I sent this email on 5/17/2021 to: bbond@oag.state.md.us
Public Info Request To Maryland Attorney General about Ft. Howard Housing Deposits
I have proven well that the former lease holder for the Ft. Howard VAMC property - John David Infantino - is an international scam artist. He had signed on to create a "veterans focused" residential, retail, medical and commercial community. After several years of him not doing any work on the project, the VA cancelled the lease. He had taken housing security deposits from people who may or may not have been paid back. A legal order required him to pay the people back their deposits. I am requesting the list of those who were or were not paid back.
Even if they were, their lives were disturbed by their mistaken beliefs that they would soon be living with other vets on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco River. At least one sold his and his wife's long time home, and then the couple had to temporarily move into their son's garage. John Infantino never had an actual real estate development firm, just the name for it. He rarely had any employees, and only virtual offices where several companies used the same address, but none had their own staff there. Infantino has never completed any real estate development. He is a complete fraud, who fooled the Maryland Attorney General's office and many more people around the globe.
The public deserves proof that he did or did not pay deposits back to those who had dreamed of living on Ft Howard, but were broken hearted American Citizens when the project never happened. Please provide me with that proof.
From the Maryland Attorney General's Website:
"AG Gansler: Developer of Unbuilt Retirement
Community for Veterans in Baltimore Co. Must
Reimburse Deposits to Applicants
Baltimore, MD (June 3, 2014)"
From it:
"In order to apply to lease a rental unit, veterans had to submit an application packet and pay a "holder fee" of $500 for a single applicant or $750 for a joint application. A second deposit of either $1,500 or $2,250 was later collected from tenants to secure their residency."
The press release on that page ends with:
"he settlement requires Infantino and his companies to pay restitution to all Bayside at Fort Howard applicants whose money has not yet been returned to them. They must also pay the Consumer Protection Division $2,500 for its costs investigating the matter and a $10,000 penalty, which may be reduced to $5,000 if all terms of the settlement are met."
Thank you
David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}
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