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Monday, September 01, 2008

Whatcha gonna do?

☛ TS Diesel spill nets landowner huge fine
The county has fined the owner of the Southern Humboldt County property fouled by a major diesel spill $215,000 on top of the $200,000 it took to clean it up, and criminal or civil charges are reportedly being considered as well.

Exercising its administrative enforcement authority, the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Service's Environmental Health Division directed Albert Tordjman -- a chef now apparently living in Thailand -- to correct the numerous violations stemming from an alleged pot grow. About 1,000 gallons of red dye diesel spilled from a tank on the property, into the soil, with some reaching Hacker Creek, a tributary of Salmon Creek outside Miranda.

The spill was reported to the California Department of Fish and Game on May 14. Cleanup took weeks. County Supervising Environmental Health Specialist Melissa Martel said that 80 cubic yards of soil and rock were removed by digging a trench 18 feet wide, 24 feet long and 4 to 9 feet deep. Another trench was built nearby to intercept any other diesel and capture it in absorbent pads....

...The environmental health division on Aug. 5 signed a consent decree between it and Tordjman, in which he agreed to correct the problems and pay the $215,000 fine, or be charged $505,000.

The stiff penalty is the result of increasing administrative enforcement action by the department, Martel said, since problems with chemical releases from marijuana grows continue to be a problem.

”If people just took the proper care and precautions,” Martel said, “we wouldn't be seeing the releases that we continue to see.”.... HUH?

Tordjman has been correcting the violations, Martel said, but whether the fine will be collected has yet to be seen, as the chef is still in Thailand. The property is also listed for sale.

The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board said it has been unable to serve its cleanup and abatement order dated May 23 to Tordjman. Sent repeatedly by mail to a post office box in Miranda, the order keeps being returned to the center, said water board supervising engineer Dave Evans.

”We're all wondering what's going to happen when the rains come back,” Evans said....

But Tordjman's Garberville attorney Eric Kirk said the water board can serve him with the documents, and can contact him to work out arrangements. Kirk said Tordjman has already agreed to allow access to the property for monitoring purposes

”I don't know what the issue is,” Kirk said.

It was one of the largest spills of diesel in recent memory, and Fish and Game early on expected that criminal or civil charges would be sent on to the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office for consideration.

”The case rests with the District Attorney's Office,” confirmed Fish and Game warden A.J. Bolton earlier this week.

Several calls and e-mails to District Attorney Paul Gallegos were not returned.

RELATED: ☛ Kym's series on the spill and the clean up

GOOGLING: ☛ If you want to reach Albert - he left his contact info on another blog - in case anybody's reading -Hi Jean-Georges. It's Albert Tordjman here. Wanted to get in touch. I'm currently in Thailand and thought it would be nice to catch up. Please email me at bobjohnston2000@hotmail.com (my friend's email as I am computer illiterate!)) or my thai mobile is +66 8794 16320.

He also has his own website - with some of his menus - I didn't see Diesel-Blackened Frog Legs on there. Too bad.

7 comments:

Anonymous9/01/2008 10:31 AM
It is nice to see that the county environmental health is finally doing something about dope growers and the diesel mess's they make. It has been a long time coming.

The bit about the dude being a chef in Thailand brought a big smile to my face. What a crock of shit. How can his lawyer say that kind of stuff without gagging? I wonder if the dude is hiding out or looking for little boys at Phu Ket?

Where is this guy (Mr. T.) from originally? Is he a Humboldt Native? A long time resident? Or one of those dopers that came to Humboldt to grow dope because the community allows it?

Glad to see the county is putting out some big fines. But really who can afford the $200K in clean up fees, the lawyer fees, and then the BIG fine. Where is this money coming from? What does Mr. T. do when he is in Humboldt? Just think about how much money Mr. T. had to have made growing and selling dope just to pay for the clean up costs?

This guy is a criminal and should be prosecuted. Maybe someone can turn him in to the IRS? They can flag his passport and more. I hope this financially ruins this piece of dog crap and puts him in jail for a while. Karma.
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Pogo9/01/2008 2:51 PM
I have a splendid idea on how to get gags to file on this jerk and probably get him registered as a sex offender. Put the word out that Turdman is a retired cop.
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Robin Shelley9/01/2008 3:10 PM
Google him, 10:31. Apparently, San Francisco misses him!
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Rose9/01/2008 4:32 PM
Interesting, Robin - Googling: If you want to reach Albert - he left his contact info on another blog - in case anybody's reading -Hi Jean-Georges. It's Albert Tordjman here. Wanted to get in touch. I'm currently in Thailand and thought it would be nice to catch up. Please email me at bobjohnston2000@hotmail.com (my friend's email as I am computer illiterate!)) or my thai mobile is +66 8794 16320.

He also has his own website - with some of his menus - I didn't see Diesel-Blackened Frog Legs on there. Too bad
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Anonymous9/02/2008 8:40 AM
Hey, I know, we can call that enviro guy in the DA's office, Hagen, and he can--what? He got what? By whom? What for?
How is that a good thing? Oh,
the Dear Leader? Well then,
let's all just genuflect like good little progs and let PVG be PVG.
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Anonymous9/03/2008 2:56 PM
How quickly everyone forgets...PVG FIRED Hagen a long time ago...

Anonymous from Minnesota
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Rose9/03/2008 3:04 PM
WELL, TECH-NICAL-LY... no, but...
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Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

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Monday, September 01, 2008

Whatcha gonna do?

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