A change in design allegedly led to the collapse of the 10-story high Tropicano Casino and Resort parking garage in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on October 31, 2003, according to an article by reporter Eric Lipton published in The New York Times edition of April 25, 2004.

When you try to link to this article, you may find that access to it is forbidden.  Therefore, the www.billybytes.com/blog/ is quoting the applicable paragraph from the link, as follows:

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The bilking of octogenarians Anna Mae Kessler, formerly a resident of Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Alice Mae Kitchen of Hainesburg Village, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, came at the hands, respectively, of Northampton County Court of Common Pleas in Easton, Pennsylvania, and of Warren County Surrogate Court in Belvidere, New Jersey - examples of today’s The New York Times article titled “Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist.”

The purpose of this post is to verity the fact that Donna Taggart Associates is an integral part of the development team involved in the “taking” of private property - at least 33 such properties - in the floodplain of the Bushkill Creek Corridor between Easton, Pennsylvania’s N. 13th St. and Larry Holmes Drive to the east inclusive of much of Bushkill Drive, Snyder and N. Green streets, and Nevin Terrace.

The City of Easton acting through its Redevelopment Authority as agent is “taking” the privately owned properties - at least 33 - under the threat of eminent domain, and, in so doing, is acting on behalf of Lafayette College and its plan to develop a new urban center known as Bushkill Village beneath the precipitously steep slopes on which the main Lafayette College campus precariously teeters and in the Bushkill Creek and Delaware River floodplain.

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No fewer than 550 acres of the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s 1800-acre tract was sold by the International Steel Group of billionaire entrepreneur Wilbur Ross to Los Angeles-based Majestic Realty Company in a deal negotiated by Bethlehem City Council President J. Michael Schweder and Lehigh and Northampton counties’ State Representative (and chairman of the state’s Democratic Party Committee) T.J. Rooney, who has since left his elective position as a Harriburg, the state’s capital, lobbyist.

Majestic Realty owns the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas, and its newly acquired site in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem may be targeted for more casino development, in addition to the Sands BethWorks LLC, of which Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania, Attorney Michael Perrucci is a principal.

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The Billy Bytes Blog scooped The Excess-Times (kisses officialdom’s ass to excess at all times) and its pimp reporter to officialdom’s johns (including, literally, Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan) Kurt Bresswein.

The latest Billy Bytes post hit the Internet ether at 12:11 a.m. this morning, whereas procurer Bresswein’s article didn’t hit the newsstands until much later this morning.

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Reporter Kurt Bresswein is The Express-Times’s pimp for johns like Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP) Inc. President Kerry Wrobel.

Wroebel is hooked in with all kinds of unsavory characters.  One of these is R. Chadwick Paul Jr., chief executive officer of the Northeaston Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

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The Express-Times lay in wait to pounce on my May 4, 2007, blog posting, titled “$111 Million (Actually, $222 Million) Fraud,” in reporter Kurt Bresswein’s article, Lesson in development success steps away,” dated May 6, 2007, only two days after my blog posting of Friday, May 4, 2007.

Specifically, The Express-Times’s article responds to my allegation that “This toxic property [meaning the 1600- to 1800-acre former Bethlehem Steel Corporation property] remains an unremediated Superfund site.”

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Lafayette College President Arthur J. Rothkopf is an adept aviator. He learned to fly as a Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him to the job.

Upon Bush’s November 1992 defeat at the hands of Bill Clinton, Bush dispatched Rothkopf to Lafayette College as its president (Rothkopf was an alumnus of the the class of 1955) to lay groundwork for the Presidential election of 1996, who turned out be Senator Bob Dole, of course, who, upon his failed run, was hired by Pfizer to hawk Viagra.

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Yesterday’s edition of The Morning Call published an article titled “ArtsQuest asks county for stacks of cash.”

Northampton County-beat report Joe Nixon used “stacks” as a play on words for “SteelStax,” a Sands (casino) BethWorks LLC (limited liability corporation) development project in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Following is the article by The Morning Call reporter Scott Kraus describing the fraud involving Northampton County Council President J. Michael Dowd, who also represents District 2 including Northampton County’s seat Easton; Dowd’s fellow council members; council’s solicitor Brian Monahan, Esq.; the Executive Glenn Reibmann administration; and the county’s General Purpose Authority in defrauding the taxpayers of Northampton County - a fraud perpetrated at the Northampton County Council meeting of March 7, 2002:

“As expected, Northampton County Council solicitor Brain Monhahan has given his stamp of approal to changes proposed for the county’ General Purpose Authority.

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