner Neil Makhija said the county has 600 farms but only six percent grow vegetables.

Resident Joe Rooney of Abington called out their stupidity.

He said this was a five-year Soviet plan.

“How many of you people have ever raised chickens?” he asked. “How many of you have ever raised turkeys?”

We have a suspicion that there will be a whole lot less than 600 farms by the time this bunch is through.

There are a whole lot of half-acre backyards in Montco that would make just peachy vegetable patches. Who needs swimming pools and barbecue pits? Hey Neil, let all your wealthy suburban supporters know they can solve this problem themselves.

Despite the serious problems, today’s action by the commissioners was mostly creepy wokeyness. There were poetry readings and celebrations of women’s history month. Makhija took great pride in the upcoming “pride” month. Why one would take pride in pointless, dangerous and deviant sex remains a puzzle.

Maybe in a few short years the child traffickers will get a month of their own.

Corruption Rampant In Montco; Resident Describes To Commissioners Cronyism And Falsifying Documents
Arthur with his sign outside the commissioners meeting room.

The interview by Emerald Robinson of Connolly along with Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes: https://frankspeech.com/Video/the-absolute-truth-with-emerald-robinson-joined-by-leah-hoopes-greg-stenstrom-and-sean-connolly

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Delco Says No Illegals At Don Guanella; Sanctuary Status Again Subject

Delco Says No Illegals At Don Guanella — Delaware County (Pa) Council vehemently denied, last night, March 20, the rumors that unused institutional buildings will soon house illegal immigrants.

The latest involves the former Don Guanella building on Sproul Road in Marple.

The building had been used by the Catholic Church to house and teach boys with mental disabilities. It is zoned residential/industrial.

The county acquired it in 2021 as part of a plan to develop a 213 acre park.

Solicitor Jonathan Lichtenstein said the reports that it will house illegal immigrants are false. He repeated the denials that the shuttered Springfield and Delaware County Memorial hospitals will be used likewise.

While it is possible that the county could be out-of-the-loop regarding plans for the privately owned hospitals, the county is either out-and-out lying regarding Don Guanella or one can be confident there are no plans that it will be used as housing.

Lichtenstein also said the county will not be hiring illegals, a subject that came up regarding its ordinance change allowing for out-of-county workers.

The Don Guanella property was rumored to be on the agenda at last night’s Marple Zoning Hearing Board. It was not, though. We have heard that it will go before the township planners, however.

Sanctuary County

Council also took issues with claims made March 6 that Delaware County was a “sanctuary county”.

Councilwoman Christine Reuther said the county has researched the minutes of council meetings going back several years and has not found a declaration that Delco was a sanctuary county.

Ms. Reuther said the source for the claim was Center for Immigration Studies, which was somehow biased or untrustworthy.

She said the claim is based on a policy that the county prison will not house illegals solely due to their immigration status and that this follows federal law.

This was hotly discussed here in 2016.

The discussion ended when Bryan Griffith of Center for Immigration Studies sent us a now-broken link to a Temple University Study from March 2015 that said Community Education Centers, which then ran the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, instituted a policy on Aug. 5, 2014 that it would not hold individuals based solely on ICE detainers.

At least our county officials are getting warmer to the truth. Last meeting, they said it stemmed from Delco agreeing to join the US Department of States Refugee Resettlement Program in January 2020.

Wikipedia also lists Delco as a sanctuary for illegals for what it’s worth.

And former Philly Major Jim Kenney has also called Delco a sanctuary.

Illegals do seem to go free here after committing serious crime. Consider Sharon Devaney’s testimony about how an illegal speeding through an intersection in Haverford nearly killed her and her daughter.

And then was freed by police.

In public comments, Kathy of Haverford asked if the county was going to use NGOs as cover to house illegals

She also took issue with the semantic games being played regarding the use of illegal immigrant vs the virtue-signalling undocumented worker.

Opioid settlement

Council was told that the county has received $10.6 million of the $63 million it is to get over 18 years from the $1.07 billion that Big Pharma Johnson and Johnson has agreed to surrender to Pennsylvania for its destructive opioid pill pushing.

The county can only spend the money on things relating to opioid remediation and must do it in a limited time.

It will be giving $4.1 to various universities, hospitals and non-profits.

Councilman Kevin Madden noted that four people die each week in Delco from an opioid overdose.

Kathy of Haverford asked if any of the money could be used at the prison.

Zencity

Council approved 27 consent items including a one-year, $60,000 professional services agreement with ZenCity Technologies US Inc.

Zencity is an artificial intelligence-based software claimed to give local governments “true knowledge” about what their communities want rather than having to consider points made by people speaking at their meetings.

Carris Kocher of Concord noted the Zencity is a foreign entity with headquarters in London and Tel Aviv and expressed concern about how it would be used.

Public Comments

Carl Bell (phonetic) took issue with proposed changes to elections. He defended Dominion voting machines and said hand recounts would take forever.

Dean Dreibelbis of Edgmont said our election security systems was not certified for current environment.

Kimberly Brown of Colwyn took issue with council’s public comment policy, and the jail oversight board.

Laura Lewis of Radnor noted that the Dominion Voting Systems documents leaked to Sheriff Dar Leaf of Barry County, MI showed that Serbians could remotely access Dominion voting machines.

She also said that France could hand count its election in a day.

Carl McIntyre (phonetic) of Upper Darby thanked council for a grant for his LGBT organization.

Kathy from Haverford asked why County Council no longer allows comments on its Facebook page. She said that this violated a recent Supreme Court decision banning blocking of comments by government leaders.

Councilwoman Reuther said Delco’s cyber security was more robust than required and that Leaf shouldn’t be trusted because he was a Trump supporter or something.

She said County Council can block comments on its Facebook page because it blocks them from everybody. She said people had been putting too much misinformation on the site.

Delco Says No Illegals At Don Guanella -- Delaware County (Pa) Council vehemently denied, last night, March 20, the rumors that unused institutional buildings will soon house illegal immigrants.

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Delco Gets Report On Libraries

Delco Gets Report On Libraries — Delaware County (Pa) Council, last night, March 20, was told that Marple and Middletown public libraries were among the best in state but there may be as many as 10 that were below average and on their way out.

Council was told that the average cost of a library in a community is $30 per capita and the county’s average is $26 per capita.

Councilman Kevin Madden said community libraries are surprisingly growing in importance in the day of the internet. He said they are not just for books but are becoming community centers.

He noted Delaware County has more municipalities per square mile than any other county in the country. This has led to the county’s old and crowded southeast quadrant to have what might be the high density of community libraries in the county.

Wannabe hipster wine moms have led to some unnecessary controversy, though, regarding the library’s place in the community.

Carris Kocher of Concord said she did not want tax money going to drag queen shows for kids.

Joy Schwartz of Upper Darby said that illegals appear to be camping at the Bywood branch of her township’s library system.

Councilwoman Christine Reuther responded by saying just because they are homeless doesn’t mean they are illegals.

The video of the meeting can be watched here.

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History Was Topic At Delco Council


History Was Topic At Delco Council — Delaware County Council, last night, March 20, approved an $85,000 grant to the Delaware County Historical Society for preservation of its collection.

The Society has sold it’s long time headquarters at 408 Avenue of the States in Chester and is looking to move.

In public comments Carris Kocher of Concord said the amount was too late too late.

Councilman Kevin Madden took issue with her. He said that while the building may be sold but the collection is safe.

The vote was 4-0 with Madden abstaining as he is on the Society’s board.

In another matter of history, Janet Lloyd Murphy of Middletown expressed concern that county might have forgotten its promise of help for a project to restore The Old Main building on the Crozer Chester Medical Center campus in Upland into the MLK Center for Peace and Justice.

She said she reached out to county officials in February but had not heard back.

Solicitor Jonathan Lichtenstein said he had gotten her message and would be contacting her.

County Executive Director Barbara O’Malley approached her after the meeting and said the county was fully behind her project.

The Old Main was part of the Crozer Theological Seminary where Martin Luther King Jr. studied. His dorm room was in the Old Main.

Yeadon Mayor Rohan K. Hepkins asked council to give its support for celebrations honoring Flag Day. Yeadon was the home of William T. Kerr who got the event recognized as a national holiday in 1949.

He said he has invited Joe Biden and Gov. Josh Shapiro to a celebration and asked the county to consider providing a grant.

History Was Topic At Delco Council

History Was Topic At Delco Council

Delco Passes Movie Making And Residency Changes; Bond Issue

Delco Passes Movie Making And Residency Changes; Bond Issue — Delaware County Council, last night, March 20, unanimously passed ordinances allowing commercial movies to be filmed in county parks and to allow the issue of general obligation debt of $74.5 billion to pay for infrastructure projects.

It also passed with Dr. Monica Taylor dissenting an ordinance to allow the hiring of non-county residents for all jobs except those requiring local residency by state law.

Carris Kocher of Concord said she had asked courthouse workers if taking an oath was still a requirement. It wasn’t as there were many employees who weren’t citizens. It would be unfair to ask them, she was told.

She asked if at least citizenship would be a requirement.

Joy Schwartz of Upper Darby asked if the county would hire people without permanent addresses.

Carl Bell (phonetic) asked why the need to hire outside the county.

Councilwoman Christine A. Reuther said she would be happy to hire someone without a permanent address. She said the law need changing because of trouble hiring people.

Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer said that Delaware County was the only county in the state besides Philadelphia that had a residency requirement. She supported changing the law.

Councilman Kevin Madden said he has changed his mind over the past few years due to the hiring problems.

Councilman Richard Womack said he also changed his mind. He noted the number of positions the county already exempts from the resident requirement.

“You might as well get rid of (all exemptions},” he said.

Ms. Taylor, the lone dissenter, said it was best to hire from within Delco.

In the second round of public comments, Mrs. Kocher returned and emphasized the need for a citizenship requirement.

She noted that that foreigners are being hired by many counties to help run elections.

Bell also returned and asked if the county could hire from other states. He also wanted to know how the new policy could help get workers if Delco was still paying less than other counties as one council member said.

There was no discussion regarding the bond issue and the change to the movie making rules was greeted positively by all.

Kathy from Haverford said she had relatives in the movie industry and the county would have no problem getting filmmakers to pay a fee for the use of the parks.

Delco Passes Movie Making And Residency Changes; Bond Issue

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