How cannot "CARS FOR CASH" not remind you of "KIDS FOR CASH?"
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Victims (the poor almost solely targeted)
.... had no one to turn to
... had no one to file a report with
... and seemingly no one even cared
See how "CARS FOR CASH" thrived for years!
I tried helping people but got stuck in the "death loop" below.
WHY AM I ATTACHING AN OWNER's TITLE (BOTTOM)?
BECAUSE IT BELONGS TO A LAG VICTIM (who I will call "Dee). IN CITIZEN'S VOICE ARTICLE BELOW, GLODZIK SAYS, "I GUARANTEE NONE OF MY TITLES ARE THERE (CREDIT UNION)."
PLEASE KNOW THIS: LEO WILL STEAL YOUR CAR WITH OR WITHOUT A TITLE.
I AM SHOWING YOU PROOF BELOW. DEE's CAR WAS STOLEN AND I AM HOLDING HER TITLE IN MY HAND.
LEO GLODZIK and DESSOYE/ DIRTY COPS /LEIGHTON ARE PREDATORS.
THEY HAVE ENRICHED THEMSELVES OR MINIMALLY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY FOR OTHERS. IT APPEARS THE CREDIT UNION IS ALSO IN ON IT.
LEO'S FAVORITE TARGET? POOR, BLACK, AND FEMALE. DEE FITS THIS PROFILE.
AND WHO DO YOU THINK CALLS FOR THE TOWS? THE SAME COPS WHO GET "LOANER" (BRIBE) CARS FROM LEO. HOW CONVENIENT.
I TRIED HELPING 3 POOR, BLACK, FEMALES WHO HAD THEIR CARS STOLEN.
TRYING TO GET JUSTICE WAS LIKE TRYING TO GET OUT OF A CLOSED LOOP.
WHO DO YOU COMPLAIN TO?
THE COPS? When LAG destroyed my car... the cops lied so blatantly to me that I took a polygraph test. I knew it was the start of a quest. A mission. The cops became very quiet after the polygraph.
GO TO CHIEF DESSOYE? I can see you are laughing
GO TO MAYOR LEIGHTON? I can see you are laughing.
GO TO MAGISTRATE? Misdemeanors and felonies are automatically tossed by DA.
PRIVATE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT to DA OFFICE?
Here's the problem. The DA only accepts complaints through a police station.
THIS MEANS THE DIRTY COPS ALWAYS WIN. AND THEY ARE UNDEFEATED.
STATE POLICE? They keep you in closed loop by sending you to the police or to the DA.
THIS IS THE CLOSED LOOP. THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO.
I FILED A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FOR THE WOMAN (ON THE TITLE) BELOW
EVERY CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FROM A CITIZEN GETS TOSSED.
THE DA MUST CHANGE THE SYSTEM. WE AREN'T MAKING THIS STUFF UP.
THE CITIZENS HAVE ZERO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SYSTEM.
How do you get a police complaint from dirty cops? You can't
I experienced the same thing in Forty Fort with our dirty chief Hunsinger when it came to (now) 27 lewd and disgusting letters I received with no return address. I wanted to file a complaint.
Wouldn't you?
But he wouldn't. WHY? Because the WB police told the FF police what to do.
And they obeyed.
If FF Mayor Tuzinski or his wife received these filthy letters the chief's would move real quick - you can be sure of that.
I have an open invitation for Hunsinger to take a polygraph on the important parts of this case and his part in refusing me fair and equal access to the law.
THERE HAS BEEN NO MECHANISM TO GET PAST DIRTY COPS.
WHY DO YOU THINK GLODZIK GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR 8 YEARS?
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Back to "Dee" who had her car stolen.
This is what she wrote on an affidavit
... which was included on the private criminal complaint
... which was tossed in the garbage by the DA office.
"Glodzik told me a bill of $475.00 was due
to retrieve the vehicle on the 3rd day. We did not have those funds available My son needed
his tools and other personal belongings from the car. These were the options given me:
1)
Bring what is due, or
2)
Bring us the title
to your car and we will buy it from you for a dollar."
Sound fair to you?
I hope that you, the corrupted, you are proud that you have hurt the weakest and the poorest and least connected.
There is a reason hell was made.
Wilkes-Barre officers, ex-towing contractor are focus of federal credit union investigation
By Bob Kalinowski, Michael R. Sisak and Bill Wellock (staff writers)
The FBI is looking at possible connections among Wilkes-Barre police officers, auto loans and the city's longtime towing contractor as part of a wider investigation, The Citizens' Voice has learned.
Agents have conducted dozens of interviews, including the late-night interrogation of a former police officer, and this month subpoenaed numerous credit union records, including loan agreements, according to law enforcement officials and others with knowledge of the case.
Agents also wanted the credit union's director, Jim Payne, to appear before a federal grand jury in Scranton, according to the law enforcement officials, but Payne was found dead at his Bear Creek Township home March 10 - the day before his scheduled testimony. Luzerne County Coroner Bill Lisman ruled the death a suicide.
That night, according to law enforcement officials, the FBI interrogated recently retired Wilkes-Barre police officer Tino Ninotti, whom agents believe had knowledge of possible connections among the officers, the loans and the towing contractor, Leo Glodzik III.
Multiple people with knowledge of the case said Ninotti also received a target letter identifying him as a subject of a grand jury investigation.
The law enforcement officials and others with knowledge of the case spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak or they did not want to interfere with the ongoing investigation.
Ninotti, 34, left the Wilkes-Barre police department on a disability claim Jan. 8 after 11½ years on the force. He made $63,686 a year, according to Wilkes-Barre spokeswoman Liza Prokop.
Reached by telephone March 14, Ninotti said he knew nothing about the investigation.
"I don't know what's going on," Ninotti said.
He did not return subsequent telephone messages, including one left Friday as The Voice prepared to publish this story.
Prokop said the city "is not notified of individuals receiving target letters on any investigation," and city officials said they were not aware of any current or former police officers being questioned or targeted by the FBI.
Federal authorities are conducting several simultaneous investigations related to Wilkes-Barre City Hall, including a probe of 67,000 gallons of gas taken from municipal pumps between July 2010 and July 2012.
Wilkes-Barre police Chief Gerard Dessoye, in a March 21 interview, said the FBI had not asked for any information from the department or for permission to speak with anyone in the department in connection with the ongoing investigations.
Dessoye said the FBI had not talked to him about any investigations and said he had no information about whether any officers were being investigated. He said no officers had come to speak with him about any investigations.
Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tom Leighton said Saturday his administration has not been made aware of any investigation into city police officers. He refused to speak about the FBI looking into connections among cops, loans and Glodzik, saying he had no evidence of those alleged ties.
"I can not run the city on rumors. When facts are presented to me, then I will react. Until then, I can't respond," Leighton said in a telephone interview. "If someone provides me something that is factual, if someone is arrested, call me and I will respond."
Leighton said it would not be appropriate to launch an internal city investigation based on speculation because he has no evidence of what the FBI is investigating.
"How can we be proactive if there is an investigation by outside law enforcement?" Leighton said. "Why would we investigate something that may or may not be true? The city is not the investigator in this situation."
Wilkes-Barre Councilman Tony George, the city's former police chief, said he heard rumblings about police officers being investigated, but did not expect the city administration to be forthcoming.
George said he had first-hand knowledge last year that the FBI seized police department records for vehicles towed by Glodzik's company, LAG Towing, but the city administration stonewalled him.
"The last time they were served, and they denied they were served," George said of the subpoena for the towing records. "They denied they received anything. I'm not in good graces with the administration."
Leighton, in the interview Saturday, denied leading George astray about the FBI's requests for LAG Towing records. He said he was not sure if the subpoenas for the records were issued at the time of George's request.
"He had asked about it," Leighton said. "At that point, there was nothing."
Glodzik, in multiple interviews, has repeatedly denied involvement in or knowledge of the federal investigation. Glodzik said he was not interviewed by the FBI in connection with the probe and has not received a target letter.
"All these cops aren't connected to me," Glodzik said March 24. "If a cop slips on a banana peel, is it because of me?"
Glodzik, 43, said March 12 he knew Payne as an "honorable guy" and a "friend of mine," and held a personal checking account and a credit card through the institution Payne managed, the Wilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union.
Glodzik, who sometimes stores more than 90 cars on the LAG Towing lot on Carey Avenue, according to a Google Earth satellite image of the property, said March 12 he "never bought vehicles" and "never got a loan" through the credit union.
A person with knowledge of the credit union subpoenas confirmed the FBI asked for auto loan agreements but would not say if they involved Glodzik or his towing company.
"I'd be careful with what you write. I know none of my titles are involved," Glodzik said Friday after a reporter told him federal agents were looking at officers, loans and him. "That's all rumors. I guarantee none of my titles are there. Not a one."
Last April, Glodzik admitted letting Wilkes-Barre police officers borrow luxury cars and trucks, including a Mercedes-Benz and Chevrolet Camaro, that he owned despite a policy that forbids them from accepting favors and gifts.
He also said at the time that he had recently sold Officer John Majikes a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck for a "couple thousand bucks," and had sold five or six other vehicles over the years to officers he considered friends.
City officials suspended Glodzik's contract last June after prosecutors charged him with felony theft and a misdemeanor count of theft from a motor vehicle after he allegedly split more than $2,000 found in a towed car with a state police trooper, who was acting in a sting operation.
Glodzik said he saw the sting case, being prosecuted in the state court system, as evidence that federal agents were not interested in him.
"If the FBI wanted me, they wouldn't let the state touch me," he said.
The FBI has declined to publicly disclose the nature of the subpoenas served on the credit union or the focus and scope of the investigation, but Sean Quinn, the director of the bureau's Scranton office, said soon after Payne's death "there will be arrests forthcoming."
"These things take time. We have evidence that is solid and we are going to move forward for sure, but these are small pieces of the puzzle," Quinn said March 11. "The overall puzzle is a wide thread of corruption across a wide swath of government."
The Wilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union serves employees of Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes-Barre Township and Plains Township and their families. The credit union has more than 2,200 members and controls assets worth $41.8 million, according to a financial performance report filed with the National Credit Union Administration, the federal credit union regulator.
The credit union is not a part of city government, but several current and former city employees serve on its board of directors. The agency leases an office on the first floor of Wilkes-Barre City Hall for $750 per month, according to city records.
Quinn, in the March 11 interview, said the FBI considered the credit union as a "witness" and a "victim" in an ongoing criminal investigation. Individual employees of the credit union were potential targets of the investigation, Quinn said. Payne was one of three employees at the credit union, according to a 2013 report filed with the credit union administration.
The credit union's attorney, Dominick Pannunzio, declined to identify whose loan agreements the FBI requested. Pannunzio, in multiple interviews, said he is unsure of the focus or scope of the investigation.
"I'm trying to put it together myself," Pannunzio said. " I wish I knew."
The credit union had 1,065 outstanding loans as of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the credit union administration, including: 324 for used cars, at an interest rate of 6.2 percent, worth $2.9 million; 47 for new cars, at an interest rate of 5.4 percent, worth $859,648; and 552 unsecured loans or lines of credit, at an interest rate of 11.8 percent, worth $2.25 million.
The FBI served its first subpoena on the credit union March 6, four days before Payne died, asking for "any and all documents" for a group of individuals, including auto loan agreements. They returned with additional requests the following week. Pannunzio said he turned over the records to the FBI last Tuesday but is still unsure what the agents were looking into.
"At this time, I'm not aware of any wrongdoing whatsoever regarding credit union activities,"
Pannunzio said. "I have no knowledge of any wrongdoing whatsoever."
bkalinowski@citizensvoice.com 570-821-2055, @cvbobkal
msisak@citizensvoice.com 570-821-2061, @mikesisak
bwellock@citizensvoice.com 570-821-2051, @cvbillw
