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My final offer to Art was that I was still willing to make him the same
offer I had made to him at Dennis's office. If he would tell me how the
government got to him I'd let him walk clean. Art declined my offer without
even giving it a thought. He did make a last ditch effort by pleading with me
to accept his offer. He insisted that I had no clue of what I was up against or
what they could do to me. I ended our meeting by thanking him for coming over,
and I told him that Dennis would contact him with an answer.
Before Art left I knew what the answer had to be. If I couldn't get Art to
talk, I didn't stand a chance and he and I both knew that. There was no doubt
about it, Art was definitely more afraid of them than he was of me. With the
attitude Art had, he had to have been confident that they would protect him
from anything I could do to him. This theory was proven when the Toledo Police
Department refused to accept the forgery and theft charge.
If you question this theory, ask yourself how confident you would be, given
the same circumstances as Art. Remember, he admitted to me and Dennis that he
didn't have my permission to sign my name to the check and then cash it, which
means that he forged the check and stole the money which is against the law.
You'll have to admit, if he didn't do anything wrong, he would never have
offered to pay the money back in the first place. That's just common sense.
I went back and talked it over one more time with Dennis. I decided they
were right, there was nothing I could do but accept Art's offer, which I think
any reasonable person would have. It was $41,466.90 plus 18% interest or
nothing.
I can only say this so many times without becoming repetitive. But I did
not, under any circumstances, want this agreement. It's important that you
understand that I never asked Art for any money nor did Dennis. What I wanted
was the truth. I wanted to know who got to Art and how they did it. This was a
hard pill to swallow because I never thought anything like this could ever
happen to me. I will say one thing though, it sure did open my eyes to how
corrupt the government and the legal system really are. After this experience I
don't think that I'll ever trust them again. No way in hell.
| Now that all of this was over, I had another decision to make: What would I
do now? Do I sit around and feel sorry for myself, or do I get up and start all
over again? I have to admit I was really bitter after experiencing all of this,
but I knew that I had to get over it and forge ahead. I decided that the best
way to start the process was to go back to school and earn my GED, which I did.
I also went on to attend the University of Toledo where I achieved Dean's List
status. Besides attending college, I started Iiams Painting & Drywall
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Over the course of the next four years I built the business up to the point
where I was so busy that I didn't even have the time to finish my degree. Over
that same time period I had constant trouble collecting the money Art was
supposed to pay me. As a matter of fact, we were in the fourth year of the
three-year contract when I finally told Dennis to contact Art and demand
payment in full. I'd had enough. He would either pay me what he owed me on the
contract he and Dennis talked me into, or I'd sue the son of a bitch.
Well, after Dennis talked with Art, he contacted me and said that Art told
him he was not going to pay me the balance of what he owed. He said Art told
him that he felt we had coerced him into signing the agreement, and he thought
the contract was illegal. Dennis also said that Art was prepared to fight back
if I decided to sue him.
After I heard this, the first thing I asked Dennis was whether the contract
he and Art drew up was legal. Would it hold up in court? Dennis's answer was
yes, it was a legal contract and yes, it would hold up in court. I told Dennis
that he and I both knew differently about who talked whom into signing this
contract. Dennis agreed again. So I asked Dennis to file a lawsuit against Art,
and once again he agreed. This is when everything started all over again, and I
was introduced to the extortionists from the Internal Revenue Service.
After Dennis filed the lawsuit against Art he told me that I had to find
another attorney to represent me in the case because he couldn't. He explained
it was because he was both a witness to Art's admission of forging my name to
the check and cashing it, and a witness to the contract. He could not be my
attorney and my witness at the same time. I told him that I understood and that
I would find another attorney to handle the case against Art.
After leaving Dennis's office I got to thinking this over. Dennis couldn't
represent me against Art because he was a witness. That made sense. But
remember the rigged trial in the Perrysburg court regarding my supposed
acceptance of hazardous waste? The Rossford prosecutor not only was the
prosecutor in the case but he was also his own and only witness. I wonder what
type of double standard that would qualify as?
In this last portion of the book I want to emphasize that I had never had
any problems with the IRS or any agency of the government beyond the local
crooks, so I found the "coincidence" of the IRS, the Ohio Bureau of
Employment and Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation auditing me at the same time
I went after Art anything but a coincidence. In fact, I'd put money on it that
this was done as political payback for what Art did for them. Before I take you
through my nightmare with the IRS, I’ll demonstrate what a set up this really
was. I’ll explain how and why I was turned over to the IRS and will demonstrate
just how unethical, corrupt, ruthless and unprincipled these bastards from the
IRS really are.
Before I do that though let me first get back to Art. Personally, I think
Art talked with one of his political connections and received some assurance
that they would protect him before he told Dennis that he wasn't going to pay
the balance of what he owed me. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had that attitude.
Logic states that Art would have tried something like that before he gave
himself additional time to pay the balance.
I can’t be sure exactly who Art talked to but it had to be someone in the
local political process with a lot of political clout and connections.
Remember, Art had already used his political connections once before when I
attempted to press charges against him for forging and cashing the check, so
this was nothing new for him. I'm sure Art knew exactly who to talk to and what
strings to pull. Keep in mind, they owed Art a lot for what he did for them in
the past, and I'm sure Art had no problem reminding them of that.
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