The Book In A Nutshell
This book is about an influential businessman’s crime of evading payment of legally required fees in obtaining an illegal building permit issued by the Anne Arundel County’s Permit Office that colluded with the businessman. But that was just the tip of the iceberg.
The real shocking story is in the systemic corruption that followed on appeal of his crime involving the Anne Arundel County’s Board of Appeals, Circuit Court, and Maryland’s 2nd highest court, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. The judges in all three of these courts committed their own crimes of obstruction of justice by using biased, unethical and corrupt tactics designed to avoid the law while supporting the businessman's crime.
The corrupt tactics included: suppression of evidence and law, misrepresentation of testimony, reliance on perjured testimony rather than law, and a cover-up by the County’s attorney to obstruct justice; this was followed by crooked judges that lied, misinterpreted and misquoted the law violating their own ethics and review standards, and a dirty trick to boot! The result? The law and justice were destroyed by this cesspool of systemic corruption allowing the influential businessman to evade the payment of fees and operate under his illegal permit.
Jack Patermaster, the book’s author was also the appellant in the case, and used his skills as a former federal audit manager and CPA to compile the documents and other detailed evidence of the corrupt acts by each of the three appeal courts as well as the County’s Permit Office-businessman collusion.
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Related Improvements Update
From publication in June 2006, to March 2008, this book had been distributed to two Maryland governors, Maryland and Anne Arundel County legislators, and Anne Arundel County’s Executive, John R. Leopold prior to his taking office. Mr. Leopold subsequently replaced the County’s attorney and the Director, Inspections & Permits (DI&P). In January 2007, the County’s Council replaced the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the County’s Board of Appeals. The former Vice Chairman had presided over this corrupt case. Additionally, Governor Martin O’Malley replaced the long-time Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland who was in-charge during this case, a very significant improvement indeed. Finally, the County’s library attempted to limit citizen readership of this book by ordering only one book to serve 15 branches. This was overcome when the wait time went from 55 days to “undetermined,” at which time three more copies were ordered at my suggestion.
Continued Violation of Laws by Anne Arundel County
Although Mr. Leopold replaced the former DI&P on taking office, his new DI&P, Ms. Dixon, has continued the violation of law initiated by the prior County administration. This is evidenced in a series of three letters in 2007 followed by four letters in 2009 necessitated by Ms. Dixon’s stonewalling my letter of December 14, 2007. My initial complaint was made to Mr. Leopold in a letter dated October 17, 2007 enclosing pictures of illegal slip usage, continued violation of the ADA law requiring the designation of handicapped parking spaces, and the violation of the County’s parking law requiring parking spaces for resident boaters. Mr. Leopold passed that letter to Ms. Dixon for reply. Her letter dated November 21, 2007 stated that she did not have the permit file and accompanying plans since it has been more than three years since the permit was completed. However, she based her conclusion on aerial photos and computer records on the permit that there are currently no violations on marina site. Her letter contained false statements and a nonsensical relating of square footage in the marina as justification for noncompliance with the ADA law’s requirement for designation of handicapped parking spaces. Faced with those false statements, false justification and erroneous conclusion, I rebutted her letter of November 21, 2007 with mine of December 14, 2007 with six attachments and a copy to Mr. Leopold, the County Executive. Ms. Dixon chose to stonewall this letter.
Then, after giving Ms. Dixon a year to respond to my December 14, 2007 I wrote a follow-up letter dated January 13, 2009 to Mr. Leopold re: Non-response to my letter of December 14, 2007 to Elizabeth L. Dixon, copy sent to you. This letter prompted a phone call on February 9, 2009 from Mr. Leopold’s ADA Coordinator, asking for a copy of my letter of December 14, 2007 to Ms. Dixon. In a letter dated February 9, 2009 to the ADA Coordinator I enclosed all four of the prior letters from October 17, 2007 to January 13, 2009, and stated: “It is clear from her letter of November 21, 2007, that Ms. Dixon, Director of Inspections and Permits, had no on-site inspections since the new marina began operations in April, 2001 to rely on for compliance with the ADA act as well as other violations of the permit in use of illegal slips.” The ADA Coordinator apologized for the delay in a letter to me dated July 27, 2009, and stated that she and Ms. Dixon had visited the site earlier this year to inspect for violations. She then stated that as a result of this on-site visit and conversations with the marina’s on-site manager, the Department of Inspections and Permits stands behind the letter of November 21, 2007which found no violations at the site. With respect to the ADA, due to the private nature of the marina, critical area issues, and the type of the work previously completed, designated accessible parking is not necessarily required.
Then, in a follow –up letter to the ADA Coordinator dated August 3, 2009, with copies to Mr. Leopold, Ms. Dixon, and Ms. Johnson, the South Anne Arundel County Council member, I asked about the erroneous statements and conclusions and violations of the County Code that exist in Ms. Dixon’s letter of November 21, 2007? And that Ms. Dixon’s stonewalling a response to the facts stated in my letter of December 14, 2007 is avoiding the truth and the law, relying on her erroneous statements and conclusions without properly considering the law.
As to the ADA law, Title lll applies to commercial facilities, and the marina has been designated an MA2-Commercial marina in the County Code. Under the ADA law, a minimum of 2 accessible spaces is required for this marina and defines the term “accessible parking” as the appropriate designation and location of spaces and their connection to an accessible route. I then asked the ADA Coordinator for the exception in the ADA act that would avoid ‘designation’ of handicapped parking at this marina. I stated further that I realize that you are in an advisory role for only the ADA issues. But, based on your letter I feel that you are being used for more – including a means for Ms. Dixon avoiding a response to my letter of December 14, 2007 which she obviously does not want to do. As a citizen of Anne Arundel County whose taxes pay for Ms. Dixon’s salary, I believe that I am entitled to a response from Ms. Dixon to my letter of December 14, 2007 rebutting her letter of November 21, 2007. As of this writing (September 20, 2009), I have not received any communication from anyone in the County’s government on the forgoing issues.
About the Author
JACK PATERMASTER, is a graduate of Maryland University and a
CPA. He served 26 award-winning years performing and managing
“operational audits” which go beyond financial statements into the
efficiency and effectiveness of operations in the Federal Government. During that time, he was a charter member of the Defense Supply Agency (now Defense Logistics Agency) and served in the National Science Foundation and the Inter-American Foundation. That experience has served him well for reviewing the legal compliance and ethical failures noted in this book. Since leaving Federal service, he has served as a consultant and currently is the president of PCB, Inc., a publishing firm. In 1994, he received a patent for developing the concepts in the book he later authored entitled Whizbal, America’s Simplest Checkbook Balancing in 3 to 6 Entries. Previous to that book, he developed software called Patermaster’s Checkbook Balancer,America’s Simplest Checkbook Balancing Program.
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