Doucette in jail on $1 million bail

[kernwatch]

Doucette in jail on $1 million bail

On Tuesday, March 13 Jessica Doucette was scheduled in Housing Court at 2 PM for her now 46 court cases. I just learned that she is now in jail on $1 million in bail. Her next court hearing on all 46 cases is March 19 at 2 PM.

This is the East Coast Capital (ECC) / Doucette mortgage-flipping scam that the Mayor's Anti-Flipping Task-Force (AFTF) won't talk about.

Basically ECC flipped 60 houses to Doucette having a paper value of $3 million & ECC mortgages also totaling $3 million, with a very big "but".

Merely 23 years old at the time, Doucette "bought" 34 of the houses (paper value exceeding $1.5 million) in one week (10/31-11-4/05) from now-defunct ECC. Purchased cheaply in foreclosure, ECC jacked up their paper value, then provided inflated high interest mortgages for the same amount.

For example, ECC flipped 156 Normal, which they purchased several months earlier for $10K, to Doucette for $54K on 11/1/05. And they gave her a $54K mortgage. Now the house is a dangerous & open burned-out shell from a Thanksgiving Day fire, which damaged the vacant house next door.

But Doucette was not alone, her bother Joshua served as property manager & her Rochester-realtor-mother Elizabeth served as "adviser". It was the Mother's "Homestar Realty" sign on the Doucette's now-closed Bailey Avenue office.

The Doucette's met the NYC investor group led by Moshe Friedlander, a close collaborator with ECC, at the 2004 In-rem auction. They later discussed strategy with Friedlander, who has purchased 100's of Buffalo houses, which are concentrated on the West Side.

Requiring no cash, ECC apparently even gave Doucette rehab stipends for the houses, in return for high interest monthly mortgage payments to repay the mortgage notes held by NYC investors . . as ECC apparently pocketed the difference.

The plan was apparently to refinance the "rehabbed" houses at even higher paper values in 2 -3 years & continue the charade. But with many of the houses unfit for occupancy, Doucette quickly fell behind on the exorbinant mortgage payments to ECC. The house of cards collapsed. ECC disappeared when the NYC investors in the mortgages demanded their money. Then Doucette shut off her phones, closed her Bailey Avenue office, and refused to appear in Housing Court.

Sadly, because of AFTF's "secrecy" policy & refusal to even return phone calls, nothing about this latest devastating twist in mortgage scams that will impact dozens of struggling neighborhoods has ever been publicly addressed.

Incredibly, a multi-million mortgage scam has never even been mentioned in the media.

Dick Kern (in Mpls)

COPY: The houses whose futures are in jeopardy

http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/applicat...ropsearch.aspx

SBL House Number Street Primary Owner
1332400008035000 350 ABBOTT DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0902400007001000 467 AMHERST EAST DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0882600003035000 75 CLAY DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1333100005014000 55 COMO DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0907400004046000 151 COURTLAND DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0798100008014000 353 DARTMOUTH DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0882500007028000 373 DEARBORN DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0906400004045000 96 DORRIS DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0894300002009000 32 GREENFIELD DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0882500005053000 7 GUERNSEY DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0796300006003000 45 NORTHRUP PL DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0903100004005000 88 PARKRIDGE DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1332600002017000 38 PARKVIEW DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0886700001068000 54 POOLEY DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1015800004068000 77 POPLAR DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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1102700005006000 382 PROSPECT DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1233400004006000 34 PULASKI DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0775600002036000 88 ROYAL DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0798000002020000 237 SHIRLEY DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0798200001005000 435 SHIRLEY DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1014200003011000 172 SPRENGER DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0902400002022000 313 STOCKBRIDGE DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
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0995100005007000 590 UTICA WEST DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0995200003017000 404 VERMONT DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0995200005004000 445 VERMONT DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1235000001049000 139 WEIMAR DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0996700003023000 507 WEST DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0888200008015000 1144 WEST DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
0886600001013000 1328 WEST DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1017300005020000 21 WOOD DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information
1238100008001000 11 YALE DOUCETTE JESSICA View Information

0902500005019000 1186 KENSINGTON JD REALTY AND MANAGEMENT INC View Information
0775900002014000 42 RACE JD REALTY AND MANAGEMENT INC View Information

[therising]

I'll bet I'd get a lower bail if I killed someone. Pretty harsh.

[kernwatch]

Here is a (non) response) from AFTF on the Doucette incarceration & $1 million bail on her 60 flipped houses having a paper value of $3 million. This bureaucrat-speak rings especially hollow to me, having been repeatedly prosecuted by "law enforcement" when I exposed housing scams in the past.

I finally left Bflo when BMHA Commissioner Charlie Flynn attempted to run me down with his car outside a BMHA Board meeting, where an incredible "ban" on my attending their public meetings had finally been lifted.

I had exposed then County Independence Party Chair Flynn's Parlato-style HUD-FHA flip scam in January 2001, only to be prosecuted by DA Frank J Clark III for the next 4 years on Flynn's perjured charges, with assisitance from BMHA, whose waste & corruption I had long criticized.

Ms Lynch is a suburb-dwelling lawyer who has never spoken to me & shows little sympathy for the struggling neighborhoods fighting housing scams.

Dick Kern (in Mpls)

COPY:

http://wnymedia.net/

Anti Flipping Task Force Still Quiet on Doucette Arrest
Local News
Written by Buffalowatchdog
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Buffalo, NY - A statement was requested by WNYM today from Kathleen Lynch, Co-ordinator of the Anti Flipping Task Force in Buffalo. Here was the response they sent back:

The AFTF applauds the work of city inspectors and prosecutors in pursuing cases against individuals and companies that violate city codes and allow hazardous conditions to exist in Buffalo communities.

In general, is important to understand that while the AFTF is steadily and actively working on cases that involve flipping, we cannot jeopardize our relationship with law enforcement partners by commenting on particular cases or investigations unless invited by them to do so. Otherwise, our comments could have the unintended consequence of undermining or compromising an investigation.

We appreciate your understanding of this sensitive role that the AFTF plays in our collective effort to protect the City of Buffalo against fraudulent flippers.

If you would like to learn more about the AFTF project, please attend ourcommunity forum on March 24th at the Langston Hughes Institute.

[cobruce]

Dick, I always admired your stance when you were in Buffalo. You never backed down. Way to go!!

[joe d.]

DICK..COME BACK TO BUFFALO... MAYOR BROWN could use you on his staff to MONITOR the HOUSING FIASCO in the City. ....after all , they found a do nothing job for COPOLLA...just when I thought BB was gonna be different. SAME OL' SAME OL!! ALL these college degreed , TALENTED young people leaving Buffalo and they find a job for A POLITICAL HACK who's shelf life expired years ago!!
WAY TO GO !!!BYRON

[Surfing USA]

Jessica Doucette wouldn't happen to be a friend of the Clintons, would she?

Is she an avid "Whitewater" rafter?

[kernwatch]

It could go down as an example of Bflo's own "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" . . . .

Jessica Doucette is back in Housing Court today (Mon, 3/19, 2PM) on her 46 Housing Court cases & $1 million bail on her 60 flipped-mortgage-scammed houses. Incredibly, 34 of her houses (one now a burned out shell at 156 Normal Ave which fire-damaged the vacant house next door in a Thanksgiving Day fire) were 'purchased' in one week by then 23 years-old Doucette from oft-prosecuted, now defunct NYC-based East Coast Capital (10/31-11/4/05) with ‘no money down’.

Hopefully the media will finally report on the major new mortgage flip-scam, which has occurred in its entirety since the Mayor's Anti-Flipping Task-Force(AFTF) promised high tech data collection & analysis of housing scams. Whether or not that data evaluation by Hilbert College, promised in June 2005 press release, has ever occurred is not known. No sign of it has ever been reported.

There is actually far less housing data publicly accessible today than before AFTF was formed. Below is the (non) response of AFTF coordinator Kathleen Lynch Esq. to a request for information on March 15 by WNYMedia.net. Lynch has never responded to an email or returned a voice mail message requesting information.

In addition, activists perceived as less “dangerous” (more politically correct?) than I am keep information they have “secret” out of fear they will be ‘frozen out’ of AFTF’s inner-circle. Here is the response from a high profile "housing official", WS Housing Court Liaison & chief-apologist for AFTF:

Dick,

The inspections department, housing court, and members of the AFTF had
Doucette long before you did. way to be late for the party one again.

(signed) Harvey (Garrett)

Lynch’s, Garrett's & AFTF's attitude epitomize “secret, unaccountable government”, as Byron Brown is promising "open transparency", the polar opposite.

The neighbors of those 60 Doucette mortgage-flip-scammed houses are unaware they live by crime scenes, a secret kept by an agency of city government, which is likely to further devastate their neighborhoods.

Dick Kern (in Mpls)

COPY:

Buffalo, NY - A statement was requested by WNYM today from Kathleen Lynch, Co-ordinator of the Anti Flipping Task Force in Buffalo. Here was the response they sent back:

” The AFTF applauds the work of city inspectors and prosecutors in pursuing cases against individuals and companies that violate city codes and allow hazardous conditions to exist in Buffalo communities.

In general, is important to understand that while the AFTF is steadily and actively working on cases that involve flipping, we cannot jeopardize our relationship with law enforcement partners by commenting on particular cases or investigations unless invited by them to do so. Otherwise, our comments could have the unintended consequence of undermining or compromising an investigation.

We appreciate your understanding of this sensitive role that the AFTF plays in our collective effort to protect the City of Buffalo against fraudulent flippers.

If you would like to learn more about the AFTF project, please attend ourcommunity forum on March 24th at the Langston Hughes Institute.”