Below is a story from the Ulster County Press about a woman who lost everything she owned, her home and over a million dollars in priceless possessions because of incompetence on the part of the office of the Ulster County Clerk.
Pretty much while this poor woman in Stone Ridge was away taking care of her dying husband, the county clerk's office kept sending the tax bills and foreclosure notices to the wrong address and that mail was returned to the County Clerk's office.
The County Clerk's office didn't acknowledge that the mail was being returned to them and let the house be foreclosed and sold.
When the woman returned to her home after her husbands death, she found it had been sold and her contents sold.
After it was all sorted out, it was found that the mail was being returned to the County Clerk's office because they had the WRONG address.
The woman has prevailed in Court and the court has "given" her the house back, but all of her possessions and antiques are gone. She has tracked many of them down through some not so reputable dealers.
Although she has prevailed in court, she still doesn't have her house back because the County doesn't have a mechanism to give it back to her. It was sold to someone else.
Depositions have been taken in court and certain people in the County Clerk's office and Treasurer's office are saying that they "don't know" certain people that we all know that they know because their spouses are in business with them.
It is a huge mess and this poor woman in Stone Ridge is getting screwed left and right by everyone in the County. She is rightly really really upset and is suing the County and is NOT interested in settling.
Mrs. Postupack needs to publicly address this and resign her office immediately.
UC PRESS STORY CLICK HERE
ANTIQUE DIGEST STORY CLICK HERE
24 comments:
Wow! Incompetence simply doesn't cover for this one. This was a deliberate theft by the Postupak clan. I can't imagine anyone even considering this woman for this position any longer. Will the Republicans drop her or will they condone such sleazy behavior? I know they hate "transplants" and probably would all do the same if they thought they could get away with it. I feel sick thinking that I may have voted for this person. Behavior like this has no place in public service.
Lew Kirschner is involved, be honest.
"Although she has prevailed in court"
Please point out where you get this info. The last thing I see is where it sets a 2/27/09 date for motions.
Nice character assassination jeremy. Why is postupack the only one mentioned? The addresses were supplied to her by the county treasurer,Kirschner, and the deputy treasurer Hein. I noticed that you excluded the dates, so no one would know that it occured on the Hein watch, while Lew was sunbathing in Florida. Also, it appears you left out the fact that the property was sold to a good friend of Kirschner, and that it was those folks who sold off the antiques.
You just cant help yourself, can you. If you are going to insist on resignations, how about Hein, and the county attorney?? How about the legisltors who are democrats, who also knew about this shady deal.??
You are a hypocrit!!!!
Tax Bills are sent by the TREASURER'S Office, not the Clerk's Office.
This is a blunder by Kirschner and Hein, not Nina Postupack.
I would like to know.... did she actually not pay her taxes?? None of these articles are clear on that. If she paid her taxes and they wrongfully forclosed on her then heads should roll. In this case it would mean a box of pink slips showing up on Fair St.
But if she did not pay her taxes in the first place, then I do not feel bad for her. Tax Forclosure is not an overnight process and usually takes years of not paying property taxes before they foreclose. Whether you got your notice or not.... every idiot on this earth knows that their are two constants in life. Taxes and Death.
It is very common for people to up and abandon their property and everything in it. I saw it many times when I used to do Bank Foreclosure inspections.
Kirshner is retired. Hein runs in 2011. Postupack is running in 2009. Unless you want to name names of Legislators involved, she is the only one to be judged by the voters this year. Unfair yes. But so is politics.
Check the depositions. And see who they asked knew if she knew.
We all knows that she knows him and his last name begins with H
Fudging the truth under oath is not right
She should resign and so should Hein. Lew obviously resigned alread because at least HE was smart enough to the see the writing on the wall.
Wasn't everyone a little surprised when Lew reisgned out of the blue like that? Well now you know why he resigned and Nina and Mike should follow
It seems this woman failed to pay her taxes for years. Hmmm. Who's at fault.
Nina did not do anything wrong. This is a false attack.
The Treasurer's Office goofed up the address. The Clerk has nothing to do with it.
You better hope Nina does not do a Sottile and hire a lawyer. You could be in serious legal trouble.
Bring it on 11:16, let's air this out. The lady from Stone Ridge deserves this much.
If Nina did nothing wrong, then why is NAMED in the lawsuit?
Didn't pay her taxes for years. In this day and age that isn't important. It must still be someone else's fault. We don't go in for that Personal Responsibility talk around here
One thing is clear, Postupak had the current address of the owner and chose not to contact them. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that her character is beneath contempt. I hope everybody connected to this scam gets what they have coming. The State Police are involved in the recovery and they wouldn't be if the circumstances were just a legitimate tax sale. This woman should resign immediately and anyone who thinks otherwise should do some serious reflecting on their complete lack of ethics. If Hein was involved, let him hang for it. This conduct is simply indefensible. From the responses here on this board it's still the Republicans' values of lying, cheating, and stealing that rule the day. Well the day is soon to be over.
2:57-It was the personal responsibility of the county clerk to collect the taxes. She abdicated in favor of foreclosure. If you aren't billed for something do you still try to pay? I doubt it. Especially without a tax bill # to respond to. You can't pay. This woman is toast along with every other pencil pushing dweeb that went along with her.
She had multiple properties.
I have not spoke to this woman, but in my opinion she probably though when she paid one she had paid all? Or maybe the clerk's office lost them.
She was going to the worst experience of her life - her husband dying. Can anyone blame a woman for that?
Why when UC got the certified mail that they sent to her RETURNED did they not reach out to her at her other addresses?
Hey 9:29,
Does it have 4 letters and end in T?
3:50:
I wouldn't write the check without a bill. But I would damn sure be making some phone calls to find out where my bill was. Especially since all that is needed to foreclose on my house is a public notice in the Freeman which no one including me reads anyway.
Which begs the next question, how many years of back taxes did she owe. I would bet my heavily mortgaged and taxed house that it was two or more years of back taxes.
P.S: Who here gets their tax bill from from the "County Clerk"? I don't know about you but my tax bill comes from the Town I live in in which my county taxes are included. And if I don't pay, then it is(was) the County Treasurer that puts the Public Forclosure notice in the Paper. I didn't know that County Clerk had any part in this process.
If you paid your taxes, the gubbment won't forclose.
Jeremy, you are a liberal partisan hack who is paid to promote communism.
Newt G.
Lets see Lew is gone you want Nina to resign. Does Hein get a free ride . be fair Jeremy say that Hein must resign NOW save the democratic party the embarassment. Maybe the Comptroller should look at this or even the State Attorney General, but they are all Dems. Circle the wagons
GEEZ COULD 12:28 BE NONE OTHER THAN THE BIG SCHMUCK HIMSELF CALLING JEREMY SUCH FAMILIAR SOUNDING DIRT FROM HIS DIRTPILE OF A MIND. TWO WORDS IN ONE SENTENCE 'HACK' AND 'COMMUNIST' CAN ONLY BE BIG MIKEY B THE DIPSHOT SLIPSHOD DEEPSTUCK IN HIS OWN MUD CRETIN--EXCUSE ME THREE WORDS, I FORGOT THE 'L' WORD YA LIBERAL BASSTAD FROM THE GUY WHO NEVER GOT THE POIPLE HAART AFTER HAVING A ROCK FALL ON HIS HAND AND HE BROKE TWO FENGAZ IN VIET NAM.
YOU ARE NOT AS MUCH A NEWT G--MAYBE A NEWT LIZARD CHAMELEON FREE HOLE ASSWIPE PIECE OF CRAP ALL ROLLED UP INTO A BALL OF HOLY SHEET LIKE A CLANSMAN FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.
Little Paulie Man, yes, I am a lifelong member of the KKK.
For my God...
For my Country....
Newt G.
To 12:21:
Nice try but you're full of it because I can see that your handwriting is different, Newt g or NUT J, the 3K's mean:
KREEPS
KOOKS
KWEERS
Groups like the KKK are what keep America behind the threshold of decency and reality with hatred and the expression of it as their credo. The paradox of having such types alive in 2009 is so 16th century. How proud can we be to have backwoods morons spewing such vile bile giving us a bad rap? When they get to meet their maker the odds are that they're going straight to the hotspot if that's what our eschatological mentors have us believe. Why do you burn the cross anyway? Get off it you can’t be Newt and Mike under the pseudonym because they don’t accept people in the clan that are “lonsmen.” It ain’t for decent folk--only for haters with IQ’s equal to the number of teeth in the mouths of any couple in the whole family who still need to be in their personal version of “Deliverance” in their hillbilly heaven with banjo-playing, moonshine-making, corn whiskey guzzling goofballs awaitin’ on somebody to give the call to start their revolution to turn America into a state of hate, with killin’ and robbin’ and hangin’s and anarchy. Good luck Mikey B if you are Newt G, Kenny G, Joey D, Jay Z or Omega-3, if you get my D. little paulie k
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I hear Nina has an extra set of nipples?
Roger Grimsby
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