Go Brooklyn. A jury in that fair borough has found Emmanuel “Toto” Constant guilty of mortgage fraud and grand larceny. Emmanuel Constant is the former founder and leader of FRAPH, the Haitian paramilitary group that in the early 90’s systematically tortured and murdered thousands of supporters of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Gang rapes and mutilation by ax were FRAPH specialties. The majority of victims lived in Haiti’s slums. Aristide, a Catholic priest enamored of liberation theology, was prone to totalitarian temptation. Some say he dabbled in drug traffic. Still, he was democratically elected by a desperately poor populace.
Try telling that to the CIA.
During the Clinton years Toto Constant got CIA jack. When Aristide returned to power (briefly) Toto snuck out the back. Entering the USA through Puerto Rico on a tourist visa. When Toto’s stateside presence was discovered it was kinda embarrassing for the Clinton admin. Threats of deportation were made. Supposedly Toto beat that rap by offering to reveal the details of his CIA deal on TV. Whatever. The Bloody One settled down in a lovely home on a quiet street in Queens. Though his residence in the USA remained legally dicey neither Clinton nor Bush deported him.
Eventually Toto became a licensed Realtor and mortgage broker. (In New York State having a rep for paramilitary excess doesn’t disqualify a person from becoming a real estate pro.) By the beginning of the new millennium Toto’s mortgage fraud career was flourishing. He was working with several overlapping groups of organized white collar criminals based in New Jersey and New York — zeroing in on low-income and/or Caribbean immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. Toto also flipped out on Long Island, a regional hot spot of the national mortgage biz. Constant & crew employed all the tricks the FBI has been hollering about for years. Straw buyers, collusive bank officers, phony appraisers, forged docs, invisible rehabs, etc. One player bragged that their fraudulent appraisals had inflated the values of an entire down-at-the-heels neighborhood. Turning it into a pair of Manolo Blahniks. On paper.
Some of the biggest names in the mortgage game went for paper cranked out by Toto and his twisted business associates. One prime example: EMC Mortgage, son of Bear Stearns.
You can read all about Bloody Toto in Mortgage Fraud Land at Blogger News Network or NowPublic. Detailed trial coverage can be found at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Incidentally, Toto was warned about intimidating witnesses. He’d been making creepy phone calls. You can take the boy out of FRAPH but –
Carola Von Hoffmannstahl-Solomonoff
Mondo QT
“Se bon ki ra”
Good is rare
Haitian proverb
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Michael Hampton
Jul 27, 2008
This is the sort of illegal immigrant you should worry about.
Bob
Jul 28, 2008
How about this? That sort of illegal immigrant should be worried about being here.
Now that might change things.
Remember when we had public hangings and road gangs and hard labor? Aaaaaaahhhhhh, the good old days.
“For some it’s grief,
For others relief,
But it’s the end
For Bonnie and Clyde.”
Bob
Jul 28, 2008
Got that wrong.
“To few it’ll be grief,
To the law a relief,
But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.”
Historical accuracy is important.
Carola Von H.
Jul 28, 2008
Thanks for the great bit of musical Americana! A fave of mine in the true crime genre is The Ballad of Jesse James. “Jesse had a wife/that mourned for his life/his children they were brave/but the dirty little coward/who shot Mister Howard/has laid poor Jesse in his grave.”
Carola Von H.
Jul 28, 2008
Oops. Historical accuracy IS important. I just remembered that the Bonnie and Clyde piece isn’t a song but a poem. Written by Bonnie herself…
Shaen-Earnest
Jul 30, 2008
Dear `Oh’ Bloody hell`.
Federal Reserve Bank is playing “Hop Scotch” with our brains. Get it right, it is all a play of cold hard cash and we are the pawns. The end result is a precognitive playhouse of dreams the media networks pump down into our mental collective psyche’s. It is simple, The change is here and we all have to stand together in a grassy forest field of hope and salvation and reach to the skies of the federal reserve bank and this new nation of just order and be saved, cause they are all higher and knowing then us all. Metaphorically speaking, we are fucked clinging to the old economic life style we are conditioned to, thus folly our path servants! Ranting anyone? Insanity to live inside their box, lead to believe sanity to obey and abide to the mass media. In reality our children are not our own and neither is anything else, but we are free to believe in the machine and the machine is mom and dad, so we are fine. Do you want to take the “Blue Pill”. or “The Red Pill Neo?”
I support Federal Martial Law, The reinstitution of a nation and The relearning of a people for a greater nation under God we trust, Amen!
annika
Sep 30, 2008
Hi,Oops.Historical accuracy IS important.some of the biggest names in the mortgage game went for paper cranked out by Toto and his twisted business associates.
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annika