when's someone going to jump in here and say it's a republican conspiracY???

remember when hillary did that? it was awesome!!

re: the model of the Mercedes, I was just making a joke about Junior's side job (google '420')

What model Mercedes was it?

I'm thinking a new reality series here - "The Floods" - a kind-hearted Jersey City councilwoman and her neer-do-well son, just trying to get by and "accomplish the task for the people"

...you can only what favors were involved in granny and jethro getting their hands on some *other* criminal's Mercedes Benz... but maybe it's just the barter system, maybe it's really a Mercedes model 420 SL.....

So I'm trying to understand the thought process that goes into giving this news story its own thread instead of adding it to the long thread about Flood's arrest in the famed Benz, yet burying last week's story about Kabili Tayari and allegations of biased treatment in our tax-funded county prisons in the inflammatory "apology for slavery" thread.

I thought Democrats don't lie!

Flood's Mercedes has dubious past

Thursday, March 06, 2008
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A 2003 Mercedes Benz now owned by Jersey City Councilwoman Willie Flood, who is also the county register, apparently was owned by a construction company with a troubled past.

The city impounded Flood's two-door black Mercedes last month when it was found parked in front of a fire hydrant on Martin Luther King Drive with expired temporary tags, according to city officials. The car was being operated by Phillip Flood II, Willie Flood's 29-year-old son, who works as a data processor in the county register's office and recently resigned as his mother's council aide.

A check at the city impound yard on Feb. 15 turned up the car as registered to IDI Construction, a New York City outfit. By the time Phillip Flood II retrieved the car on Feb. 19, the registration was in his mother's name, city officials said.

The Floods failed to return several phone calls seeking an explanation as to why the car was still registered to IDI Construction, and how and when Willie Flood purchased the car.

According to court papers, IDI's principals, Ted Kohl of Manhattan and James Stumpf of Guttenberg, pleaded guilty in 2006 to bilking the now-bankrupt company out of $2.4 million.

The duo hired subcontractors to build the Asprey Limited luxury goods store in the emporium of Trump Tower at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, according to a 2005 New York Times article. When they were paid the money for the contractors, they simply "stole" it, a law enforcement official told The Times.

Kohl and Stumpf pleaded guilty to Class C and Class D felonies respectively, according to court documents. Kohl served time in jail. It wasn't his first brush with the law.

In 1995, Kohl was arrested and charged with cheating several major corporations out of more than $7 million.

He did this, according to a Times article, by padding the price of jobs - 20 percent in some cases. Then he'd have sub-contractors kick back the extra cash to a dummy company he created, the article indicated.

After this indictment, Kohl cooperated with an investigation into New York's office construction industry, paving the way for a reduced sentence that included five years probation beginning in 2001.

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There is a lot on the web about IDI Construction

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/nyregion/08scheme.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi ... 54/is_199709/ai_n20218583