Anatomy of a Murder: How Drs. Toby Cosgrove and Brian Donley Killed LH in Pursuit of NonProfit Greed

[Brian Essi]

Below is a short 3,200 word anatomy of the Mater Agreement that was brought about by the powerful and greedy "nonprofit" giant--CCF, its corrupt and greedy stooges and "trustees" at the "nonprofit" LHA , our corrupt Mayor, corrupt and unwitting Council President and others on Council in a series of backroom dealings designed to hide a crime from the public. This "deal" is a disaster for Lakewood and its underserved. CCF has "bribed". bullied and hoodwinked our weak leaders in a textbook strategy of divide and conquer. This amounts to nothing short of a "Murder", dismemberment and hiding of the remains of Lakewood Hospital--truly the Crime of the Century for Lakewood.

The kingpins in this are CCF's No. 1 & 2 "Doctors of Death"---Dr. Toby Cosgrove, heart surgeon, cut out the hospital's heart in 2008-2010 when plans to rebuild the hospital were scrapped and trauma and other services were transferred to Fairview in exchange for bogus and empty promises. Brian Donley, an orthopedic surgeon, has been lopping off body parts ever since.

The sinister Master Agreement achieves what they hope to be a burial of the remains of the patient.

This has all been done in the name of a nonprofit "charity"--CCF.

This is an example of "Nonprofit Greed" at its worse.



Introduction

The transactions contemplated by the Master Agreement amount to a sale of the Hospital to CCF and a closing of the Hospital in a transaction in which CCF pays substantially less than fair consideration for the lion’s share of the professional valuation conducted by Subsidium, the recent sale of St. John’s Hospital and even the net asset book value of LHA’s public accountants’ financial statement.

The new foundation to be created will only receive approximately $16.5 NPV million from LHA’s $120M valuation. CCF’s commitment to add money to that foundation for 16 years commencing in June 2018 has a $3.9M NPV, but CCF essentially controls the amounts it contributes as well as continuing its significant control over the board of the new foundation which is essentially a continuation of the LHA board it now controls.

The City of Lakewood will only receive approximately $23M in exchange for rights, property and assets professionally valued at more than $120M. Among the assets it receives will be a gutted building that cannot be used for its intended and largely singular purpose.

Since CCF receives what is leftover via a dissolution distribution, it appears that CCF will receive the $80.5M balance of LHA’s asset value ($120M less $16.5M less $23M). The approximate cash amount to be paid by CCF pursuant to the Master Agreement for this $80.5M value is estimated to be approximately $10.7M ($8M NPV of Columbia Road property and estimated $2.7M for the FHC Site property).

From LHA’s cash and investments of approximately $50M, under the Master Agreement, the City will receive only $6.2M NPV and CCF will receive the benefit of approximately $27M before undetermined and undisclosed wind down costs.

CCF is essentially gifted cleared land for its new Family Health Center (FHC)—LHA will expend over $6.1M (public money) concerning that property and the City will receive only an estimated $2.7M for the FHC Site—a $3.4M net expenditure of Lakewood public money for the benefit of CCF and a transfer of the property to CCF.

CCF will also receive the value of all (1) Hospital equipment (MRI, Cath lab etc.), fixtures, and personal property; (2) all hospital bed licenses; (3) a non-compete/restrictive covenant in its favor all without any stated compensation or payment to LHA and/or the City other than the undertaking of the alleged “risk” that CCF may need to cover a “shortfall” of wind down expenses. Only a few of the wind down expenses have dollar amounts attached to them in the Master Agreement, and, as noted above and in my detailed memo entitled “Analysis of Lakewood Hospital Master Agreement, CCF will have approximately $27.3M of LHA cash (plus the ongoing cash flow and revenues of LHA from ongoing operations) available to CCF or for its benefit.

Other than the limited disclosure of amounts set forth in the Master Agreement itself and the Subsidium valuation of Lakewood Hospital, there has been no public disclosure or record of (1) the values placed upon specific property and items being distributed or transferred to CCF under the dissolution distribution, or (2) the estimated wind down expenses that CCF is alleged to be at “risk” of paying in exchange for substantial property cash and rights distributed under the dissolution distribution. Subsidium also estimated a $38M NPV of contribution margin benefit to CCF from the admissions at Lakewood which are likely to move to CCF’s facilities as a result of closing Lakewood Hospital. Consequently, it appears that there is no evidence or circumstance of any financial risk to CCF as a result of winding down and closing Lakewood Hospital---this would mean that CCF is paying nothing for substantial and valuable property, licenses and non-compete rights. Also, if wind down expenses are less than $27M, CCF will benefit of the leftover LHA cash per the dissolution distribution.

The citizens of Lakewood, including the underserved, will be irreparably harmed if CCF is allowed to obtain LHA’s charitable assets that could be worth as much as $70M without proper, reasonable and fair compensation to the City and/or LHA.

Detailed Analysis


Distributions of LHA’s Cash. Here’s a summary of how The Master Agreement divides up LHA’s $50M in cash and who benefits from the money:
1. $2.5M in Insurance premium paid to CCF to protect CCF employees and LHA Trustees
2. $2.5 M paid to CCF to help it build parking lot owned by CCF.
3. $3.6 M estimated Demolition of buildings of FHC.
4. $6.2 M NPV Demolition payments to City.
5. $16.5 M NPV of payments to New Foundation-- amount can be reduced by LHA losses.
6. $18.7 M to CCF likely dissolution distribution.

CCF receives the benefit of $27.3 M or 54.6% of all liquid funds.
City receives $6.2 M.


What the City Receives Under the Master Agreement.
The City will receive total cash and property valued at than $23M in exchange for its rights under the 1996 Lease:
1. $ 8,035,820 NPV for Columbia Road property.
2 $6,225,400 NPV as demolition payment toward tear down of Hospital.
3. $ 2.7 M estimate for FHC Site land sold to CCF.
5. $ 5.7 M estimate for land ultimately sold to private developer.
6. The Curtis Block building and residential homes near the hospital. (No value in record)

It should be noted that the City may receive a maximum of $2,887,500 in rent instalments beginning March 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2018, but this rent is in exchange for CCF’s continued occupancy, use and control of the Hospital through at least June, 2018. It is not a payment for City’s equity in LHA assets.

Total For Hospital: $22.6M.

I. Lakewood Hospital and LHA Have A Fair Market Value of Over $120M:
1. Subsidium—an expert hired by LHA and Mayor Summers---placed an average Fair Market Value of $71 M on Lakewood Hospital. See Subsidium Exhibit B attached
2. In the past two months University Hospitals paid $45 M for a ½ interest in St. John’s hospital which has less bed licenses than Lakewood which would put a valuation on Lakewood at approximately $90 M.
3. Liquid assets available to support Lakewood Hospital as of 9/30/2015 (the latest publically available LHA financial statement) totaled $84.2 million----$50.7 M in LHA and $33.5 M in Lakewood Hospital Foundation (LHF). [See Exhibit C—LHA 9/30/15 Financial Statements] LHF is a private charity that supports Lakewood Hospital and whose assets are available to support any operator of the hospital. See 9/3015 LHA financial statement attached as Exhibit C.
4. The Subsidium valuation did not include certain related real estate holdings of LHA that have a value in excess of $10 M.
5. Book Value per LHA 9/30/15 financial statements—LHA had “Total Net Assets” of $126.452 M. This amount included the FMV of LHF assets ($37.951 M) and FMV of LHA investments ($50.724 M) and the net book value of all other LHA assets and liabilities ($42.190). Hence the net book value of LHA excluding LHF assets was $92.914 M.

II. The City is Entitled to Receive All of LHA’s Net Assets.
1. Paragraph Six of LHA’s Articles of Incorporation provides: “Upon the dissolution of the [LHA], all of the [LHA’s] property of every nature and description shall, after making provision for discharge of all liabilities and obligations of [LHA], be paid over and transferred to the City of Lakewood, Ohio for public purposes which shall also serve one or more of the purposes of the [LHA] or to another nonprofit charitable organization… which is organized for the purpose of operating Lakewood Hospital..”
2. If the Lease is terminated, LHA “shall transfer all of its then assets to the City or to another nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of operating the Hospital.” [1996 Lease Section 12.2] The Lease also requires LHA to surrender all leased property and other assets to the City “in as good condition as prevailed at the time” LHA took possession. [1996 Lease Section 14.1] Note: the Master Agreement attempts to return the hospital buildings to the City in an unusable condition due to failure to perform $90 M of maintenance and encumbered by a restrictive covenant.
3. Per the terms or the 1996 Lease and its Articles on Incorporation all LHA Trustees owe their fiduciary duties to the residents of Lakewood, including the underserved, not CCF.
4. The public record makes it clear that CCF and LHA have breached their agreements and that both want to be released from their breaches and further obligations under the Lease and DA. At the same time, neither CCF nor LHA will agree to comply with the terms of the Articles of Incorporation and the Lease and net return all money and property to the City of Lakewood.

III. The Bid Solicitation/Evaluation Process for Lakewood Hospital Was Improper.
There are several indicia of irregularities in the bid solicitation and evaluation process related to the assets of Lakewood Hospital. These indicia are as follows:
1. The failure of the City of Lakewood to organize and conduct an open and public bid process for the assets of Lakewood Hospital that it owns via a charitable trust (LHA) (“the public assets”).
2. The fact that the bid process for the public assets was privately organized by the incumbent manager/lessee CCF/LHA of the public assets, either directly or through its control and influence over LHA’s Board by a third-party consulting firm (Subsidium). There is no evidence that the City of Lakewood retained Subsidium; to the contrary CCF or the LHA retained Subsidium. In fact, the bid process was unknown to the majority of the members of the City Council or the public at largely until nearly a year after it was completed.
3. The private bid process for the public assets resulted in CCF (the incumbent) “scoring” as the best proposal even though it was not. The “winning” bid results in the loss of Lakewood Hospital in violation of the charitable purpose of LHA while CCF is the sole member of LHA.
4. The outcome of the private bid process is consistent with CCF’s secret “decanting” plan to shift operations and assets of Lakewood Hospital to CCF’s other wholly-owned facilities.
5. The other parties that submitted proposals to Subsidium during the bid process submitted proposals that related to the continuance of Lakewood Hospital assets and operations. It may not have been disclosed to them that they could submit bids for the closing of the Hospital and the liquidation of the public assets. Such omission would be consistent with the other practices conducted by CCF with respect to the decanting plan.
6. Had the other bidding parties known that they could submit closure bids, they could have done so in the alternative.
7. As sophisticated parties, the other bidding parties likely understood that CCF was the incumbent lessee until 2026 and that any successful bid would be contingent upon the incumbent lessee withdrawing from the lease. Until that event of withdrawal, the other bidding parties likely understood that they were at risk for liability for tortious interference with business relationships if they made direct solicitations to the City of Lakewood for the operation (or closure) of Lakewood Hospital.
8. The Mayor of Lakewood acting in his dual capacity as Mayor and ex officio board member of the LHA, once the deal with the Clinic has been announced, seeks clarification from one of the losing bidders (Metro) to clarify that they have withdrawn their bid.
10. At least one subsequent proposal from a legitimate third-party developer and operator of acute care hospitals (Surgical Development Partners) has been ignored by the City and LHA, despite its $1 M higher offer for the LHA’s Columbia Road (Westlake) facility.
11. Consequently, it appears that CCF, LHA and perhaps elected Lakewood city officials (the ex officio members of the board of LHA) may have knowingly implemented a “sham” bidding process with a predetermined outcome consistent with the goals of CCF’s covert decanting plan.

IV. The Master Agreement Violates the Public Trust By Converting Public Money and Assets to Private Control and Use.
The economics the of Master Agreement (MA) made public December 10, 2015, can be best understood and explained by breaking the agreement down into 5 separate transactions.

1. West Side of Belle i.e. the FHC Site.
a. CCF is essentially gifted cleared land for its new Family Health Center (FHC)—LHA will expend over $6.1M the City will receive only $2.7M for this site.
b. LHA is responsible to pay for “demolition, abatement and relocation expenses related to” the Lakewood West MOB and the parking garage [MA Section3.3 (b)].
c. Estimated demolition expenses to be borne by LHA are $3.6M.
d. In addition to the demolition costs, LHA is obligating itself to pay the abatement and relocation expenses required to terminate leases and move tenants from the existing MOB.
e. When CCF takes title to the FHC Site (5 days after the City obtains a “Lot Split Approval” from the County [Section 1 FHC Site Sale Agreement (FHC-SSA)—Exhibit G to MA]), CCF will also receive security deposits and rent from tenants in the building [FHC-SSA Section 16] even though LHA will pay for rent abatement and relocations of those tenants.
f. CCF will pay the fair market value of the Land only (not the building) as determined by an appraiser to be chosen by the City and CCF [MA Section 5.1].
g. CCF is also paid $ 2.5M from LHA money to fund construction of CFF’s parking structure on the FHC Site. [MA Section 2.2(a)]. On December 14, 2015, Councilman David Andersen said the city estimates the FMV of the land to be $1M per acre i.e. $2.7M for the FHC site.

2. Curtis-Block Building and Residential Properties Returned to City.
The transfer of these properties (the least valuable of LHA’s holdings) is the only part of the Master Agreement that complies with the terms of the original Lease and LHA Articles of Incorporation. The Master Agreement does place a value on these properties and the City has failed to produce any public records in response to my records requests on this subject.

3. Sale of Columbia Road-NVP $8M-For Building worth $11-$13M
The $8.2M sales price of this property is actually worth only $ 8,035,820 NVP using 5% discount rate due to delayed payments.
a. Payments are: $6.8M January 21, 2016 and $1.4 M June 2018.
b. NPV of LOI for Columbia was $8.2M. So the Master Agreement is $164,180 less than LOI.
c. This makes the sale of this property about $ 1M less than the Surgical Development Partners recent cash offer of $ 9M.
d. Neither the City nor LHA ever hired a broker or advertised this property for sale.
e. This transaction loosely follows the original Lease termination terms because the City will receive the proceeds from this sale, except that there has been no public bidding or advertising of the property and the property is being sold under market.

4. Hospital Site Property (East Side of Belle).
In this transaction CCF is given all “all of LHA’s property of every nature and description and all personal property, equipment and fixtures at the Hospital” that is leftover after the other transactions contemplated by the agreement. [Section 3.3(d)] CCF is also given a restrictive covenant placed on the hospital site property so that essentially no hospital or healthcare business can ever be conducted at that site. [Section 5.3] Since there is no accounting provision in the contract, the City and the public may never know the exact amount of money CCF will receive from the Hospital public assets.
In exchange for the Hospital that has been valued at $120 million, the City receives:
a. Demolition payment made to City using LHA funds is worth $ 6,225,400 NPV [MA Section 6.2 and 3.3(c)]—payments are as follows: $500K paid 1/21/2016 and $6.5M June/2018.
b. The Hospital Site with building after all equipment, fixtures and personal property are removed by CCF. The restrictive covenant impairs the value of the land and building. Using Councilman Andersen’s statement concerning $1M per acre, this property may be worth an estimated $5.7M but that amount must be discounted since the City will not have possession of it until June, 2018, or later.
c. Up to a maximum $2,887,500 in rent--$9M less than the remaining payments under the Lease.
d. The Hospital building is returned to the City (but not until June, 2018 or later) after removal of all personal property, equipment and fixtures.
Note: that Section 3.3(b) and various other sections of the Master Agreement reference CCF undertaking “risk” as the value in exchange for “shortfall in LHA assets”---In reality CCF has no “risk”:
i. Per LHA’s latest public financial statement (9/30/15) LHA’s total current assets (cash, accounts receivable, investments etc.,) exceeded all liabilities (both current and long-term) by over $54M.
ii. Also per Subsidium’s analysis summarized on page 70 of its report the NPV of expected contribution margin to CCF from the admissions at Lakewood moving to CCF’s is $38M for just the first 3 years. See Exhibit D attached.
Therefore, it is clear that CCF has no “risk”—only benefits. CCF is essentially “buying” and closing a hospital, but it will pay nothing. The City will receive less than $ 9M and a gutted hospital building that can’t be used for its intended purpose or healthcare.

5. LHA/CCF/City New Foundation— The New Foundation is worth only $16,564,293 at an 8% discount rate due to delayed funding schedule through. The discount rate of 8% is reasonable in relation to CCF’s portfolio management rates of return.
Payments Schedule to fund new Foundation [MA Sections 6.1(a) and 2.1 (a)] are as follows:
$200K 3/1/2016
$7.6M June 2018
$4.3M June 2020
$4.1M June 2022
$4.1M June 2024
$ 4.1M June 2026

LHA Trustees/CCF will continue to have significant control over the new foundation. Per the Master Agreement, LHA and the City will name the initial board and develop the yet undefined rule of governance. CCF will have the right to two voting members and board will have 5 to 21 members. The LHA Trustees currently including the 4 CCF employee/trustees, the 2 others who are also CCF trustees). Under the MA Section 9.4, LHA Trustees and CCF employees are also indemnified, defended and insured with a $2.5 million insurance policy premium paid by LHA to CCF for past and future conduct.

Exhibit B SubsidiumRecentHospital Sales.pdf

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Exhibit C Lakewood Hospital Association unaudited FS - September 2015.pdf

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Exhibit D--Subsidium 38M NPV Benefit to CCF.pdf

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[Bill Call]

A brilliant piece of legal reasoning. The new master agreement is just a bad real estate deal.

Sham bidding process, conflicts of interest, failure of fiduciary duty and more. Will the judges in this case have the courage to challenge this deal?

[Brian Essi]

Bill,

This case is and always been about simple leadership, simple math and valuations.

1. There can be no real change without accountability--and there can be no accountability without true leadership---there has been true leadership by citizens like you, the SLH folks and other independents trying to instill accountability and change. However,-most of the elected leadership have failed to achieve ANY accountability or change so they are not true leaders---the leadership by judiciary is needed and holds in the balance the fate of our hospital and indeed, our City.

2. You can't properly sell anything if you don't first know what you have to sell and put a value on it. While one could quibble over a couple of million here or there in valuations, the math in this case is simply--this deal is a "sham".

In addition and aside from the core legal and factual issue that Council made a decision on secret without competitive bidding, it is also clear that there has been no public disclosure of the "wind down expenses" or valuation of the LHA separate individual assets in a liquidation context. So the bottom line is that CCF will have $27M of our cash to wind down ---its unlikely that they will need all of that for the wind down so they get the balance of that $27M, plus the equipment, bed licenses and non compete for FREE. Based upon the Subsidium valuation that is a $70M++++++ windfall for CCF and corresponding loss to Lakewood taxpayers and the underserved.

Make no mistake about it, this is a "CRIME" in extreme moral and legal proportions.

It is a "murder" committed in the course of a robbery and theft of money and property.

[Bridget Conant]

The hospital and the money in the foundation were stolen from us.

The agreement is a masterpiece of creative gobbledegook meant to baffle and confuse the general public, who would rather believe our mayor and council understand it and think it's ok than to take the effort themselves to understand it.

Unfortunately, the council seems to have the same mindset - it's SO complicated so let's just trust the mayor and LHA/CCF.

It is a creative shell game where money is moved and shifted to appear that a real "deal" has occurred when, in fact, the deal does nothing for Lakewood - we hand over money and assets AND we assume the risk of the deal.

CCF isn't "giving" us anything. We are paying for the phony ER and the "health center." CCF is getting out, getting money in their pocket, and retaining control of this market.

And I'll ask Ms Madigan yet again - WHAT PART OF THIS DEAL MAKES US THE HEALTHIEST CITY IN AMERICA? What services will we gain (that we do not currently have) that will change us into healthier people?

[Brian Essi]

The hospital and the money in the foundation were stolen from us.

The agreement is a masterpiece of creative gobbledegook meant to baffle and confuse the general public, who would rather believe our mayor and council understand it and think it's ok than to take the effort themselves to understand it.

Unfortunately, the council seems to have the same mindset - it's SO complicated so let's just trust the mayor and LHA/CCF.

It is a creative shell game where money is moved and shifted to appear that a real "deal" has occurred when, in fact, the deal does nothing for Lakewood - we hand over money and assets AND we assume the risk of the deal.

CCF isn't "giving" us anything. We are paying for the phony ER and the "health center." CCF is getting out, getting money in their pocket, and retaining control of this market.

And I'll ask Ms Madigan yet again - WHAT PART OF THIS DEAL MAKES US THE HEALTHIEST CITY IN AMERICA? What services will we gain (that we do not currently have) that will change us into healthier people?

Bridget,

Great points.

Since CCF is getting $70M of value for nothing, Summers and City Council are allowing CCF to use our money to build CCF's $34M FHC/ER on free land. So CCF ends up with a Free FHC/ER, Columbia Road (a very attractive piece of real estate) and $36M of value to boot ($70M less the $34M Free FHC) PLUS elimination of a competitor in Lakewood.

Lakewood ends up with crappy unusable buildings and less $17M in cash--which is our cash to begin with anyway.

I predict that CCF is not done yet with our Foolish Mayor and Council "Leadership" yet.

Before the ink is dry on this hoax of a deal, CCF will be taking back some of that $17M too. Just wait---this is the CCF MO the sands will keep shifting.

This cast of bad actors can't be trusted in word or deed.

Shortly after the election, Summers told LHA trustees (in private of course) that even his supporters told him "I messed up." Remarkably, he used that as a pretext to rush the deal through by year end.

This foolish and stubborn man is unable to learn from his mistakes and come clean with public on the truth--he's doubled down on dumbness.

If we ever "unwind" the "wind down" thingy, I hope that Summers and the LHA Trustee have the personal net worth and insurance to pay back the City for the damage they have done to our hospital and public assets.

[Nadhal Eadeh]

All,

I'm most interested in the campaign finance reports due out in January. The BL side brags that they "won the election"..........but

1. When you outspend the opposition 10 to 1 and win by 4 points (Issue 64), its nothing to brag about. Where did the $50k come from?

2. How much outside money influenced the mayoral race? Who financed this election?

3. It saddens me that the opposition, which included a school board member, led the fight to bleed out Lakewoods largest employer. Knowing full well that this deal is economic suicide for the schools, city employees and residents of Lakewood.

4. Weeks ago I asked council members why they hadn't conducted a true economic impact study of the hospital closing, I never received a response

5. The Federal Trade Commission has brought increased scrutiny to hospital mergers in 2015. Typically when a complaint is filed with the FTC on the grounds of anti-trust, it gets a joint review by the Department of Justice's anti trust division:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/19/busin ... .html?_r=0

Nadhal

[Brian Essi]

Nadhal,

I am new to the politic scene and the rules that are always broken and nobody cares, but I've been told we won't see what Build Lakewood, LHA or CCF spent on the election.

[Brian Essi]

Nadhal,

FYI Jay Carson represented in a court filing that Build Lakewood is registered as a PAC.

[Nadhal Eadeh]

Yes they are registered as a political action committee via the State of Ohio. Perhaps Carson submitted his candidacy to scare Rep. Antonio. It's just a hunch. It's impressive that they (BL) were able to raise 50k in such a short amount of time. But of course, it depends on how many large donations were received.

To put the large donors into perspective on a macro level:

-About 158 families have donated about half of the monies raised to both the republican and democratic 2016 presidential candidates.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... .html?_r=0

We are living in the post Citizens United world where fundraising determines who gets access to public officials. With increased inequality, fewer people can raise sums large enough to influence the electoral process.

On a side note:

"The mayor reported donations from several Lakewood Hospital Association board members including Curtis Brosky, $200; Thomas Gable and his wife, Kathleen, $200; Kenneth Haber and his wife, Kathleen, $250; Dennis Roche, $200, and Kathleen McGorray, $100".

Isn't there a conflict of interest with the above financial statement? Don't they all serve together on the LHA? I honestly don't know....just asking.

I continue to applaud the efforts of SLH. They are doing the right thing.

[Brian Essi]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

[Corey Rossen]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

No consultation needed, I do not represent a side. But thanks for the compliment of thinking that I do.

[Brian Essi]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

No consultation needed, I do not represent a side. But thanks for the compliment of thinking that I do.

Again Corey, you expose yourself as as uniformed troll with nothing to add except mean spirited and snide commentary that lacks any substance at all. Your claim that you and others have been turned away by "antics" on the Deck is in fact an antic if a cowardly troll.

[Brian Essi]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

No consultation needed, I do not represent a side. But thanks for the compliment of thinking that I do.

Again Corey, you expose yourself as as uniformed troll with nothing to add except mean spirited and snide commentary that lacks any substance at all. Your claim that you and others have been turned away by "antics" on the Deck is in fact an antic if a cowardly troll.

There it was again back in December too.

[kate e parker]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

No consultation needed, I do not represent a side. But thanks for the compliment of thinking that I do.

Again Corey, you expose yourself as as uniformed troll with nothing to add except mean spirited and snide commentary that lacks any substance at all. Your claim that you and others have been turned away by "antics" on the Deck is in fact an antic if a cowardly troll.

There it was again back in December too.

so let me get this straight...you, essi, post a long-winded post that reads pretty much the same as all of your posts. rossen does not reply. apparently hurt by corey's lack of reply, you, essi, call him out. so then rossen does reply without hate or vulgarity and somehow this is an example of corey's hateful, troll-y ways? and you have to go back months and months to point this out?

I'll say it again...you are the most super-lawyery of all lawyers. so super that you are able to ferret out hidden hate. bravo, super-lawyer, bravo.

[Corey Rossen]

Corey,

Can you cite anything that is not accurate above?

Consult with Jay and get back to us.

No consultation needed, I do not represent a side. But thanks for the compliment of thinking that I do.

Again Corey, you expose yourself as as uniformed troll with nothing to add except mean spirited and snide commentary that lacks any substance at all. Your claim that you and others have been turned away by "antics" on the Deck is in fact an antic if a cowardly troll.

There it was again back in December too.

I am flattered that I occupy so much of your mind and bad intentions. I am in your head. In sports they would say that I own you. Thank you for going through the process of researching and looking me up so often. Did you have a bottle of your laced Ripple in your hand while doing this? Maybe you should put this much effort into winning your case (but maybe put down your laced Ripple, it will help you focus). In the meantime, I am honored to rule your mind the way that I do. Aren't you the one who just posted a picture of a plaque on a shelf at a store about irritating people? According to you, this means I am doing my job.

Carry on you hatred, but remember it is not allowed on the Deck according to your Terms of Agreement.

You are getting tired in your efforts to spew hate. Give it a rest for a little bit, recharge yourself and come back with that great twisting of words and double talk you do so well (except when you are apparently fatigued).