Ft. Howard VA Property Zoning Situation

Email sent to Chief, Public & Community Relations at VA Maryland Health Care System R. David Edwards, on 2/21/2024.  

This is a community relations situation. We need the proper representatives from the VA to publicly establish the fact that the VA & Baltimore County, along with (fully qualified and experienced) leased developer Sam Himmelrich are not messing around with developing Fort Howard until they are able to build low-income subsidized housing on the former hospital grounds. It is publicly explained as proposed county code/rule/law being designed so that the county can place low-income housing there without rezoning, permits, or with input from council members or the affected United States Citizens. Supposedly, the developer will be able to bypass everything that everyone else has to do to develop housing. That is asinine!! 

When the VA fired the 1st lessee (International Super Scammer) John David Infantino from the lease, Infantino declared that he was not legally obligated to follow building codes/rules/laws. Later, he sued the USA (including taxpayers you and me) over it. I have a court report of the case, which states that Infantino was required to follow all codes/rules/laws. Surely that applies to the new developer, also. 

Plus, most low-income people will not move there, due to them needing to be close to bus service, stores, etc. It is nearly a 5-mile walk out of the former VAMC to the nearest store; along a two-lane road without sidewalks. Bus service for the area was barely used until it was canceled back in the 1990s. 

Numerous people are unreasonable about this. They are asking for support to stop the VA campus from being rezoned from 1 living unit per acre up to 500 living units; relying on the false information that the VA either wants to have low-income Section 8 in there or the residents will be wealthy nonvets. The property sure as hell can be an upscale gated community. I vehemently oppose either type of development. 

The greatest fears in the area community are that new housing will become a thriving illegal drug market. They believe some new residents, and drug addicts going there to buy, will be all over the area to steal from sheds, rob vehicles, do burglaries, rape people, get into arguments, start fights, and so forth. I know the community well, from the 1950s up to today. I love Fort Howard and its nearby neighborhoods. 

Himmelrich Associates is taking care of the property with grass cutting, fallen tree removal, and full-time security, along with various fixes & upgrades to the infrastructure. They have studied the property and are creating potentially sensible plans for its rebirth to veterans' uses, but cannot commit to proceeding with development work unless they will be able to make enough money to pay for the project.

I cannot recall if I read this or heard it from County Councilman Todd Crandell that the zoning changes were made to be a bargaining point, to bring the numbers of proposed future residents down from the outlandish 1,400 living units that Infantino, then the 2nd not qualified lease signer Tim Munshell had pushed for. Going up to being zoned for several hundred living units is what the situation is about, which may be the only sensible course of action. 

The VA created a community nuisance of the VAMC grounds. The place was left unguarded during the Infantino years, plus most of the time Munshell held the lease. Lots of people believe that the place is abandoned, consequently, they feel free to explore, photograph and video (YouTube) all through the broken-into buildings. There have been tons of people "partying" on the grounds.  Some people vandalized buildings for the power feelings of committing destruction. Others stole saleable metals, etc. 

Eight arson fires were set, destroying millions of dollars worth of houses, including the most valuable 1900-era homes luxuriously built for Army officers to enjoy living on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco River. There have been at least 60 people locked up for trespassing on federal land. Mostly young men in their 20s, who now have arrest records that might disqualify them from employment, college scholarships, and more. Many of whom were benignly enjoying the place.

Sociopath deluxe John Infantino's development promises led his multitudes of scam victims in steering their lives to soon be living or working at a nicely developed Ft. Howard Veterans Community. I know of two who sold their homes then had to move to lesser places. John David conned many people out of housing deposits, and the State's Attorney ordered the money returned. Has it been repaid?   

The VA owes America a written apology for failing to find qualified developers and then allowing the destructive failures, along with waterfront weather rotting buildings, to grow worse for 20 years. Therefore, I declare that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs is obligated to make something positive for veterans and the adjacent communities. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 

In my mind, the people responsible for the Fort Howard VA property development fiasco are guilty of MANSLAUGHTER! You know full well that if the first developer - International Super Scammer John D. Infantino - had been legitimate and developed the property, it WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVING SOME SUICIDAL VETS SUPPORT & REASON TO LIVE LONGER. That would be vets living there and others who are - RIGHT NOW - DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED, ANGERED AND DEPRESSED FROM KNOWING THE PROJECT HAS BEEN A HORRIBLE FIASCO FOR OVER TWO DECADES. I know these facts from in-person and online communications. 

About the States Attorney and Infantino:

https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/2016/05/ft-howard-scam-website-back-online.html

(not on email admin edit 2/22/2024) An excerpt from the court report: Def.'s App'x 44, Article 17.B. Accordingly, if a state or local government imposed taxes on FHSHA's (Fort Howard Senior Housing Associates, LLC) interest in the property, FHSHA was obligated to pay such taxes and the VA did not have the power under § 8167 to exempt FHSHA from paying state or local taxes. ...the court agrees that the Lease required FHSHA to obtain Baltimore County's approval for the development of the property. If FHSHA knew that it would have to construct 1,300 units rather than 550 units to make the Lease viable, FHSHA was required at a minimum to try to get permission from the County to build more than 550 units. The undisputed facts show, however, that FHSHA never sought a variance from Baltimore County. To the contrary, FHSHA decided not to seek a variance, but instead sought only an exemption from local land use rules. See supra n. 15. A request for an exemption is not the same as seeking to comply with local land use requirements through the variance process or otherwise. Because FHSHA bore the risk under the Lease for complying with Baltimore County's density requirements and failed to even attempt to comply with Baltimore County's zoning code, it cannot show that its failure to construct the CBOC (Community-Based Outpatient Clinic) should be excused because it could not finance the project. FHSHA simply failed to fulfill its obligations under the Lease. As such, the court finds that FHSHA's impossibility defense fails as a matter of law.16"

The legal findings for Infantino being legally bound to follow building codes/rules/laws are here: 

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20150601917

Time For Ft. Howard VAMC Property To Be For Veterans Uses

 It is time to get this straightened out. Two decades ago, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs incorrectly declared that they were going to have a "veterans-focused" residential community developed on their property of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Fort Howard, Maryland. Two leases with unqualified 'property developers' and more later and the property has never been developed but allowed to be trashed, vandalized, misused, arsoned and to rot in the Chesapeake Bay Waterfront weather. Approximately 70 other such development projects - across America - are successful. 

Not only has this been extremely disappointing to many of us, but some vets thought they were going to move to Ft Howard and sold their homes. Those vets and others had put deposits down on future rental residences on Ft. Howard, and they may not have gotten their deposits back. John David Infantino did that to them, as he was running similar scams all over the world and had already run a few against the VA and the military.  All while making fictional grandiose claims of many real estate successes - including being property and/or asset manager to several VA facilities. He caused many financial and social tragedies all over the globe. 

The second lease holder - Tim Munshell - followed suit with Infantino (whom Munshell knows) and Munshell had the same lack of security guards for the property along with very little work done. Except that Munshell never tried the deposit scam, though he allegedly attempted to make a $10,000,000 loan ("seed money") from the Iron Workers Union Retirement Funds. 

Neither Munshell nor Infantino had any chance of bringing the massive amounts of financing required of them for the large project.

The Ft Howard VAMC property is well known among people who have explored the place for all these 20-years, thinking it was abandoned, interesting and spooky. I know of over 50 lockups made against young trespassers on Ft. Howard when VA Police were temporarily reassigned to the property. Plus other times when County police were called by neighbors. 

It is a terrible situation for the small civilian community of Ft. Howard. Eight arsons that even burned down the three most beautiful 1900-era wooden homes that were well-built for Army officer families. I have photos and videos online showing all I say of what damages are there on the Ft. Howard VAMC property. Other people have posted their numerous photos and videos online of them walking all over the property and in buildings. 

Nothing has ever been said by the authorities to Munshell or Infantino about the messes they made. Neither lived up to their signed agreements. 

John Infantino sued the USA over the VA canceling his lease for Ft Howard, and in the court case he partly proved himself to be as conniving a conman as I say he is.

I have copies of signed agreements, court reports, websites, online articles about Infantino or Munshell, and more. 

This situation has caused me years of depression and anxiety, as I did over a thousand hours of research, writing, photographing, posting and emailing about this. I can't take it anymore; this damned garbage is pushing me into my grave.

Day by day I wake up so sick inside I can hardly do anything. I am one of many who can have better life if the truths about this are presented to the world by a major publication.

I'm an old disabled vet, with one chance to have more years on Earth: I have to make this story happen and know of the ensuing legal actions against John D. Infantino and Timothy Munshell. 

I have a great deal of info in posts on this blog at: https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/search?q=fort+howard

The entrance to the Fort Howard, Md. VAMC Property seen on 9/19/2022. You can see that there are tree debris on the road surface, which would have been cleared off by passing vehicles if any real work was going on towards the development project, but the grass was being kept cut so somebody has something to do with the place. Why are they not developing it!?! 

Sign the Petition To Have The VA Make Something Positive of Their Ft. Howard Property

 After nearly two decades of Maryland's Ft. Howard VAMC property wasting away, it is time to raise hell about it. Beginning with you signing and sharing the petition linked to below. In 2004, Ft Howard was set to be developed into a veterans' residential, retail and medical community. It is supposed to have individual living units, assisted living, and a nursing home, small shops and eateries, plus a VA medical clinic. In 2006, the VA signed a lease to it with (fake) developer John Infantino, and he lost the lease after years of inaction at beginning the development work. Infantino rarely had security there, and the place was vandalized terribly.

Then Tim Munshell took over with a new lease, and he not only is not qualified, he did not take care of the property either, and eight arsons happened destroying the best waterfront old houses and more. He left it that way, though he is legally liable for reconstructing the houses exactly as they were built in the 1900-era. The last lease holder is Sam Himmelrich, who is an accomplished Baltimore developer of old properties, but there is newer zoning that he says limits the number of buildable living units so low he can't make enough off rents.

Government rules are that after three fails at development, the property is taken from the VA and given to the US Government General Services Administration to be disposed of. If Himmelrich goes, we vets loose Ft. Howard. And the area community will not like that.

Fort Howard deserves the support of all Americans. It is a great place for veterans' health care and homes.

Petition ​Department of Veterans Affairs Must Make Something Positive of Ft. Howard VAMC Property (ipetitions.com)

People Need to Face It That the Ft. Howard Development is Still Stalled

 Right now! It is time for citizens to make known to the VA, politicians, and media that what is happening to the former VA Hospital on Ft. Howard is a terrible thing. If you don’t, I suspect a lot of people will really regret it. The US Government is going to do something with the property. I had a conversation with the Baltimore VA's R. David Edwards - Chief, Public and Community Relations. Mr. Edwards informed me that the VA gets three chances to have a VA property redeveloped. Then the General Services Administration takes over the property and has a list of three other entities whom the property is offered to. If number one turns it down, number two is offered; then if that is not accepted number three has a shot at it. I cannot recall the names on that list, and if they all turn it down I cannot recall what he said happens next but the land may be sold. Either way, veterans loose it, and the Ft Howard area communities may be negatively impacted by the next use of that federal property.

I do not know if the VA has or has not begun to make moves towards cancelling the current lease to Ft Howard, but they may be. The tricky question I do not have the answer to is whether the current lease holder is still the second one, Tim Munshell, or the current developer, Sam Himmelrich, has a third lease. About a year ago, Mr. Himmelrich and I exchanged some emails, then had a long conversation on the phone. He invited me down to see the work he has accomplished in restoring the Ft. Howard campus. He is a fan of my photography, and I was to take photos and write about it. Sam Himmelrich is the first actual, experienced and successful real estate developer to work on the property. Sam no longer answers my emails.

Due to the first lease holder, John David Infantino, being nothing but a conman who has never done any development, the VA made a serious mistake by signing the lease with him. I say his lease should not count in the "three strikes you’re’ out" regulation that puts the property up for grabs by entities outside the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Tim Munshell has no full project development experience or abilities, but he did study the property and was hired by Himmelrich to do what Tim actually does well on a development project. Which I have said all along Munshell was up to – to be between the VA and a real developer.

If people do not get with this and make some efforts to force the VA into setting this situation right, veterans and the Fort Howard, Chesapeake Terrace, Millers Island, Lodge Forrest, Lodge Farm and Edgemere neighborhoods may very well be grossly, negatively impacted.

The US Government is going to do something with the property.

Do all you can to assure it has a positive outcome.

The photo is of the entrance to the Ft. Howard VA property on Easter Sunday 2021. That yellow gate should be closed and locked. I did not step further towards the tall fence to see if there is a lock on it, because that could get police called for trespassing. It had rained several days prior, so I saw that the washed out tree debris would have shown tire tracks if vehicles had been in there recent to that day. Which means if there are not security guards living in there, then there may not be any security. Himmelrich did have good security posted there.

The VA's Enhanced-Use Lease Program Is Working but Not At Ft. Howard

The video and list below shows us that some of the Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced-Use Lease deals have been successful - all over America. Through this (EUL) program, VA out-leases underutilized real estate under its jurisdiction or control to the private sector for up to 75 years for the purpose of developing supportive housing for homeless and at risk Veterans and their families. But the VA's EUL for the Fort Howard, Maryland VAMC property has yet to create any homes for veterans, or anyone else. 

The Ft. Howard EUL got off to a bad beginning, in 2004, when the VA signed a memorandum of understanding with (fake) property developer John D. Infantino. In 2006, Infantino signed a VA lease to the Ft Howard property. In 2009, the VA cancelled that lease, due to John Infantino not doing anything to make the development project happen. For John David Infantino, it is all about making it appear that he has the intent, ways and means to complete a project, so he can scam investors into giving him investment money for doing the project. He lives well on what he bilks from those investors. Infantino has never done any actual property development.

Infantino's scam against the VA's Enhanced-Use Lease of the Fort Howard VAMC property is still instrumental in the delay of the veterans community development proposed for that Ft. Howard property. That fraud crippled the momentum of the project, because too much of the public and the governments no longer believe a veterans community is possible on Ft. Howard. That property rots from the natural elements and suffers further destruction by a mass of vandalism. Although other VA properties around the country have been completed by true developers, and the VA had declared Ft. Howard to be the first to be done plus an example of how the others were to be done.

A second lease to the Ft Howard VA was signed with the VA by Tim Munshell and Carl Williams, in 2012, but neither had ever done such a development project. Williams had lied to Munshell and everyone about having $50,000,000 to bring to the project. And due to that lie & more, Williams was removed from, or left, the Ft. Howard EUL deal, and it became all up to Tim Munshell to acquire all funding. Carl Williams not living up to his promises made it tougher for Munshell, but Tim Munshell's abilities to earn honest money have always been as a middle-man between the VA, investors, a fully capable developer, and to work with the head contractor. Tim is well reputed to be very good at helping contractors secure investment funding and being of solid value in certain capacities on a construction project, but not as the head of one. Tim eventually managed to turn the lease over to Sam Himmelrich. Then Himmelrich employed Munshell on the FT. Howard project, because Tim had studied the property well and knows how to help where his skills and experience are useful. Sam Himmelrich has a proven record of completing successful property developments.

All of us veterans' service to the United States has paid to have that VA property be used to our advantage.




Here is the latest list of EUL's from https://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/ :

Location State EUL Type
Housing Type Lease Awarded Status  
1 Albany NY Parking 8/5/2009 Active  
2 Atlanta GA Office 12/18/1997 Active  
3 Barbers Point HI Permanent and Transitional 3/17/2003 Active
4 Batavia NY Transitional 5/24/2002 Active
5 Batavia NY Senior 12/22/2008 Active  
6 Battle Creek MI Transitional 12/22/2008 Active  
7 Bedford MA Permanent 9/10/2004 Active  
8 Bedford MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
9 Brockton MA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
10 Butler PA Mental Health Facility 12/18/2003 Active  
11 Butler PA Transitional 4/17/2007 Active  
12 Canandaigua NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
13 Charleston/MUSC SC Driveway 5/18/2004 Active  
14 Chicago (Westside) IL Office 4/22/2002 Active  
15 Chicago (Westside) IL Energy 8/12/2002 Active  
16 Chillicothe OH Mixed Use 12/22/2008 Active  
17 Chillicothe OH Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
18 Cleveland OH Mixed Use 10/1/2009 Active  
19 Columbia SC Mixed Use 11/19/2007 Active  
20 Dallas TX Child Development Center 12/20/1999 Active  
21 Danville IL Senior 4/27/1999 Active  
22 Danville IL Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
23 Dayton OH Permanent 12/30/2004 Active  
24 Dayton OH Child Development Center 12/30/2004 Active  
25 Dayton OH Transitional 4/19/2007 Active  
26 Dayton OH Transitional 11/5/2008 Active  
27 Dayton OH Senior 12/30/2011 Active  
28 Durham NC Mixed Use 1/3/2002 Active  
29 Grand Island NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
30 Hines IL Transitional 8/22/2003 Active  
31 Hines IL Senior 7/30/2004 Active  
32 Hines IL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
33 Houston TX Mixed Use 8/23/1993 Active  
34 Indianapolis IN Mixed Use 9/23/1996 Active  
35 Kerrville TX Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
36 Leavenworth KS Permanent 8/5/2005 Active  
37 Lincoln NE Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
38 Lyons NJ Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
39 Memphis I TN Parking 12/30/2011 Active  
40 Menlo Park CA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
41 Milwaukee WI Office 7/17/2003 Active  
42 Minneapolis MN Credit Union 8/17/2004 Active  
43 Minneapolis MN Permanent 9/1/2005 Active  
44 Minneapolis MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
45 Minneapolis II MN Permanent 6/2/2016 Active  
46 Mound City IL Office 11/6/2003 Active  
47 Mountain Home TN Medical School 12/17/1998 Active  
48 Mountain Home TN Energy 12/2/1999 Active  
49 Newington CT Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
50 North Chicago IL Energy 5/21/2002 Active  
51 Northampton MA Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Active  
52 Pershing Hall, Paris* FR Hotel 10/16/1998 Active  
53 Portland OR Crisis Triage Center 2/13/2004 Active  
54 Roseburg OR Transitional 8/1/2000 Active  
55 Roseburg OR Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
56 Salt Lake City UT Office 5/9/2001 Active  
57 Salt Lake City UT Transitional 8/30/2011 Active  
58 Salt Lake City II UT Mixed Use 9/20/2006 Active  
59 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
60 Sepulveda CA Permanent 12/21/2007 Active  
61 Sioux Falls SD Parking 4/1/1999 Active  
62 Somerville NJ Mixed Use 9/5/2003 Active  
63 St. Cloud MN Golf Course 7/28/1997 Active  
64 St. Cloud MN Permanent 5/24/2005 Active  
65 St. Cloud MN Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
66 Tuscaloosa AL Hospice 9/19/2002 Active  
67 Tuscaloosa AL Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
68 Vancouver WA Permanent 7/14/1998 Active  
69 Vancouver WA Permanent 12/27/2011 Active  
70 Viera FL Assisted Living 12/13/2011 Active  
71 Walla Walla WA Permanent 12/30/2011 Active  
72 Washington DC Child Development Center 4/20/1993 Active  
73 West LA CA Permanent 5/18/2017 Active  
74 West Palm Beach FL Office 11/14/1994 Active  
75 Augusta I GA Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
76 Augusta II GA Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
77 Fort Harrison MT Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
78 Fort Howard MD Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
79 Perry Point MD Permanent 12/30/2011 Construction  
80 Togus ME Permanent 12/27/2011 Construction  
81 Newington CT Assisted Living 12/27/2011 Development  
82 Northport NY Permanent and Transitional 12/27/2011 Development  
83 Alexandria LA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
84 Batavia NY Terminated 5/24/2002 Terminated  
85 Bath NY Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
86 Bay Pines FL Terminated 5/22/1997 Terminated  
87 Big Spring TX Terminated 3/8/1996 Terminated  
88 Cheyenne WY Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
89 Chicago (Lakeside) IL Terminated 1/18/2005 Terminated  
90 Dayton II OH Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
91 Fort Howard MD Terminated 9/28/2006 Terminated  
92 Knoxville IA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
93 Memphis II TN Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
94 North Chicago IL Terminated 4/10/2002 Terminated  
95 North Little Rock AR Golf Course 10/1/1998 Terminated  
96 Sacramento CA Terminated 12/27/2011 Terminated  
97 Salem VA Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
98 Topeka KS Terminated 12/30/2011 Terminated  
99 West Haven CT Terminated 12/1/1994 Terminated

Email #2 to Witnesses Who Can Help Verify What I Say About My 30th Arty Okinawa Experiences

After I sent the email posted about above this post, I sent the email below to the son of the former brigade commander for the 30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 1970, and to a former lieutenant who was supposed to be able to - but could not - order the right equipment and supplies for my photography work at the 30th, plus to Jim Whitcomb - who was a 30th Arty photographer before me and can verify all that I say was illegal & morally wrong about the 30th Arty having a photographer and a photo lab placed where it was. 

I know Jim must have either read the email or at least saw it and knows what I want from him, because it is his active & prolific photography business's email. The Hergert and eddiebar (Lt. T. Gordon Barber) emails did go through, but I have no idea if the two men check those email addresses.

I have previously engaged in various communications with these fellows, and they know what I have been trying to set right for decades.







I am providing links to my VA scammer work. Infantino: https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/search?q=infantino

for Munshell: https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/search?q=munshell

Here is a link to where most of my Flickr photos and vids are in collections: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ursusdave/collections
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Ft. Howard Development LLC Is In Receivership

About a month ago, I had a phone conversation about Fort Howard with Eric Pierce of the Department of Veterans Affairs' asset management office. The situation is so bad that I haven't been able to deal with it. The Ft Howard lease holder - Tim Munshell - owes a lot of money for other peoples' work done towards the development project, and they are trying to force Munshell into bankruptcy. Mr. Pierce informed me that the State threw out the bankruptcy case and sent it to the County. 

Munshell's Ft Howard Development LLC is now in receivership, which means that some person - the receiver - acts as custodian of a company's assets. Very unfortunately, for all, Fort Howard Development LLC's only asset is their lease with the VA. The receiver is the one who decides whether to sell the lease; then the government must approve that purchaser.

So, someone who may not know much about Ft. Howard currently has the say.

Munshell is holding onto the lease to try and bum-squeeze money out of anyone. 

There have been buildings on the former Fort Howard VA Hospital grounds destroyed by eight arsons, other vandalism damage is everywhere, buildings are rotting by nature, and Munshell is legally bound to restore everything. The grounds are grossly overgrown, which must be taken care of. County fines are owed. Creditors are owed.

What actual property developer will buy into that?

If no new lessee signs on, the property will be taken from veterans use and given to the General Services Administration. The GSA will do what it wants with it.

Eric said he has read a lot of what I have online about the Ft. Howard fiasco, as have other VA employees, but they do nothing about it. They do not act on the factual info, nor say it ain't so.

Now you see why I haven't been able to deal with this for a month.

Message Repeatedly Sent To VA About Ft. Howard

On Sept. 27, 2018 the Secretary of Veterans Affairs held an online State of the VA Town Hall Meeting for three hours. During that time, they accepted questions online. I sent in the following message approximately 15 times:

Please help save Maryland's Ft. Howard VA for vets uses? Vets' lives could be bettered and some saved by a promised vets community on the former Fort Howard VA Hospital grounds. The GSA is about to take Ft Howard from the Vets, due to the VA signing leases with two separate con men - John Infantino then Tim Munshell. The leases were part of scams by those con artists. Munshell and Infantino owe millions of dollars to private companies who worked on the project and have cost the VA millions of dollars. 

Web search John Infantino and Tim Munshell, plus my screen name ursusdave, to locate the results of over 1,000 hours of my work on this terrible fiasco. Or go to: https://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/search?q=fort+howard

I have not received a reply.

Motion for Order Approving the Sale of Substantially All Assets of Fort Howard Development LLC.

Does Tim Munshell still hold the lease to the Ft. Howard VAMC property? He sure-as-hell ain't ever gonna build anything there. He and his Ft Howard Development LLC are bankrupt. 

I have tried to contact the correct VA office to ask about the lease. I have looked all over the Department of Veterans Affairs website - and called the VA's 800 number - for contact info to their Office of Asset Enterprise Management OAEM), the Capital Asset Management Service (CAMS), which I understand handles VA properties. Can't locate any contact info for them. The 800 operator could not suggest any other VA office to contact about VA properties.

Timothy Stewart Munshell has always been morally bankrupt. Everything he has done concerning the former Fort Howard VA Hospital property is a scam.

Motion for Order Approving the Sale of Substantially All Assets of Fort Howard Development LLC (though no assets exist nor have there ever been any):

Court System: Circuit Court for Baltimore County - Civil System Case Number: 03C18001606 Title: In The Matter of: Far Hydrant L L C Case Type: Other Civil Ex ParteFiling Date:02/15/2018 Case Status: Open/Active Doc No./Seq No.: 60/0
File Date:	08/15/2018Entered Date:08/20/2018Decision:
Document Name:	Proof of Claim Against Receivership Debtor Ft Howard Development LLC *

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Doc No./Seq No.:	61/0
File Date:	08/22/2018Entered Date:08/24/2018Decision:
Party Type:	ReceiverParty No.:1
Document Name:	Motion for Order Approving the Sale of Substantially All Assets of Fort Howard
	Development LLC. *

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Doc No./Seq No.:	62/0
File Date:	08/22/2018Entered Date:08/24/2018Decision:
Party Type:	ReceiverParty No.:1
Document Name:	Request for Hearing*

Penniless Munshell as Ft Howard Development LLC Sued for $296.94

Ft. Howard VA property lease holder Tim Munshell - as his Ft Howard Development LLC - is being sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars for unpaid work others did on Munshell's faked development project that is supposed to create a "veterans focused" community on Maryland's former Ft. Howard VA Hospital grounds. 

So far as I can find, he is not being sued by other people he scammed by using his fake Fort Howard project to convince people he is going to make a lot of money developing the property. 

Timothy Stewart Munshell also owes Baltimore County a lot of money for fines. 

His scam cost the VA: lost rent; unpaid electric bill; legal funds for dealing with the project and Munshell's lies; millions of dollars in damages from arsons along with other vandalism; failure to perform upgrades; neglect of the Ft. Howard property. And more. 

Munshell has begun bankruptcy proceedings, and a trial before the U S Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland is scheduled for August 21, 2018.

Munshell is so damned broke he is also being sued in Montgomery County for the meager amount of $296.94, and that trial is set for August 15, 2018 at 1 pm. 

Court System:

DISTRICT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY - CIVIL SYSTEM

Case Number:	060100089902018Claim Type:CONTRACT
District/Location Codes:	06 / 01Filing Date:05/15/2018Case Status:ACTIVE

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Scheduled Events/Trial Information

Date:	08/15/2018Time:01:00 PMRoom:611
Location:	191 EAST JEFFERSON STREET ROCKVILLE 20850-2325

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Complaint, Judgment, and Related Persons Information

(Each Complaint, Hearing, Judgment is listed separately, along with each Related Person)

Complaint Information

Complaint No:	001(MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND) Vs:(FT HOWARD DEVELOPMENT LLC )
Type:	REGULAR CLAIM
Complaint Status:	ACTIVE
Status Date:	05/16/2018Filing Date:05/15/2018Amount$296.94Last Activity Date:05/16/2018

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Related Person Information

Name:	STONER, TAMARA A.
Connection to Complaint:	ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

Address:	101 MONROE ST., 3RD FLR.
City:	ROCKVILLEState:MDZip Code:20850

If Person is Attorney: Attorney Code:010217Attorney's Firm:OFC/COUNTY ATT MONTG CO.

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Name:	FT HOWARD DEVELOPMENT LLC
Connection to Complaint:	DEFENDANT

Address:	SERVE ON: DAVID L. WOODY
Address:	10721 WAYFARER ROAD
City:	GERMANTOWNState:MDZip Code:20876

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Name:	MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND
Connection to Complaint:	PLAINTIFF

Address:	101 MONROE STREET
City:	ROCKVILLEState:MDZip Code:20850

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Case History Information

(Each Event listed for the case is listed below in chronological order)

Type:	INITIAL CASE FILINGComplaint No.:
Date:	05/15/2018Comment:INITIAL AFFIDAVIT CASE FILING

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Type:	TRIALComplaint No.:
Date:	05/16/2018Comment:TRIAL SET FOR: 08152018;TIME: 0100P;LOC:01;ROOM:611

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Type:	NOTICE SENTComplaint No.:001
Date:	05/16/2018Comment:NOTICE OF INITIAL TRIAL (ATP)-D1