Norton S. Karno in the News
Ivo of Kermartin
snip>
Even county officials are having a difficult time tracking down the
owner.
The law firm representing management is high profile attorney Norton S.
Karno.
His past includes being the main attorney for the Church of Scientology
and having hundreds of real estate investments around the country.
Karno is on vacation and was unavailable for response."
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8868212&nav=menu191_2_1
$1,000 a Day Fine Imposed for Mobile Home Park with Toxic Tap Water
News Channel 3
Residents of an Indio mobile home park continue to live with toxic tap
water.
Starting Tuesday, Riverside County is fining La Quinta Ridge Mobile Park
owners a $1,000 a day for health violations.
The water coming out of these taps is toxic. Perchlorates, often found
in rocket fuel, was found by county health officials coming from wells
behind the complex.
Residents now pick up their daily ration of bottled water supplied by
park management.
Resident Dutch Haling said, "It's frustrating when you find yourself
having to drive down to the clubhouse several times a week to get water
for basic needs. When you turn your faucet on, you think, well, I can't
drink it, I'll have to get the bottle out."
"Years ago, this well back there, surrounded by all the horses and all
the animals, has always been a problem because of where it is," adds
resident Patrick Custer.
Even county officials are having a difficult time tracking down the
owner.
The law firm representing management is high profile attorney Norton S.
Karno.
His past includes being the main attorney for the Church of Scientology
and having hundreds of real estate investments around the country.
Karno is on vacation and was unavailable for response.
Denys Arcuri with County Supervisor Roy Wilson's office said, "It's
certainly frustrating and I can only guess why we are headed down this
path. It seems to me the solution is there. It's very easy to take care
of. If there's a dispute over the fees to hook up, that can be dealt
with later."
Park management has the option of ditching the well and hooking up to
the city of Indio's water system. It would cost around $75,000. The city
even offered to let management pay it off later. There is no answer from
them yet.
To view the County's citation against the mobile home park, click here:
http://kesq.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/laquinta.pdf
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_S._Karno
Norton S. Karno
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norton Stanley Karno is best known as an attorney for the Church of
Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard in the 1960s and 1970s, and
whose name figures prominently in Scientology's history. [1] [2]
Karno is also well known as an active real estate investor. According to
an article in the Colorado newspaper Daily Camera:
"Karno or one of his corporations owns more than 500 pieces of real
estate nationwide, including seven parcels in Boulder County, Colorado."
[3]
Karno is associated with the California firm of Karno, Schwartz,
Friedman & Shafron [4] as well as Shafron & Kammer. [5]
snip>
Hubbard's will
The 1979 version of Hubbard's Last Will and Testament named Karno as
Executor:
... "I nominate and appoint NORTON S. KARNO as Executor of this
Will. Should NORTON S. KARNO be deceased or otherwise unable or
unwilling to act as Executor, then I nominate and appoint Michael M.
Smith as Executor of this Will." "I acknowledge that I have been
informed and am advised that a conflict of interest may exist as to
NORTON S. KARNO in his capacity as Personal Representative hereunder and
in his capacity as a general partner of a partnership in which I may
have an interest at my death. I understand that NORTON S. KARNO could
favour the partnership over the estate, and vice versa, which could
prejudice the rights of the other. In view of the foregoing, I hereby
waive any conflict of interest that may result in NORTON S. KARNO's
service in the aforementioned capacities."
Ref:
http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/documents/1979-12-15-1will.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19960101-re_/http://members.aol.com/nortnkarno/kfile.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/
snip>
The Many Wills of L. Ron Hubbard
These documents give the reader a rare peek inside the constantly
shifting power structure within the CoS. In the first Will, dated 1979,
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esnefru/deathoflrh/1979.html
Hubbard's lawyer Norton S. Karno, immortalized on the Friends of Norton
Karno pages, appears as Executor and Personal Representative, a position
which would have given him considerable power over the bulk of the
church's money.
In 1982, however, mere days after the corporate restructuring had taken
place, Hubbard drafted another Will,
http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/1982.html
and Karno was removed from his position as Executor, to be replaced by
Patrick Broeker, then amongst those closest to the old man. A codicil,
dated 1983,
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esnefru/deathoflrh/1983.html
includes a clause forbidding any autopsy, viewing or service, stating
instead that Hubbard's body is to cremated as soon as possible after his
death.
Broeker's moment in the sun comes to an end with the establishment of
the final Will of LRH, drafted the day before his death in January,
1986,
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esnefru/deathoflrh/1986.html
snip>
NINTH: I nominate and appoint NORMAN F. STARKEY Executor of this Will.
Should NORMAN F. STARKEY be deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to
act as Executor, a successor Executor shall be selected from the
following persons in the following priority:
1. Anne M. Broeker
2. David Miscavige
3. Terri G. Gamboa "
which handed control of the estate to Norm Starkey. His duties mainly
concerned with transfering the vast number of copyrights left in trust
by LRH to the Church of Spiritual Technology, the ultimate keeper of the
tech,"
Ivo of Kermartin
//
henri
<ivo@patron_saint_of_lawyers.arscc> wrote:
>snip>
>Even county officials are having a difficult time tracking down the
>owner.
>The law firm representing management is high profile attorney Norton S.
>Karno.
>His past includes being the main attorney for the Church of Scientology
>and having hundreds of real estate investments around the country.
>Karno is on vacation and was unavailable for response."
>http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8868212&nav=menu191_2_1
"Management" is Cory Sukert, his son-in-law.
http://kesq.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/laquinta.pdf
"These days, while continuing to dabble in real estate ventures across
the country, Karno is also involved in the operations of Cal-Am
Properties, which owns various properties across the West Coast, as
well as in Florida and Ohio. Karno's son-in-law Cory Sukert acts as
Cal-Am's president, but the company is run out of a suite on the
fourth floor of the same Encino office building that houses Karno's
law firm, and his name appears on at least one transaction related to
Cal-Am operations."
Abstract of Title
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:54:17 -0700, Ivo of Kermartin
><ivo@patron_saint_of_lawyers.arscc> wrote:
>
>>snip>
>>Even county officials are having a difficult time tracking down the
>>owner.
>
>>The law firm representing management is high profile attorney Norton S.
>>Karno.
>
>>His past includes being the main attorney for the Church of Scientology
>>and having hundreds of real estate investments around the country.
>
>>Karno is on vacation and was unavailable for response."
>
>>http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8868212&nav=menu191_2_1
>
>"Management" is Cory Sukert, his son-in-law.
>
>http://kesq.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/laquinta.pdf
>
>"These days, while continuing to dabble in real estate ventures across
>the country, Karno is also involved in the operations of Cal-Am
>Properties, which owns various properties across the West Coast, as
>well as in Florida and Ohio.
Interesting/
http://www.cal-am.com/
[Cal-Am]
"Cal-Am Homes" a subsidiary of "Cal-Am Properties"
http://buildwithpalmharbor.com/2008/01/
Cal-Am Homes - Cory Sukert
Cal-Am has been servicing the housing and recreational needs of adults
since 1988 as owner/operators of manufactured housing communities"
Cal-Am [PR] Story:
http://www.cal-am.com/subpages/cal_am_story.asp
>Karno's son-in-law Cory Sukert acts as
>Cal-Am's president, but the company is run out of a suite on the
>fourth floor of the same Encino office building that houses Karno's
>law firm, and his name appears on at least one transaction related to
>Cal-Am operations."
>
>http://digl-watch.info/people.shtml#_karno_norton
California regional sales office address/Corporate?
http://www.montesacommunity.org/calam_corporate.htm
Cal-Am Corporate
385 Clinton Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-432-9800 • Fax: 714-432-9801
Cal-Am owner - Cory Sukert - csu...@cal-am.com
Regional Manager - Ray Herman (480) 854-1778 ext. 119"
States location Map: (Cal-Am)
http://www.cal-am.com/subpages/cal_am_homes.asp
For California:
snip>
California Regional Sales Center
385 Clinton Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
ph: 714.656.7760 • fx: 714.432.9801
http://www.cal-am.com/contactus.asp
Cal-Am Corporate
385 Clinton Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-432-9800 • Fax: 714-432-9801"
Same "Costa Mesa" not Encino address for Corporate and Regional. I don't
get it :(
http://support.yardi.com/clientProfile.asp?id=14
Cal-Am Properties
Cal-Am Properties Relies on Yardi Systems to Streamline Operations
Cal-Am Properties, Inc. is one of the largest privately held
owner-operators of manufactured housing communities, five-star RV
resorts, and apartment management in the United States. **Based in Costa
Mesa, California**, the company has five remote offices and properties
located in Arizona, California, Florida, Minnesota, and several other
states. As an owner-operator, Cal-Am relies on Yardi Voyager™ to manage
its portfolio and uses Citrix to process information from all offices to
one centralized database. The system's flexibility and real-time
processing capability has provided Cal-Am with increased productivity
and efficiency."
snip>
This has saved both time and significant dollars," says Cory Sukert,
President of Cal-Am Properties."
That's all I found on Cory after blitzing through my search engine
gauntlet other than community related trivia such as 'minutes' of a
computer club where Cory gavels for new jet-printers to throw out the
old for the sake of 'the club' .... <yawning>. Not worth printing, at
least here.
Norton S. Karno according to J. Swift over at OCMB has or had a $30
million +/- beach mansion spread on "Broad Beach" in California where
celebrity mega-money neighbors such as Eddy Van Halen, Robert Deniro,
Danny Devito, and Robert Redford live as well. So, I'll assume by
'dollar stat' deduction alone with age difference calibration that Cory
Sukert; Cal-Am properties head being Norton S. Karno's son-in-law; that
he does work out of Karno's Encino office with Norton as the deigning $$
monarch overseeing 'things' peering over junior's shoulder with sagely
advice ... Not that junior isn't necessarily rich from his own efforts.
But, for anyone to live on Broad Beach, as the most prime beachfront
real estate in Los Angeles/Malibu, with 4 bedroom homes 'starting' at 15
million I suspect Cory's net worth isn't anywhere near his dear
father-in-laws. Yes, I've walked that beach via legal public easements
for many years on occasion. No, I don't live there. Wish I did, but life
doesn't have that 'residence' street address in store for me. If it did,
I would already be living there.
Photo:
Norton S. Karno's Broad Beach California Home, thanks to J. Swift (beard
pulling swami) at OCMB:
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/scienowriter/1Karno.jpg
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?p=340486&sid=f2de35a806286b67e0bddba837989f2e
Text:
Norton Karno's last known address was:
31360 Broad Beach Road
Malibu, California
Broad Beach is in the "Platinum Triangle" of Malibu, an area famous for
being some of the most expensive real estate on the prison planet of
Teegeeack. The Xemutian Satellite Organization did a flyby in 2007. See
the green arrow."
Abstract of Title
//
Maureen Drueck
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/
> snip>
> The Many Wills of L. Ron Hubbard
>
> These documents give the reader a rare peek inside the constantly
>
> Hubbard's lawyer Norton S. Karno, immortalized on the Friends of Norton
> Karno pages, appears as Executor and Personal Representative, a position
> which would have given him considerable power over the bulk of the
> church's money.
>
> In 1982, however, mere days after the corporate restructuring had taken
>
> and Karno was removed from his position as Executor, to be replaced by
> Patrick Broeker, then amongst those closest to the old man. A codicil,
>
> includes a clause forbidding any autopsy, viewing or service, stating
> instead that Hubbard's body is to cremated as soon as possible after his
> death.
>
> Broeker's moment in the sun comes to an end with the establishment of
> the final Will of LRH, drafted the day before his death in January,
>
> snip>
> NINTH: I nominate and appoint NORMAN F. STARKEY Executor of this Will.
> Should NORMAN F. STARKEY be deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to
> act as Executor, a successor Executor shall be selected from the
> following persons in the following priority:
>
> 1. Anne M. Broeker
> 2. David Miscavige
> 3. Terri G. Gamboa "
>
> which handed control of the estate to Norm Starkey. His duties mainly
> concerned with transfering the vast number of copyrights left in trust
> by LRH to the Church of Spiritual Technology, the ultimate keeper of the
> tech,"
>
> Ivo of Kermartin
>
> //
Scientology and its upper investors of the 'purity comte in honest
govt. pillage and pollute the land. Here is a 2002 rendition of "Karno
and the Prairie Dogs"
http://web.dailycamera.com/news/talbott/2002/0205lclin.html
For years, Toby Norback enjoyed the trip past South Boulder Road and
120th Street. On his way to or from work, he'd cast a warm glance
toward the prairie dogs.
About 300 animals inhabited the two-acre lot at the southwest corner
of the intersection, Norback figures. One day last month, most of them
were gone. A man on a John Deere bulldozer had plowed the Lafayette
colony into oblivion. Norback found the name of the landowner: Hunter
Colorado Associates Ltd. in Encino, Calif. He urged friends and
neighbors to send notes of disapproval.
(Hunter Colorado Associates belongs to Norton S. Karno, a California
lawyer who served as a personal tax attorney for L. Ron Hubbard and
the "church" of Scientology. Karno was an executor of Hubbard's will.
Karno or one of his corporations owns more than 500 pieces of real
estate nationwide, including seven parcels in Boulder County.)
Norback isn't focused on (and doesn't know about) the Scientology
connection. He's thinking about the animals. On Monday, he surveyed
the place where, he figures, 95 percent of the prairie dogs were
killed. As he spoke, four or five prairie dogs bobbed in and out of
holes at the west side of the property. They are among the few
survivors.
To Norback, the bulldozing constituted animal cruelty. "I understand
that prairie dogs will be killed by humans. We need to do this
humanely."
==
The Manufactured Home Communities had problems several years back,
when one of the middle management positions of each community were
making it impossible for owners to sell. They basically were
unregulated places where the rates were raised higher and higher, and
people were stuck, unable to sell. Several states enacted laws to
place ceilings on rent. Same kind of MMO with Allstate and the
Scientology manual. More money for the upper investors, the clains
reps were playing attorney. Unregulated and scammish sales, money goes
up into company.. Pollution, extinction and creation of working poor
are the beneficiaries of this middle-managed greed.
Maureen
Tom Klemesrud
We've seen Riverside County California frame Keith Henson at the behest
of scientology lawyers. It's good to see the County draws the line when
it comes to poisoning people, to save money.
Maureen Drueck
The first sign of domestic abuse is the abuse of animals.
The $cientology house is dysfunctional.
Maureen
Maureen Drueck
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281272,00.html
Marine Families Want $4B For Decades of Toxic Tap Water
ATLANTA — Thousands of Marines and their families went to serve
their country at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune.
Instead, many wound up fighting it, blaming the government for failing
to protect them from an enemy that invaded their lives in a most
intimate way: through the water that quenched their thirst, cooked
their food and filled their bathtubs every day.
(snip)
Health officials and lawmakers complain that the Defense Department
has delayed disclosure of important documents during investigations
into the health impact of water contaminated by a dry cleaner adjacent
to Camp Lejeune and by the base's past industrial activities.
"We wouldn't be investigating this disgraceful situation if (the
Department of Defense) had put half as much effort into cleaning up
the water as it has into stonewalling those who drank it," said Rep.
John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee. A subcommittee expects to conduct an oversight hearing
Tuesday, the first in a broader review by Democrats investigating the
Pentagon's environmental record.
====
And here is the same way that $cn would pollute the water and get
attorney generals like that in Utah to sell the detox for cleanup.
But Norton Karno, is he helping spawn these ordeals?
To think that Hubbard was a civil engineer, to see that the toxic
agents are found before $cientology sells the detox. Well maybe they
are catching on how this little scam works.
Maureen
Maureen Drueck
<ivo@patron_saint_of_lawyers.arscc> wrote:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/
> snip>
> The Many Wills of L. Ron Hubbard
>
> These documents give the reader a rare peek inside the constantly
>
> Hubbard's lawyer Norton S. Karno, immortalized on the Friends of Norton
> Karno pages, appears as Executor and Personal Representative, a position
> which would have given him considerable power over the bulk of the
> church's money.
>
> In 1982, however, mere days after the corporate restructuring had taken
>
> and Karno was removed from his position as Executor, to be replaced by
> Patrick Broeker, then amongst those closest to the old man. A codicil,
>
> includes a clause forbidding any autopsy, viewing or service, stating
> instead that Hubbard's body is to cremated as soon as possible after his
> death.
>
> Broeker's moment in the sun comes to an end with the establishment of
> the final Will of LRH, drafted the day before his death in January,
>
> snip>
> NINTH: I nominate and appoint NORMAN F. STARKEY Executor of this Will.
> Should NORMAN F. STARKEY be deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to
> act as Executor, a successor Executor shall be selected from the
> following persons in the following priority:
>
> 1. Anne M. Broeker
> 2. David Miscavige
> 3. Terri G. Gamboa "
>
> which handed control of the estate to Norm Starkey. His duties mainly
> concerned with transfering the vast number of copyrights left in trust
> by LRH to the Church of Spiritual Technology, the ultimate keeper of the
> tech,"
>
> Ivo of Kermartin
>
> //
Lets get help for this problem....
http://www.mold-help.org/content/view/235/
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oh dang!
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http://www.sgb-law.com/practice_areas.php?title=Toxic+Torts+%26+Environmental+Law
where's Robert Amidon?
Calling all ambulance chasers....
Maureen Drueck
Here's an idea of how they are run, like most of the entities that
find the unregulated middleman
http://www.mhoai.org/News/ThisBud.html:
I was told up front by my neighbors in the park that they [Colonial
Estates management] would never let me sell," Boswell said. "I had
qualified buyers who wanted to buy my mobile home, and not one was
approved. So I filed suit. Then they finally told me I could sell, buy
only to one of their preferred buyers and with the stipulations that I
drop the lawsuit and give them a kickback."
The manager of the mobile home park who allegedly asked for the
kickback is gone, but her departure didn't help Boswell. He moved out
of the park but left the trailer behind, continuing to pay for his
lease and maintenance. Refusing to bow to the pressure of Colonial
Estates management, which threatened to take the trailer because they
said it was abandoned, Boswell finally junked his trailer for $500
($6,500 less than he'd been offered by several buyers) and had it
hauled away.
Depositions in the case were taken only recently, so it could be
months before the case of Boswell vs Bud gets to court. But one day
out of the blue, Boswell decided to contact the Blue Island Sun
Newspaper about his problem and the plight of other mobile home
owners. The story was intriguing, so I did some checking into the
mobile home industry, which in some ways is like a series of Third
World dictatorships right in our own backyards. This is what I
learned.
Though there is very little on the books protecting mobile home
owners, legislation has been continuously reintroduced for at least a
decade. Most recently, state senator Christine Radogno of LaGrange
introduced Senate Bill 70, which would have created an ombudsman to
settle disputes between tenants and park owners. On March 23 of 1999,
SB 70 passed the Senate by a total of 57-2.
After the bill sailed through the Senate, it should have had no
problem humming through the House, right? Guess again.
With Zeman and the powerful IMHA waiting to bushwhack it in the House
of Representatives, the legislation was beaten to death before it even
reached the floor. In fact, during a subcommittee hearing of the House
Executive Committee, Zeman himself testified that the legislation was
unnecessary because there were so few problems between tenants and
owners. He reportedly also told representatives that disputes are
settled within the mobile home parks by the mobile home park owners
and tenants.
....
Maureen
Maureen Drueck
Link
http://www.mhoai.org/News/ThisBud.html
Manufactured home communities
now going as "Equity Lifestyle Properties"
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wWr-yU0apI4J:freeadvice.brand.edgar-online.com/People.aspx%3Fcik%3DELS+mhc+norton+karno&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us&client=firefox
>
> I was told up front by my neighbors in the park that they [Colonial
> Estates management] would never let me sell," Boswell said. "I had
> qualified buyers who wanted to buy my mobile home, and not one was
> approved. So I filed suit. Then they finally told me I could sell, buy
> only to one of their preferred buyers and with the stipulations that I
> drop the lawsuit and give them a kickback."
>
> The manager of the mobile home park who allegedly asked for the
> kickback is gone, but her departure didn't help Boswell. He moved out
> of the park ...
>
> read more »
Out_Of_The_Dark
<ivo@patron_saint_of_lawyers.arscc> wrote:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/
> snip>
> The Many Wills of L. Ron Hubbard
>
> These documents give the reader a rare peek inside the constantly
>
> Hubbard's lawyer Norton S. Karno, immortalized on the Friends of Norton
> Karno pages, appears as Executor and Personal Representative, a position
> which would have given him considerable power over the bulk of the
> church's money.
>
> In 1982, however, mere days after the corporate restructuring had taken
>
> and Karno was removed from his position as Executor, to be replaced by
> Patrick Broeker, then amongst those closest to the old man. A codicil,
>
> includes a clause forbidding any autopsy, viewing or service, stating
> instead that Hubbard's body is to cremated as soon as possible after his
> death.
>
> Broeker's moment in the sun comes to an end with the establishment of
> the final Will of LRH, drafted the day before his death in January,
>
> snip>
> NINTH: I nominate and appoint NORMAN F. STARKEY Executor of this Will.
> Should NORMAN F. STARKEY be deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to
> act as Executor, a successor Executor shall be selected from the
> following persons in the following priority:
>
> 1. Anne M. Broeker
> 2. David Miscavige
> 3. Terri G. Gamboa "
>
> which handed control of the estate to Norm Starkey. His duties mainly
> concerned with transfering the vast number of copyrights left in trust
> by LRH to the Church of Spiritual Technology, the ultimate keeper of the
> tech,"
>
> Ivo of Kermartin
>
> //
:) To top it off, he's flip-flopper Jonathon Barbera's grandfather's
landlord in AZ.
http://tinyurl.com/6rznzq
Small world, heh?
Maureen Drueck
Like the mobile holocaust isn't it?
Out_Of_The_Dark
>
> - Show quoted text -
hahaha!