Toxic Mold

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Dear Jeannie,

My hat is off to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I myslef have evrything you said but now I am so hypersesitive I wear a 3nm mask and cannot go outside. Thats was quite a letter...

People dont GET it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Janet

[Guest guest]

September 29, 2002

Grillo

Boston Globe

I read your article in today's real estate section about Mold. I applaud your story that discusses the efforts of the O'Neil family in New Hampshire and their fight against Toxic Mold. I have attached a photo of the Stachybotrys Toxic Mold in our home. It smells as bad as it looks.

I'm sure that as a reporter you understand the term "investigative reporting"? In the US Intelligence Community we had to investigate all information and sources to qualify accuracy. We also needed to know if a person had an ax to grind. If we reported with incorrect information, Americans died. A reporters story can have the same life and death issues.

A simple background check of Dr. Harriet Burge would have shown that she has been representing those being sued for Mold. Look to the Canadian Courts for proof. In others words, she has been a hired gun. I think she represented insurance companies in these issues before court. Insurance companies will have to pay billions in claims once the truth about the health issues of Toxic Mold is finally told.

Research of US Army Medical and Scientific reports will show that they have labeled Stachybotrys Toxic Mold as a weapon of biological warfare and a cousin to Anthrax. It might seem that Dr. Burge would be calling the US Army liars. Further research from Europe will show that many Medical and Scientific experts there have said that Stachybotrys might have been the Black Plague that killed half of Europe.

I would seem to find more logic in Medical and Scientific reporting that is not bought and paid for by insurance companies. Wouldn't you? If Dr Burge and her group "find" that Toxic Mold is "no big deal", I think this is what she said in a Canadian Court, the insurance companies will have won and Americans will have lost.

As far as Eugene Benoit, he appears to be another great one. Seems he works for the eastern Region of the EPA out of Boston. I and my Wife, Virginia, have spoken to him and the higher ups in his office. He told Virginia he could do nothing to help us with our Toxic Mold. He mentioned being told to stay away from us. I think he said the corruption we had uncovered would hurt a lot of big politicians in Massachusetts.

He also said that if Ted Kennedy was really serious about wanting the EPA to help us, a phone call from Ted and help would be on the way. He also said that he worked for Ted. I said the EPA is a Federal agency. He said that Kennedy controls the EPA. Right after these several conversations he went on Maternity leave.

The head of the Eastern Region EPA refused to return our phone calls and messages. Ms. Whitman, the head of the EPA in Washington has ignored my Freedom of Information requests for Public Record documents from the White House and Ted Kennedy about our issue with Toxic Mold. The US Justice Department said they could do nothing about the violation of the FOI law.

The Boston Globe has known of the illegal construction of our home and that it was caused by town and state corruption. They came here in 1996 and understood that fact after seeing the Police, Town and State reports with their own eyes. They have known of our Toxic Mold since we first learned of it a few years ago.

I have also asked the Globe to report on our efforts to get Toxic Mold and Construction Lemon Laws passed. They have yet to write anything about it. I've been asking them since 1996. When does the life and safety start to become important enough for the Globe to write about it?

Every week I get communications from citizens across America asking for my help in their families fight against Toxic Mold or corrupt government building inspectors. They come to me rather that their elected local, state or federal officials. They have said they come to me because I care. Do you care enough to help us out here?

My Massachusetts Toxic Mold and Construction Lemon Laws are attached. I have also sent them to other states and am trying to get them submitted at the Federal level. Call me if you are interested.

Ken Moulton

38 Hawser Bend

Centerville, MA. 02632

508-771-6365

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Killers have more rights than Kenny. His only "crime" was to be born "defective".

Ken Moulton

508-771-6365

As many of you already know, my Son, Kenny, is mentally retarded, quadriplegic, epileptic and has many other medical wonders. He is 27 and lives with us. An Institution would kill him.

Due to his many medical problems, his body's immune system is damaged. It seems the Toxic Mold in our home has shown no favorites. It has begun attacking him. Attached is a photo of the Toxic Mold that grows on his hospital bed.

Due to the failures of our local, state and federal officials we must throw this bed away and find a new one, to include a mattress and sheets. The cost of one of these is a few thousand dollars. This Mold bed was paid for with money from the Federal Insurance that covers Kenny. Federal money ruined by Toxic Mold that no government official will help us with.

This is a sad Country will live in when the Government turns its back on the most vulnerable citizens. HUD, the EPA, Congress, the President and Vice-President all know of our Toxic Mold. So do all of our state and local officials. Seems nobody will come to our home because a report will have to be written which would incriminate them all. Instead they use their 5th Amendment rights. What about Kenny's rights!? He is an American.

Ken Moulton

508-771-6365

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As all are aware, I have written to our Governor, Attorney General, Legislature and State Treasurer about the town and state corruption. None of the elected officials have bothered to do a thing. The Treasurer is running for Governor. I contacted her, also, in her capacity as a candidate for Governor. Still no reply.

Mitt Romney is also running for Governor. I contacted him and his staff replied. I sent them our story and some documents that are government public records.

Their reply follows. As you can see, they admit that the town and state have broken the law but can do nothing because he is not an elected official. Tom is the Chief State Building inspector and is appointed by the Governor. Sounds like Romney will fire him if elected.

Our Attorney General knows all about but has refused to prosecute. even refused to turn over reports of corrupt building that the AG asked him for. has also ignored requests fro reports that the Legislature has asked for.

Not only does the Toxic Mold stink but so does the politics here in Massachusetts.

Ken Moulton

508-771-6365

Ken,

Thank you very much for contacting the campaign and communicating your tragic and deeply troubling story. From the materials you have sent me it is seemingly clear that corruption in the town of Barnstable relating to your home implicates many in high ranking state positions, and some in the legislature itself. Such disgusting abuse of power is exactly the type of problem that Mitt Romney is uniquely qualified to remedy. However, even with his impeccable integrity and leadership strength, reform will be difficult. But reform must be achieved and justice better served.

Prior to such reform Mitt must be elected our next Governor. Unfortunately, at this late stage in the campaign and without a more direct linkage to O'Brien I do not foresee Mitt being able to make a visit to your home. Although Mitt is not likely to directly highlight your situation, I can assure you that the sheer corruption that your cause exemplifies is precisely that which drives Mitt to seek the highest office in the State. For what it is worth, I will continue to look for any opportunity to further your cause here at the campaign. Be confident that when Mitt is elected he will take the broom of reform and sweep out many of those like Mr. Rodgers (and hopefully in Mr. Rodger's case, directly into jail.) I hope you accept my apologies for not being able to do more to improve your situation at present.

Best possible wishes,

T. Roeder

Policy Development

-----Original Message-----From: KENHMOULTON@... [mailto:KENHMOULTON@...]Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:43 AMjroeder@...Subject: Toxic Mold,Thank you for calling. Here are a few websites with Government reports and news stories. At the end is our story. I am faxing you some documents that I mention in our story. We need help. Please!Ken Moulton508-771-6365http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/ei/eimold.htmlhttp://archderm.ama-assn.org/issues/v135n3/ffull/dre8030.htmlhttp://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/textbook/Ch-34.pdfhttp://www.dhs.ca.gov/org/ps/deodc/ehib/EHIB2/topics/toxin_producing.htmlhttp://www.aap.org/policy/re9736.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9711/05/deadly.mold/http://gcrc.cwru.edu/stachy/http://www.ehw.org/Healthy_House/HH_Toxic_Mold.htmhttp://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/107p927-930flappan/abstract.htmlhttp://archive.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500560749-500802101-504352075-0,00.htmlhttp://www.consumerwatchdog.org/insurance/nw/nw000452.php3http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf18/pressrel/pr99-193.htmlhttp://adserver.trb.com/html.ng/site=latimes & adtype=popwindow & channel=popups & adplacement=text2http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/living/home/3099605.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsphttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/01/eveningnews/main507779.shtmlhttp://starbulletin.com/2002/08/17/business/index1.htmlhttp://www.ctnow.com/news/health/hc-sickbuilding.artsep01.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2DhomeWhen one examines a series of Government Public Record Documents, such as I have assembled here for your review, a pattern of illegal and criminal acts comes into focus. One need only use simple analysis and common sense to comprehend the serious nature of these criminal acts. During the summer of 1992, the Massachusetts Rehab Commission, MRC, was performing handicapped renovations at our home at 38 Hawser Bend in Centerville, Ma. Under Massachusetts Law, a building permit was required due to the altering of plumbing and electrical components. As evidenced in Item 1, no building permit was taken out by the MRC as required.I wrote, Item 2, to our Town Building Commissioner and State authorities asking for help. While the State did a partial fix, the issue of the cut floor joists was not correctly fixed so a safety issue still existed. In 1998, MRC finally sent an Inspector. By this time, we had water leaking into areas of the house.The Inspector said he saw no water leaking from the illegally constructed shower. The reason was, as stated in Item 3A - 3D, he told us not to turn any water on. Finally, the MRC told us to get a home equity loan and fix the problem ourselves. The illegal acts of the MRC had helped to diminish the value of our home to zero.At the same time MRC was making the handicapped renovations, we were making renovations to the basement. We took out our own building permit and hired the contractors. At each stage of construction, we had the Barnstable town Inspectors view the work at which time they signed off that it complied with all codes and laws.On the final building inspection, Barnstable building Inspector Bearse came. He viewed everything with my Wife, Virginia, and our contractor. Mr. Bearse stated everything was according to code and he would make the final approval on our building permit.He stated he had forgotten his pen so Virginia brought him to our kitchen and gave him one. At that time he stated he was accepting donations to his and his wives upcoming trip. Virginia asked him to repeat what he had just said and he said the same thing. Virginia said she would give him no money so he left without signing the building permit.In 1993, the Barnstable Police Department did an investigation into Virginia's complaint against Mr. Bearse. The police called it attempted extortion. As can bee seen by Items 4 and 5, Mr. Bearse admitted he never signed the original, Item 6, 1988 building permit, required by Law, when the home was first built. He further admitted that he had seen many building code violations. By stating this knowledge, he admitted to Federal Bank Fraud and Consumer Fraud but was never charged by the Police.As can be seen in Item 5, Mr. Bearse told the Police that he had signed the Certificate of Occupancy Item 7, COO, for the builders on December 28, 1988. This document is required by banks before any new construction loan can be approved. It is a Town warranty that the construction meets or exceeds all local, state and federal codes and laws. Under State Law, a COO cannot be issued unless a home meets or exceeds all codes and the building permit must be signed at all stages of construction. As can be seen, the COO was actually signed by Mr. Bearse on July 1, 1988 some six months earlier. The Police had this document from the Town Building Department so they knew he was lying. If he was under oath, he committed perjury. We had bought and moved into the house in middle July of 1988. In spite of his lying to them, the Police took no action against Mr. Bearse. In Items 4 and 5, the Police make use of personal logs that Mr. Bearse gave them. These logs were requested from the Police Department under the Freedom of Information. They were never given. While these logs show Mr. Bearse's knowledge of the illegal construction of the home, they also raise questions.If Mr. Bearse ever visited the home during construction, why didn't he mark the building permit, as Law requires, of the date of his visit and his rejection of the illegal construction. Instead, he uses personal logs that are not Public record. Perhaps the answer is that he never inspected the home at all. By the time the police investigated, Mr. Bearse was already aware of the major areas of illegal construction. It is very easy to create an imaginary log that admits to what is already known about the illegal construction. It seems that he erred in creating these logs due to the dates about the COO being issued. His signature is on the COO and the date he signed it.Why would he admit to illegal construction? As can be seen by actions by the Town and State, in December 1993 a Law was passed by the Legislature, with no debate, that was attached to a budget bill. The Governor signed it. The Bill gives a blanket pardon from any legal action for the exact failures as displayed by Mr. Bearse. He knew he was going to be protected.According to Barnstable Town Public Records, Item 8, it seems that Mr. Bearse's boss, Mr. Daluz, was also having a few legal problems. In 1993, I submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Town for the affidavit mentioned in the Memo. Several years later it seems the Town destroyed the affidavit while my FOI request was still open. They did not have the authorization, required under State Law, to destroy this document. Authorization is required from the Massachusetts Secretary of State who was also seeking this document on my behalf.Since 1993, we have been asking the Town of Barnstable for abatement of our property taxes. They have ignored us. We recently discovered that since 1993 the assessing records of the Town have noted "house has structural problems" in the notes section. In spite of this documented knowledge, the Town has been mailing us bills on a home they know has a diminished, if not zero, value. I think this is called Fraud by the US Mail.In December of 1993, Mr. , Chief building Inspector for the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Safety, came to our home with his team. They spent considerable time inspecting. Upon their completion, Mr. said the unsigned building permit was illegal and the COO was bank and consumer fraud. He said our home was illegal and the Town had acted illegally. Mr. called the unsigned building permit the "smoking gun" against the Town.Under State Law, and his job description, Mr. is required to write reports of his inspections. As can bee seen by Item 9, he never did. In my research, I also discovered that Mr. , and members of his staff, also failed to write reports of other illegal building allowed by local government building inspectors. Items 10, 11 and 12 show that they ignored requests from the Massachusetts Attorney General.In a 1998 report prepared for the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety, the supervisor of Mr. , it was noted that Mr. failed to write reports of his inspections of unsafe homes on Nantucket. These were new modular homes. The homes were found to be unsafe and in violation of state building codes. The Nantucket Building Commissioner, Dunn, was involved in these inspections. Mr. Dunn has recently been indicted on Charges of corruption in his Nantucket position.A 1998 Department of Public Safety report stated that Mr. and his staff were responsible for inspecting and for issuing approval stickers to all modular homes. According to the report, Mr. and his staff gave the inspection approval stickers to the modular home manufacturers. Seems the builder inspected themself. The State took no actions against Mr. or his staff.Upon my further investigation, I discovered Item 13A. It seems that in 1990, the State told the City of Boston that Mr. did not meet the State requirements to be a building inspector. He held this position in Boston, which than transferred him to the water Dept. A short time later, Governor Weld appointed Mr. to the very State Board that had ruled Mr. as an unqualified building inspector.Since December 8, 1994 until recently, I have written to Governor's Weld, Cellucci and Swift about these corruption issues and have been ignored. Seems they have appointed Mr. but fear firing him. The Attorney General's have also been told of this corruption for several years but have also declined to do anything. Remember, Mr. ignored a written investigation request by the Attorney General.In 1996, we finally went to court against the builders of our home. Sadly, the Town decided to protect themselves and the builders. In September of 1996, we found in the Towns Building department files, Item 14, the previously unsigned building permit for the original construction of our home had been tampered with. Seems Town officials illegally altered the building permit. To alter a building permit is against State Law. To alter it when they knew it was being given to the Courts is Obstruction of Justice. The fact that they faxed it is also Fraud by Wire. By doing this, the Town denied us the right of showing that the builders has acted in a deceitful way.Since December of 1997, we have been asking the Massachusetts Inspector General to investigate this corruption. Seems, in spite of my many calls and communications, they never bothered to question or interview us. They have done nothing. When asked by other Law and investigative agencies, they stated they were investigating.Since 1993, we have written to many members of the Massachusetts Senate and Legislature about this ongoing corruption. Promises of action are made and soon forgotten. It seems that none of our State or Legislative leaders care because it is happening to somebody else. They all are long on excuses and short on action!Since 1993, we have repeatedly asked, Items 15A through 15F the Barnstable and State building inspectors to come to our home. In 1993, Mr. did but refused to write a report of the illegal construction he told us of. One must remember, the construction was performed by builders that he licensed, by the state that he worked for and by local building inspectors he reviewed. Everybody knew of the illegal construction and they closed their eyes to it.From this illegal construction, water leaked into our home. These officials knew it and saw it. Still they did nothing. In October 2000 and in November of 2001, Items 16A through 16C, I asked our Town Officials and building and health inspectors to come to our home. In October of 2001, I was given Medical and professional confirmation of the Toxic Mold in our home.So, due to the illegal acts of Barnstable, their building and health inspectors and the State, our home is filled with high levels of Toxic Mold. All of our Medical Tests show we have been infected by the Toxic Mold and are suffering Medical problems from it.As you can see, I have used local and state public record documents in my analysis. I only provided a few of my own letter as supporting evidence. I have many other communications from local and state officials as well as my many communications to them. All of these documents show the same, corruption and government failure to obey and enforce the Law.Ken Moulton38 Hawser BendCenterville, Ma. 02632508-771-6365