Guess who’s still littering the City of Minneapolis with illegal snipe advertising? Jesse Olson!

You may remember real estate agent Jesse Olson from a May 2010 Faces of Snipe. In fact, Jesse Olson was the very first illegal advertiser highlighted in Faces of Snipe.

Apparently, Jesse didn’t get the message. I talked to Jesse tonight, and he said that he probably shouldn’t be putting up signs around city. “Probably?” I asked. He then admitted that it was wrong. Again.

Since requesting nicely on the phone, and blogging about his behavior have both proven ineffective in getting Jesse Olson to stop littering in the city, I’ll try contacting his associations to see if they are willing to uphold their own standards. For example, section 5a of the Minnesota Real Estate Investors Association’s (MnREIA) Code of Ethics and Standards states:

5. MnREIA members shall not engage in unprofessional conduct, including, but not limited to:

a. a departure from or failure to conform to applicable federal, state or local governmental rules or, if no such rule exists, to the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing in practice;

Jesse Olson has repeatedly violated that standard. Will the MnREIA take action? We can only hope.

By the way. Jesse Olson is no longer with Bell Home Realty. He’s now with MyHomeBuyers.com. His LinkedIn profile claims that he was with Bell Home Realty through 2009, yet I called Bell Home Realty in May 2010 and talked to a person who confirmed that he worked there at that time.

That’s my 2nd Eden Prairie addition, following Nathan Mueller’s criminal activities ($8.5 million embezzlement).

In Jennifer Bjorhus’ report at the StarTribune, Bjorhus reports that Delich’s lawyer is going to fight for lenience in the sentencing by arguing that Delich was a “minor player”.

That doesn’t seem to correlate with the facts, as I understand them.

Delich was the mortgage broker, which means she was the one who controlled the money. She was the one would could have said no. Or, as Delich’s lawyer concedes, “[Delich] said she did what Trooien told her to do” which means that, rather than doing her job, she committed wire fraud and money laundering.

However, I’m now discovering that Wells Fargo isn’t the kind of company I’d like to see profiting from my debt.

The five separate investigations were conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general and examined Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial, the sources said.

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The audits conclude that the banks effectively cheated taxpayers by presenting the Federal Housing Administration with false claims: They filed for federal reimbursement on foreclosed homes that sold for less than the outstanding loan balance using defective and faulty documents.

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According to the sources, the Wells Fargo investigation concludes that senior managers at the firm, the fourth-largest American bank by assets, broke civil laws. HUD’s inspector general interviewed a pair of South Carolina public notaries who improperly signed off on foreclosure filings for Wells, the sources said.

This is kind of a big deal. In fact, the companies involved in this fraud offered to pay $5 billion (with a “b”) to settle this (without admitting any wrongdoing, of course). The government responded by stating that that’s WAY too low a figure, and that $30 billion (with a “b”) is a more reasonable figure to make up for the pain they’ve caused American taxpayers. $30 billion in fraud is the like stealing $100 from every single American.

So, I’m looking for advice on how I may be able to convince Wells Fargo to sell my mortgage to a more reputable lending institution. Any ideas on how I can convince them to get rid of me would be greatly appreciated.

PS: I believe I was told (and even signed off) at my closing that Wells Fargo would be buying my mortgage. That was before I realized that this company was ripping off taxpayers. Turning back time is tough without a DeLorean.

Julie commented here that she also saw him there. Apparently, he kind of creeped her out, which left an impression.

OMG, that guy was giving me the stink-eye in the hallway before the opening statements! I had no idea who he was, or why he transfixed by my camera. I guess he was scared of someone documenting his presence and ruining his cover. I should’ve taken his picture but he totally creeped me out!

I then wrote a post outlining 46 reasons why Paul Koenig may be the blogger behind the Jordan Hawkman blog (a blog that harasses community activists with an emphasis in housing in North Minneapolis).

Which triggered one of the most rambling denials I’ve ever seen written. An 1,884 word blog post appeared on the Jordan Hawkman blog that was a supposed interview with Paul Koenig. As the twisted story goes, the Jordan Hawkman blog claims to have gotten in touch with Paul Koenig and interviewed him (while curiously flipping between first and third person accounts) about the accusation that he’s behind the Jordan Hawkman. That post included some real gems, like this:

We decided to contact him today to advise him of The Deets article stating that he was The Jordan Hawkman.

Koening’s reply (which he did give us permission to print) was: “Who thinks I am what?” We reiterated the comment and he said he had not had a chance to read it and was not even aware of who this person was. He said he does not get caught up in that stuff as it does not really matter.

A commenter on The Deets named M. Clinton got a kick out of the Koenig “interview”:

OMG! Did you see the Jordan Hawkman’s “response?” Totally busted. Talk about “He who protesteth too much!” LOL! You don’t even need to read the whole thing. Just look at the length of it – how the rationalization goes on and on and on and on . . . Yup, the online equivalent of Paul Koening getting his pants pulled down just happened today! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Here is another excerpt from the Koenig denial interview:

JHG asked : “Has Jeff Skrenes ever contacted you?”

Response: No, I never even heard of the guy all of the years I owned properties.

That’s a shocking statement, considering that Jeff Skrenes has written dozens of blog posts reporting on Paul Koenig’s crumbling slumlord empire, Koenig’s legal issues with a bank he borrowed millions of dollars from, and Skrenes was quoted in the StarTribune’s recent article about the destructive impact Koenig’s slumlord empire has had on the City of Minneapolis:

City inspectors recently found problems with all of Pamiko’s 14 remaining holdings. Seven houses are vacant or condemned, the others have delinquent property taxes or unpaid citations, according to city records. Earlier this month, the city moved to revoke Pamiko’s rental licenses for seven properties. Koenig appealed, saying he no longer owns them.

The crackdown happened only after some Pamiko houses deteriorated and were left vacant, boarded up or condemned, said Jeff Skrenes, housing director for the Hawthorne Neighborhood Council. “Property ownership is a right, but renting is a privilege,” Skrenes said. “You should be required to show that you deserve that [privilege].”

Apparently, Paul Koenig also didn’t read the CityPages’ excellent cover story by Andy Mannix from February 2010 about Paul Koenig’s PAMIKO Properties, LLC where Skrenes is credited with breaking the story about Koenig’s crumbling slumlord empire:

So Skrenes did some digging. The more he looked at it, the stranger it appeared.

“This is like the Alice in Wonderland of mortgage,” says Skrenes. “This gets so convoluted …and I get this shit!”

Skrenes discovered that a company called Pamiko Property LLC had taken out at least three multimillion-dollar lines of credit from Minnwest Bank. Owned by a married couple named Paul and Michelle Koenig, Pamiko put up scores of largely north Minneapolis properties on each loan as collateral. Then Pamiko began losing some of the properties to banks—a combined total of more than 40 properties.

That article also included a map of Paul Koenig’s PAMIKO slumlord empire.

Strange, isn’t it? Do you believe that Paul Koenig doesn’t read the press he receives? Are we really supposed to believe that Koenig wouldn’t remember the name Jeff Skrenes, who’s latched onto the PAMIKO mess more ferociously than a pit bull?

As I mentioned in the title, there is yet another twist in this convoluted story of anonymity and denial: The Jordan Hawkman has now deleted their “interview” with Paul Koenig.

Jordan Hawkman’s Deleted “Interview” with Paul Koenig

As I see it, while what someone writes can be interesting, what someone deletes often says even more about them. Why would the Jordan Hawkman delete their exclusive interview with the man behind one of Minneapolis’ largest slumlord empires?

I’d hate for you to miss out on a chance to read this amazing “interview” with Paul Koenig in its entirety so here is a link to a PDF of it I snagged from Google’s cache.