#DENNIS FELCHER

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Does Anyone Know this Person?

I ran across this pic online the other day and I know this guy as chase in Jacksonville for 4 years. He's homeless, according to him, but hardly ever around. This pic was taken at Residence Inn where I have stayed many times. I can tell by the coverlet. Its obviously posed AND PROBABLY POSTED ONLINE WITH THE ABUSERS HACKERS WHO I AM SURE, MADE SURE THAT I WOULD SEE IT. Could this be my long lost cousin Greg Katz backside? He is the son of the venerable Dr. Richard Katz of Ballenisles country club in illustrious palm beach gardens Florida. Or.... Could it be someone who is around Dennis Felcher. or Miss Todd Olivieri in South Florida or NY? How about anyone around David kaufman in NY who at one time resided in Brooklyn on Quentin road. Davids glamorous mother is Sarah Kaufman who always wore a big round diamond on her hand and probably the most beautiful diamond wedding band, all long rectangle diamonds all the way around set in platinum, of course, that I have ever seen in my life. Has anyone seen this person around David or his well tar do sister Allison Kaufman? Maybe this is her, uh, Assistant?? Delicious Allison Kaufman is like the girl next door who collects rent from tenants with a baseball bat in her Louis Vuitton handbag. She is so adorable you want to squeeze her cheeks. Not her fanny of course she's a traditional young lady. Yes indeed. She's Daddy's little Gurl!! I heard she is the real estate queen of Tudor City in NYC. She is most definitely a proper young woman but how proper? Her brother David is a formidable guy once he finally finishes brushing his hair. I heard He is well hung. Brooklyn's 11 inch pride and joy! He's a real stunner David. Just ask any doorman in Tudor city! I think he went to Yeshiva. Has anyone seen the guy pictured below around any of the people mentioned in this post or around Nathan James Smith my ex? As far as I know Sarah and Seymour Kaufman have one son and one daughter. David and Allison. Maybe they dropped David on his head. Who doesn't call back or check on their younger cousin?? Dunce... what .. do I have to rim this guy to get a call back? Isn't it all very convenient? I guess if I don't speak with them they can say that and maybe escape blame for not telling me something??

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KEY WEST FLORIDA

IF ANYONE READING THIS KNOWS ANYONE WHO RESIDED IN KEY WEST IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND EARLY SEVENTIES I WONDER IF THEY EVER HEARD ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT ANY PLANS TO STEAL INHERITANCES FROM DENNIS FELCHER’S KIDS OR ANY PLANS TO DRIVE THEM CRAZY OR CAUSE THEIR DEATH?

AT TIMES THESE MORONS DOING THIS BOMBARDMENT OF INFLAMMATORY SPOKEN DIALOGUE THRU NEARBY SPEAKERS AS IN RIGHT NOW WILL GO ON AND ON UNTIL THEY CAN GET A HEATED REACTION OUT OF ME AND THEY WON’T STOP UNTIL THEY DO.  IT IS LITERALLY TRYING TO DRIVE SOMEONE CRAZY EVEN IF JUST TEMPORARILY TO IN FACT GET A HEATED REACTION OUT OF THEM.  THEN I SUSPECT WHOEVER THE SHMUCK IS OR THE ONE BEHIND IT GOES AROUND ASSERTING THAT WHOEVER THEY OR SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING IT TO IS CRAZY.  IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF, AT TIMES, I HEAR ONE THING AND ANYONE WHO CAN LISTEN HEARS SOMETHING ELSE IF ANYTHING AT ALL.  IF YOU WEREN’T HALF CRAZY BY THE TIME  YOU TRIED TO EXPLAN THIS TO SOMEONE THERES PROBABLY A GOOD CHANCE THAT THEY WOULD THINK YOU ARE.  I THINK THIS IS ALL ON PURPOSE.  IT IS SO INVOLVED AND SO OUT OF THE ORDINARY IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN WHAT IS GOING ON AND TO FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF.  IN ADDITION, I SUSPECT THAT THE ABUSERS WILL INVENT NONSENSE, USE VOICE CLONE APPS TO INVENT STATEMENTS OR ADD A WORD OR TWO TO ANYTHING EVER SAID ALL TO EITHER DISCREDIT THE SUBJECT OR TO CAUSE OTHERS TO BE ANGRY... SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

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I HAVE NOT SPOKEN WITH MY FATHER DENNIS FELCHER IN PERSON IN 4 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS AND HAVEN’T SPENT A HOLIDAY WITH HIM IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS.

WHILE THIS IS JUST FINE WITH ME AND I AM IN PART RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS AS WELL I THINK IT ILLUSTRATES SOMETHING.  POSSIBLY A PERSON WHO DOESN’T WANT TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR THIS OR THINKS THAT HE CAN HIDE ANY INVOLVEMENT HE MAY HAVE AND IF SO WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO DO THAT?  IRONICALLY I RECEIVED A CALL ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO AND HIS CELL PHONE NUMBER SHOWED UP ON MY PHONE.  I ANSWERED THE CALL AND IT WAS SOMEONE WHO SOUNDED LIKE AND REPRESENTED THEMSELVES AS ELLA FELCHER.  ELLA AND I NEVER SPEAK WITH EACH OTHER ALTHOUGH I WONDERED ATLEAST ONE TIME IF SHE WAS INSIDE OF MY HOME WHILE SOME PEOPLE WERE OVER AS A GUEST OF ANOTHER GUEST.  I HAVEN’T HAD ANY INVOLVEMENT WITH HER NOR HAVE I SPOKEN WITH HER IN OVER 30 YEARS NOW.  I CAN’T THINK OF ANY REASON WHY ANYONE WOULD CALL ME AND ASSERT THEY WERE HER AND THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.  I ONLY SPOKE WITH HER FOR MAYBE 45-60 SECONDS AND THAT WAS IT.  THE CALLER DID NOT SAY THAT ANYTHING WAS WRONG OR HAD HAPPENED.  IT WAS ACTUALLY A  VERY STRANGE CALL AND THE CALL CAME IN JUST AS I WAS WALKING INTO BRANDSMART IN DANIA POINT IN DANIA BEACH/HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA 3-4 MONTHS AGO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.  TODAYS DATE 02-21-2023.  

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SOMETHING DENNIS HAS NEVER SEEN OR HEARD BEFORE.  SHMUCK.

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DEATH THREATS AND GASSING

THE PAST 4-5 DAYS I HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO DEATH THREATS AND HAVE BEEN GASSED WHICH THIS TIME MADE MY ARMS AND LEGS ITCH UNTIL I WASHED THEM DOWN WITH WATER.  I AM AS CERTAIN AS I CAN BE THAT THIS GOES BACK TO ASSETS FOR MY BENEFIT GOING BACK TO WHEN I WAS A KID THAT WERE NEVER DISCLOSED TO ME.  I CAN’T HELP BUT BLAME MY FATHERS WIFE ELLA OLIVIERI FELCHER WHO I THINK IS THE BIGGEST PAIN IN THE ASS AND A WRETCHED OLD HAG.  I CALL HER A WICKED WITCH ALL THE TIME.  I HAVE HEARD A FEW PEOPLE CALL HER HOLLYWOODS FAVORITE HOMEWRECKER!  THIS GROUP OF MORONS THAT STALK AND CYBERSTALK THEIR SUBJECT IN ADDITION TO GANG STALKING AND GASLIGHTING PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE, I BELIEVE, USES SOME OF ITS SUBJECTS AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL.  I’M PRETTY SURE THAT THEY WERE DOING SOME SORT OF THRESHOLD STUDY ON ME FOR ABOUT A WEEK TO SEE WHAT MY REACTION WOULD BE TO VARIOUS NOISE TORTURE.  SOMEHOW THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO CAUSE A VIBRATION OR RUMBLING UNDER YOUR FEET THAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED AT TIMES ON A SIDE WALK, DRIVEWAYS,  INSIDE OF A HOME OR STORE.  IT’S ABOUT A 4 SOMETIMES 5 ON A SCALE OF 1-10.  THIS CAUSES MY BLOOD PRESSURE TO SPIKE AND MY HEARTRATE TO INCREASE AS WELL.  I HAVE A FEELING THE PURPOSE FOF THAT IS TO TRY TO CAUSE SOMEONE TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK OR A STROKE.  THEY ALSO ENGAGE IN SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND SOMETIMES, LIKE LAST NIGHT, STARTED BOMBARDING ME WITH NOISE AND INFLAMMATORY SPOKEN CONTENT TO KEEP ME UP, I THINK, HOPING THAT IN KEEPING ME UP A FEW HOURS I WOULD GET UP LATER AND GET LESS DONE FOR THE DAY.  THEIR GOALS SEEM TO INCLUDE ECONOMIC TERRORISM AND ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE.  THEY ACTUALLY SAID THEY LIKE TO BANKRUPT THEIR SUBJECT SO THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO FIGHT BACK.  THE ARROGANCE IS INCREDIBLE.  THIS GROUP COULD TORTURE PEOPLE, TRY TO DEGRADE AND INSULT THEM FOR OVER AN HOUR AT A TIME AND YET THEY THINK THEY ARE ENTITLED TO RESPECT AND THAT THEIR SUBJECT SHOULD BE RESPECTFUL AND COOPERATIVE IN THEIR OWN DEMISE.  THIS GROUP HAS MADE A NUMBER OF THREATS AND I THINK THEIR REAL GOAL IS TO TAKE A PERSON DPOWN OVER TIME, CHARACTER ASSASINATION, PUSH THEIR SUBJECTS FRIENDS AWAY, DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO CAUSE WORK TO BACK UP, KILL PETS, ECONOMIC TERRORISM ALL WITH THE HOPE AND INTENTION THAT OVER A PERIOD POF TIME 2-3-4 YEARS THEY CAN MAKE THEIR SUBJECT MISERABLE ENOUGH THAT THEY CAN GET THEM TO COMMITT SUICIDE.  AS I SEE IT, THIS GOES ALONG WITH SOMETHING SAID EARLY ON ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO.  THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO CAUSE MY DEATH IN A WAY THAT AVOIDS RED FLAGS.    I AM CERTAIN THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO KILL ME OR CAUSE MY DEATH THE LAST 3-4 DAYS BUT WANT TO DO IT IN A WAY THAT IT APPEARS NATURAL SUCH AS A HEART ATTACK OR A STROKE.

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HACKING INTO GUEST COMPUTER IN LOBBY OF RESIDENCE INN HOTEL JACKSONVILLE 32204

IT IS SO OBVIOUS THAT SOMEONE IS HACKED INTO THE GUEST COMPUTER IN THE LOBBY OF THE HOTEL I AM IN.  THE USUAL NONSENSE WITH THEM TRYING TO PREVENT ME FROM POSTING SOMETHING OR DOWNLOADING ANYTHING AND PROBABLY INTERCEPTING AND/OR EDITING SOMETHING THAT I WRITE ONLINE.  EVERY TIME I GO TO DOWNLOAD A PICTURE I KEEP GETTING AN UPLOAD ERROR MESSAGE.

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DR. RICHARD B. KATZ

OLE VENERABLE DR. DICK RESIDES IN BALLENISLES COUNTRY CLUB IN PALM BEACH GARDENS FLORIDA AND PROBABLY NYC, GREENWICH OR FORT LEE, NJ. THIS IS MY UNCLE AND I THINK HE IS A DUNCE! WHAT KIND OF A DUNCE DOESN'T CALL HIS NEPHEW BACK WHO IS THE VICTIM OF ECONOMIC TERRORISM AND TERRORISM IN GENERAL INCLUDING ATTEMPTED MURDER? WHY IN THE WORLD OVER 7 YEARS WOULD HE NOT HAVE CALLED BACK? ACTUALLY I SPOKE WITH HIS WIFE NANCY J. KATZ FROM MERRILL LYNCH MAYBE 6 YEARS AGO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS AND WHILE IT WAS RELATING TO A BUSINESS MATTER AND QUESTION IT WAS GOOD TO CATCH UP. I WANTED TO SPEAK WITH MY UNCLE RICHARD AS WELL TO SAY HELLO BUT SENSED A RESISTANCE ON HER PART. I WAS BEING BOMBARDED PRETTY HARD AT THE TIME BY THE ABUSERS AND IT DID HAVE AN EFFECT ON ME AT THAT TIME MUCH MORE THEN THE LAST FEW YEARS. I THINK THEY KNEW SOMETHING AND DIDN'T TELL ME AND I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY. I HAVEN'T SEEN OR SPOKEN WITH THEM IN YEARS AND NEVER EVEN HAD AN ARGUMENT OR DISAGREEMENT WITH THEM. I TRIED SEVERAL TIMES OVER THE YEARS TO CALL THE DUNCE AND HE NEVER ANSWERS THE PHONE OR CALLS BACK AND NEITHER DOES IS SON GREGORY KATZ MY COUSIN. ANOTHER GENIUS. HE WAS SUCH A SWEET LITTLE BOY. I'M NOT TOO THRILLED WITH EITHER OF THEM. I THINK THEY KNEW I WAS BEING SPIED ON AND DIDN'T TELL ME FOR A REASON AS IT IS OBVIOUS TO ME THERE IS AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY INVOLVED. WHO GOES ALONG WITH A PLAN TO SPY ON, ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC TERRORISM INVOLVING PROPERTIES WITH FEDERAL CONTRACTS ON THEM, ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SO ON? HE HAS PLENTY OF MONEY BUT CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CALL HIS NEPHEW BACK? DR. DICK, A PALM BEACH GARDENS PHILANTHROPIST DON'T YA KNOW, HAS A NEPHEW THAT WAS ACTUALLY STARVING SOME TIMES A FEW YEARS AGO AND HOMELESS AND HE COULDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO CALL ME BACK? WHO LETS THEIR NEPHEW STARVE AND HAS THE AUDACITY TO CALL THEMSELVES A PHILANTHROPIST? A DUNCE, THAT'S WHO, AS I SEE IT. WHAT KIND OF A MORON DOES THAT? I THINK THEY KNEW THERE WAS A PLAN TO KILL ME OR CAUSE MY DEATH IN A WAY THAT AVOIDED RED FLAGS AS THREATENED EARLY ON YEARS AGO AND DIDN'T WANT TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR IT COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO TELL ME. IF ANYONE READING THIS KNOWS THEM DO YOU KNOW IF THEY EVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THIS OR ME OR KNEW ANYTHING AND MENTIONED IT TO SOMEONE AT MERRILL LYNCH IN PALM BEACH GARDENS OR PALM BEACH OFFICE TO NANCY J. KATZ? TO ANYONE WHO WORKS AT OR RESIDES IN BALLENISLES COUNTRY CLUB? AS I WRITE THIS I AM BEING BOMBARDED WITH NOISE THAT SEEMS TO BE DIRECTED STRAIGHT AT MY RIGHT EAR MAKING A STATIC LIKE NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND OF INFLAMMATORY SPOKEN CONTENT. A BIG PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME HAS REPEATEDLY INCLUDED RACIAL SLURS AND GAY BASHING ON A CONSTANT BASIS IN ADDITION TO THE USE OF VOICE CLONE APPS, AND THEY USE THE TERM BODY DOUBLE OFTEN. I BELIEVE SEVERAL PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE TERRORISM DIRECTED AT ME COULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY IN COURT AS RICO ACT AND RACKETEERING APPLY. I ACTUALLY THINK A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE INCLUDING ELLA AND DENNIS FELCHER AS WELL AS HER KIDS SHOULD BE EXECUTED AND I AM NOT KIDDING.

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Dr. Richard Katz

Ballenisles country club palm beach gardens Florida. The picture below is definitely not Richard Katz. IF YOU KNOW THE GUY IN THIS PICTURE BELOW WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE A GUY NAMED CHASE I KNOW IN JACKSONVILLE PLEASE LET ME KNOW BECAUSE I AM STARTING TO WONDER IF THERE IS MORE GOING ON. COULD THIS BE SWEET GREGORY KATZ OR SOMEONE AROUND THE KATZ' OR THE KAUFMANS OR DENNIS AND ELLA FELCHER? Notice how red his cheeks are lol? How appropriate!

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SAVED BY SOCIAL SECURITY

IN 6 MONTHS I CAN ELECT TO TAKE EARLY SOCIAL SECURITY SO ATLEAST I WON’T BE HOMELESS AND THEN HOPEFULLY, IF I HAVEN’T BY THAT TIME, CAN GET SOMETHING GOING TO MAKE MONEY AND/OR FIND A NICE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPERTY TO LIVE IN.  I HEARD THE BALLENISLES RETIREMENT HOME IS ALL BOOKED UP!  LUCKY FOR THEM!!  SO THEY TOLD ME I WILL GET $2000. PER MONTH IF I TAKE IT AT AGE 62.  I CAN’T BELIVE I AM GOING TO BE 62.  I KNOW MY DEBONAIR UNCLE RICHARD AND COUSIN GREGORY ARE GOING TO COME THROUGH AND BUY ME A TOASTER WHEN I GET MY OWN APARTMENT!  YES INDEED FOLKS.  THESE GUYS ARE THE REAL DEAL.  REAL PHILANTHROPISTS!  I’M IN AWE OF THEM!  I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS MY LIFE AFTER SACRIFICING SO MUCH AND WORKING SO HARD FOR OVER 30 YEARS BUT I’M DOING THE BEST I CAN WITH IT.  IF I CAN GET WORK THEN I WON’T HAVE TO TAKE IT AND IT WON’T MATTER.  MEANWHILE I’M HAVING A REALLY DIFFICULT TIME AND WORKING ON MY NOTES AND LAWSUIT TO SUE DENNIS FELCHER, ELLA FELCHER, TODD OLIVIWERI, ALLISON OLIVIERI AND STACY OLIVIERI FLORA.

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WHO THREATENS TO DRIVE SOMEONES FRIENDS AWAY?

THE PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TERRORISM CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME.  THESE IDIOTS GO AROUND THREATENING FRIENDS OF MINE AT TIMES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TRYING TO BRIBE THEM, LYING TO THEM AND ALL IN AN ORCHESTRATED EFFORT, AS THREATENED MANY TIMES, TO DRIVE MY FRIENDS AWAY.  IRONICALLY AND THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION I THINK EVERYTIME SOMEONE BECOMES ANGRY FOR SOME REASON  THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CAMPAIGN THEY TRY TO PUSH AWAY ANOTHER FRIEND AND I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT PERSON IS ELLA  AND I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM DIRECTED AT ME.  IT IS OBVIOUS TO ME THAT SOME SCENARIO IS SET UP IN ADVANCE TO MAKE SOMETHING LOOK A CERTAIN WAY TO JUSTIFY CERTAIN ACTIONS.  IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT WE HAVE BEEN BITTER ENEMIES FOR 30 YEARS NOW.  A CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS THOUGHT OR POSSIBLY EVEN SHOWN TO OTHERS.  IF SO YOU CAN BET WHAT REALLY GOES ON IS NOT WHAT IS TOLD OR SHARED WITH OTHERS.  THIS BS HAS GONE ON FOR NEARLY 7 YEARS THAT I AM AWARE OF AND STARTED LONG BEFORE THAT, UNKNOWN TO ME, IN LESS INTENSE WAYS.  DENNIS FELCHER AND CYNTHIA FELCHER HAVE STEADFASTLY MAINTAINED THAT THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS AND HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE AT ALL ABOUT ANY OF THIS BS DIRECTED AT ME REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOMEONE CHOOSES TO CALL IT.  IF ANYONE READING THIS DOES IN FACT KNOW THAT DENNIS FELCHER AND/OR CYNTHIA FELCHER DO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?  IT TELLS ME THAT ANYONE WHO WOULD DO THAT WERE NOT HONEST FROM THE START AND EITHER HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE OR CONCERNS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL RAMIFICATIONS FROM WHAT IS BEING DONE.  DOES ANYONE THINK THAT ANYONE BEHIND THIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME ACTUALY HAS GOOD INTENTIONS AFTER 7 YEARS DAY AND NIGHT IN BACK TO BACK SEGMENTS?  WHAT KIND OF A MORON WOULD JUST LET SOMEONE COME IN AND DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?  THE KIND THAT WILL BE THERE READY TO SAY THEY HAD NO IDEA TO TRY TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR CRIMES.  AGAIN WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT ALLOWS THIS TO GO ON FOR 7 YEARS  DENYING TO ME THAT ANYTHING AT ALL IS GOING ON?  ISN’T THAT IN FACT GASLIGHTING ITSELF RIGHT THERE. WHO OWNS ANY GROUP THAT IS PAID OR HAS TIES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN SOME WAY TO ANY CAMPAIGN OR EFFORT DIRECTED AT ME?  I GET THE FEELING THESE PIECES OF GARBAGE ARE TRYING TO SET ME UP, SPY, EDIT, MANIPULATE, PAY OTHERS TO SAY AND DO CERTAIN THINGS AT CERTAIN TIMES, AT TIMES IN AN ORCHESTRATED EFFORT TO PORTRAY ME AS SOMEONE WHO HAS SOME SORT OF MENTAL IMPAIRMENT.  I MIGHT BE PISSED OFF BUT NOT CRAZY... YET.  I CAN THINK OF ONLY ONE REASON FOR THIS AND IT COMES DOWN TO MONEY OR THE CONTROL OF IT.  IT COULD BE RELATING TO ANYTHING IRREVOKABLE WHICH IS UNKNOWN TO ME IF ANY SUCH ASSET OF ANY KIND EXISTS.  IT COULD BE RELATING TO THE DECISION MAKING AND/OR CONTROL OF AN ESTATE, OF ANY ASSETS IN TRUST, ETC.  I AM AWARE OF NO TRUSTS IN WHICH I AM ENTITLED TO ANYTHING AT ALL, TO WHICH I HAVE EVER BEEN A BENEFICIARY, I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A DIME FROM ANY TRUST... PERIOD.  THE ONLY ASSETS OR MONIES RECEIVED BY ME WAS ABOUT $75,000. A LITTLE OVER 30 YEARS AGO FROM MY GREAT UNCLE AL BERMAN IN NORTH MIAMI BEACH AND APPROXIMATELY $6000. DOLLARS ALREADY DEPOSITED INTO A PASSBOOK SAVINGS ACCOUNT AFTER MY GRANDMOTHER ADELE KAUFMAN FELCHER JACKOWITZ IN NY PASSED AWAY ABOUT 39 YEARS AGO.  THERE WERE NO ADDITIONAL BEQUESTS OF ANY KIND, NO PROPERTY, NO SHARES IN ANY TRUSTS, NOTHING AT ALL.  AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAS GONE ON OVER THE PAST 7 YEARS IT WOUD NOT SURPRISE ME IF INHERITANCES, ASSETS WERE HIDDEN SOMEHOW FROM ME ALL THESE YEARS.  IN RETROSPECT I THINK THAT IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT THERE WERE NOT INHERITANCES OR SHARES OF SOME SORT OF TRUST (ONE OR MORE) RELATING TO MY GRANDMOTHER ADELE JACKOWITZ OR MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS MAX AND FRIEDA KAUFMAN WHO RESIDED IN NY AND MIAMI BEACH AND WHO ARE OR WERE WELL KNOWN TO PERSONS AT HADDASSAH.

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JUST CURIOUS.  DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY ANESTHESIOLOGIST OR NURSE ANESTESIOLOGIST THAT HAS SPENT AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF TIME AROUND DENNIS FELCHER, ELLA FELCHER, ALLISON OLIVIERI OR TODD OLIVIERI?

IF YES, DO THEY SEEM TO HAVE ALOT MORE MONEY THAN WOULD BE REASONABLY EXPECTED?

IF YES, HAVE THEY ACQUIRED PROPERTY SOMETIME IN THE LAST 10 YEARS IN THE BAHAMAS, PALM BAY, MELBOURNE FLORIDA, PALM BEACH GARDENS OR JACKSONVILLE, PONTE VEDRA BEACH FLORIDA?

IF YES, DID THEY PAY FOR THE PROPERTY OR RECEIVE INCREDIBLE DEALS ON ALL OF THEM PAYING PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR?

IF YES, DO THEY HAPPEN TO HAVE A REAL ESTATE LICENSE OR INSURANCE LICENSE AS WELL?

THE PIECES OF GARBAGE INVOLVED IN THE TERRORISM CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME HAVE STATED A FEW TIMES THAT THEY WORK CLOSELY WITH A FEW DENTISTS AND I SUSPECT ANESTHESIOLOGISTS AS WELL.

BASED ON EVERYTHING SAID BY ONE OR MORE OF THE ABUSERS DURING THE COURSE OF THIS CAMPAIGN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS I DO NOT KNOW BUT STRONGLY SUSPECT NOW THAT SOMETHING IS BEING DONE, ADDED TO TOOTHPASTE OR MOUTHWASH TO CAUSE A PERSONS TEETH TO BECOME LOOSER OR FALL OUT.  THIS HAS HAPPENED TO A FEW PEOPLE AND I KNOW THEY ARE DOING THIS SAME TERRORISM PLAN TO SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THIS TIME.  THEY HAVE SEVERAL STALKERS STALKING PEOPLE, BREAKING INTO HOUSES, SPYING ON THEM TO LEARN PASSWORDS, PASSCODES AND THAT WOULD ENABLE THEM TO GET INTO THEIR SUBJECTS RESIDENCE UNKNOWN TO THE OWNERS.  FURTHERMORE, I SUSPECT THAT GAS IS USED TO CAUSE ANY PERSON INSIDE TO EITHER FALL ASLEEP OR TO BE IN A DEEP ENOUGH STATE OF SLEEP THAT THE ABUSERS HAVE A REASONABLE EXPECTATION ANYONE INSIDE WILL NOT WAKE UP.  I DO NOT KNOW BUT AM WONDERING IF THEN THEY HAVE A DENTIST EXTRACT A TOOTH AND, IF POSSIBLE, REPLACE IT WITH A FAKE TOOTH THAT IS PROBABLY JUST QUICKLY AND EASILY INSERTED IN ITS PLACE AND THEN A DAY OR TWO LATER ALL OF A SUDDEN THE FAKE TOOTH  CRACKS, CRUMBLES AND FALLS OUT.  THIS HAPPENED TO ME ABOUT 8 MONTHS AGO AND I COULD SEE NO REASON FOR IT.  THE TOOTH JUST LITERALLY CRUMBLED AND FELL APART AND IN RETROSPECT DID LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED IT TO LOOK.  THERE IS/WAS NO REASON FOR THIS AND OTHER THAN THE LAST YEAR IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.  I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT THE ABUSERS IN ALL THEIR WISDOM WOULD RESPOND WITH SOMETHING STUPID LIKE WELL, IF THEY EVER DID THIS OR THAT THAT COULD BE THE REASON WHY.

I WONDERED ABOUT THIS BECAUSE BASED ON WHAT WAS SAID DURING THE HARASSMENT OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT THE ABUSERS HAVE SOME SORT OF PLAN TO HAVE SOMEONE MADE UP TO LOOK LIKE THEIR SUBJECT AND TRY TO PASS THAT PERSON OFF AS THE REAL PERSON AND THEN HAVE THEM DO BANKING OR TRANSACT BUSINESS IN THEIR NAME.  I COULD ONLY SEE THIS HAPPENENING IF THE PERSON JUST PASSED AWAY OR IF THEY DIRECTED THEIR TERRORISM AT SUCH A PERSON IN AN AGGRESSIVE WAY TO RUN THEM DOWN, BEHIND AND HOPE TO DIRECT SOME SORT OF ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE AT THAT PERSON OR TRY TO TAKE DOWN A PERSONS BUSINESS OR, AND I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT TERRORISM, SOMEONE HAVING THE AUDACITY TO TRY TO HIDE A PERSONS DEATH, IF POSSIBLE, AND HAVE SOMEONE ELSE RUNNING AROUND PRETENDING TO BE THEM.  IT SEEMS LIKE A LONG SHOT TO ME BUT I WONDER IF ANYTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE?  IF THEY COULD GET SOME OF THEIR SUBJECTS TEETH INTACT AND IMPLANT THEM IN THE IMPOSTERS MOUTH WITH THE REST OF THE TEETH BEING VENEERS OR SOMETHING ELSE I WONDER IF THEY COULD HOPE TO GET AWAY WITH IT?

AGAIN, I DO NOT KNOW THIS I AM WONDERING ABOUT IT AND I THINK WITH GOOD REASON.

I WONDER HOW MANY DENTISTS PURCHASED PROPERTY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY OF THE SUSPECTED ABUSERS OR HAD SWEETHEART DEALS HANDED TO THEM?  I WONDER IF ANY OF THE ABUSERS, AS I SUSPECT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY EVER PURCHASED ANY FORMER HOME OF MINE ESPECIALLY IN JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA POSSIBLY BUYING AND SELLING THE SAME PROPERTY A FEW TIMES AND SELLING WAY UNDER MARKET AS PAYMENT FOR SOMETHING ELSE?  I WONDER IF SO IF ANY OF THESE DENTISTS KNOW, SOCIALIZE OR ARE SEEN OFTEN WITH ANY OF THE ABUSERS AND/OR DO BUSINESS OF SOME KIND WITH ANY OF THEM?

I WONDER IF ANY MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AROUND THEM INCLUDING DENTISTS, ANESHESIOLOGIST, NURSE ANESTHESIOLOGIST, NURSE, PHYSICIAN, CARDIOLOGIST, PAIN SPECIALIST, ANY PSYCHOLOGIST OR PSYCHIATRIST ESPECIALLY ANY SPECIALIZING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE ARE OR HAVE OFTEN DONE BUSINESS WITH ANY OF THE ABUSERS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, HAVE ANY REAL ESTATE OR INSURANCE LICENSES, IF APPLICABLE, HELD AT ANY FIRMS WITH TIES TO THE ABUSERS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OR EVEN IN THE SAME OFFICE BUILDING OR ONE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OWNED BY ANY OF THE BUSERS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY.

I WONDER IF ANY OF THEM HAVE PURCHASED VERY EXPENSIVE CARS FOR RIDICULOUSLY LOW PRICES OR STUMBLED ACROSS A SITUATION MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE TERRORISM CAMPAIGN DIRECTED AT ME OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WHEREBY A NEW CAR WAS SUPPOSEDLY PURCHASED BY SOMEONE AND THEN IMMEDIATELY RETURNED FOR WHATEVER REASON THUS MAKING IT THEN A USED CAR.  IF SO, THE CAR WAS THEN SOLD FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS LESS THEN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND IN SOME CASES 20, 30, 40k LESS.  IF SO WHO OWNS THE DEALERSHIP DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, MEMBER OF, TIES TO IN ANY WAY, A SUBSIDIARY, PARENT OR HOLDING COMPANY OR HAS SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT TO DO ANYTHING, PROVIDE ANY SERVICE FOR, ETC. THAT WOUKLD PUT THEM IN A POSITION TO PULL OFF SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

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BLOOD MONEY IN THE RICH, CLUBBY WORLD OF HORSEMEN, SOME GREEDY OWNERS HAVE HIRED KILLERS TO MURDER THEIR ANIMALS FOR THE INSURANCE PAYOFFS

On the rainy night of Feb. 2, 1991, in despair over the prospect of causing the death of a horse by breaking its hind leg with a crowbar, Tommy (the Sandman) Burns sat in a bar outside Gainesville, Fla., and got drunk on gin and tonic. "Really wasted," Burns recalls. "I had never done one like that before."

For a decade the cherubic 30-year-old had made a sporadic living as a hit man hired to destroy expensive horses and ponies, usually so their owners could collect on lucrative life-insurance policies. But no owner had ever ordered Burns to dispose of a horse by breaking one of its legs—that is, by causing a trauma so severe that a veterinarian would be forced to put the animal down with a lethal injection.

Burns's preferred method of killing horses was electrocution. It had been so ever since the day in 1982 when, he says, the late James Druck, an Ocala, Fla., attorney who represented insurance companies, paid him to kill the brilliant show jumper Henry the Hawk, on whose life Druck had taken out a $150,000 life-insurance policy. In fact, says Burns, Druck personally taught him how to rig the wires to electrocute Henry the Hawk: how to slice an extension cord down the middle into two strands of wire; how to attach a pair of alligator clips to the bare end of each wire; and how to attach the clips to the horse—one to its ear, the other to its rectum. All he had to do then, says Burns, was plug the cord into a standard wall socket. And step back.

"You better get out of the way," says Burns. "They go down immediately. One horse dropped so fast in the stall, he must have broken his neck when he hit the floor. It's a sick thing, I know, but it was quick and it was painless. They didn't suffer." And it was, for the collection of insurance claims, an ideal method of execution. According to doctors at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, one of the nation's leading large-animal hospitals, even the most-experienced pathologist would be unlikely to detect signs of death by electrocution—unless, perchance, the pathologist was looking for it and the clips happened to leave singe marks. Many of the horses Burns electrocuted were assumed to have died of colic.

So Tommy Burns (a.k.a. Timmy Robert Ray), who had worked around horses since he had run away from home in Connecticut at the age of 15, became a serial killer of horses and got away with it for 10 years. According to federal agents, Burns destroyed some 20 horses, mostly show jumpers and hunters, on the show-horse circuit from Florida to Vermont to Illinois. "In 1989 it got crazy," Burns says. "I killed three horses in one week." Indeed, toting the canvas athletic bag in which he hid his deadly wires, Burns became such a regular presence among the wealthy show-horse crowds that he earned a sobriquet of which he would remain, until recently, unaware. "People knew what was going on," says a prominent West Virginia horsewoman. "When Tommy arrived at a show, they would say the Sandman was around. They knew a horse would be put to sleep." In almost every ease, something about a horse—its performance, its health, its age—had made the unthinkable occur to its owner.

By that night of Feb. 2, Burns had, by his own admission, run "hard and wild for 10 years." A few days earlier he and his associate, Harlow Arlie, had driven a vanload of show horses from their base in northern Illinois to Canterbury Farms in Florida. Among the equine passengers was Streetwise, a sporty chestnut jumper with a white stocking on each leg, a blaze on its face and a $25,000 insurance policy on its life. Burns has told federal investigators that the 7-year-old gelding's owner, Donna Brown, a prominent horsewoman on the clubby show-horse circuit, had hired him for $5,000 to arrange a fatal accident for Streetwise. According to Burns, the insurance policy did not cover death by colic—Streetwise had a history of colic, a life-threatening condition in a horse—so Brown insisted that he break the animal's leg.

"I don't want to break his leg," Burns, at the bar near Gainesville, sang to Arlie in his executioner's song. "I'm not into that."

"I'll do it," Burns says Arlie told him. "For half your fee."

The two men left the bar and returned to Canterbury. Burns figured the rain that night would make the perfect alibi: They were loading Streetwise into the van when the horse slipped, fell off the ramp and broke its leg. At about 10:10 p.m., after helping to load three other horses into the van for a trip south to West Palm Beach, Burns stood in the middle of a brightly lighted lot and held a lead shank tethered to Streetwise's halter.

Unbeknownst to Burns, investigators for the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services, acting on a tip, had been following his van ever since it had rolled into Florida, and on this night they were staking out the farm. One of the investigators, Harold Barry, lay flat and still on the top of a beat-up horse trailer less than 100 yards away, watching helplessly as the dark, rain-swept scene suddenly turned from eerie to macabre.

The powerfully built Arlie appeared behind Streetwise's right rear leg, a crowbar in his hand. Arlie swung the bar like a baseball bat, and agents across the highway could hear a crack. Neighing loudly, in a high, panicky scream, Streetwise began thrashing on his dangling leg, fell to the ground as a stunned Burns hung onto the lead��"I'd never seen anything like it; the horse went into shock," he says—and then scrambled back to his feet. The keening horse tore the shank from Burns's hand and took off around the stable, disappearing in the night, falling again, bellowing, only a sound now, an echo behind the barn now, in the dark now, in the quiet rain.

Tommy Burns punched numbers on a cellular phone, calling Donna Brown in West Palm Beach to inform her of events. Meanwhile Arlie informed Carlie Ferguson, president of Canterbury Farms, who summoned a vet. The vet phoned Brown, and on her instructions he called the insurance company on its 800 emergency number. Of course, the company authorized immediate euthanasia for the suffering animal. Moments after arriving on the scene, the vet put the horse down.

Burns and Arlie did not get far. After the death of Streetwise, Burns fired up the rig and took off. But two miles down Route 26, Florida Highway Patrol cars converged on the van from all directions. "They were even coming out of dirt roads," says Burns. He made a run for it, but he was quickly subdued, handcuffed and arrested at shotgun point. "What were you guys doing at the farm?" a cop yelled in Burns's ear.

They had him cold. Agricultural investigators found the crowbar and the electrocution wires in Burns's white pickup. An accomplice who had helped to load the horses at the scene, Chad Sondell, said in a sworn statement to state investigators that Burns and Arlie had told him they were to be paid $5,000 by Brown to kill Streetwise. Arlie confirmed Sondell's story, according to police reports, and admitted having struck Streetwise with the crowbar. Arlie soon pleaded guilty to charges of insurance fraud and cruelty to animals, and he eventually served six months of an 18-month sentence before being paroled.

Federal authorities had been investigating Burns for months—it was they who had tipped the Florida agricultural department that the Sandman was heading south with a potential victim in his van—and Burns's arrest turned out to be the major break in what had become a difficult collection of cases to crack.

Underscoring the importance of the arrest, an FBI agent and a top Justice Department prosecutor from Chicago, Steve Miller, descended on Gainesville only hours after Burns was taken into custody. Caught in the act, incriminated by Arlie and Sondell and facing certain conviction and a jail term on charges of insurance fraud and cruelty to animals. Burns decided to cooperate with federal prosecutors. He spent three weeks in jail, and after the Alachua County Circuit Court finally released him on $100,000 cash bail—under an order that he stay away from horses—he returned to Chicago, where he began cooperating with a grand jury that has been looking into the killing of horses for insurance money.

Burns quickly unraveled his sordid tale to law-enforcement officials, giving names, places and dates from his history as a professional horse-killer and a co-conspirator in cases of insurance fraud. Burns faces sentencing Dec. 14 in the case involving Streetwise, and he expects the feds to seek leniency on his behalf on grounds that he is a key government witness in what has become an investigation of stunning scope.

"Tommy Burns turns out to be the tip of the iceberg," one federal agent says. In the next few weeks, as agents from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms wind up their investigations, sources estimate that as many as 40 owners, trainers, veterinarians and riders will be indicted on various charges related to the killing of horses for insurance payments. Law-enforcement officials are piecing together felony fraud cases against the owners and trainers who hired Burns, and they're tracking down itinerant stable hands and grooms who can confirm details of the killings that the Sandman carried out for their bosses. The inquiries have led agents on a long, circuitous trail from one scene of electrocution to the next, and along the way investigators have picked up leads on other insurance-related deaths not involving Burns and on still other crimes that include suspicious stable fires and the fraudulent sale of overvalued horses.

In the 21 months since Burns's arrest, investigators have developed hard evidence that such crimes have not been confined to the show-horse business and that Burns is not the only hit man working expensive stables. During that time the investigators have concluded that killing horses for insurance claims is business as usual at all levels in the world of show horses.

This phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it confined to jumpers and hunters. Twenty years ago, at some prominent thoroughbred racetrack barns, animals were dying at such an alarming rate that insurance companies were refusing to insure the trainers' horses. At one Belmont Park barn where horses were expiring mysteriously in the night, cynical grooms would show up in the morning and ask, "Anyone die last night?"

Veteran insurance adjusters say, however, that the number of suspicious claims by horse owners has increased dramatically in the years since the 1986 Tax Reform Act eliminated performance horses as depreciable assets. That "reform" and the anemic state of the economy cut the bottom out of the horse business, leaving a cash-starved industry with farms and stables struggling desperately to stay afloat.

Unlike paintings by Renoir or baseball cards bearing pictures of Honus Wagner, horses experience wild, often unforeseen fluctuations in value. Say, for instance, that a thoroughbred investor spends $500,000 for a well-built, well-bred yearling, insures him for that sum and sends him off, as a 2-year-old, to a racetrack trainer. And say that the trainer then informs the owner that the colt is so slow that he couldn't beat a $15,000 maiden claimer. Or that he is an ill-tempered, untrainable rogue. Or that he is about to bow a tendon and will never race. The humane sportsman might wince and take the loss, but more than a few others would make other arrangements. "The insurance is there, and it is very tempting," says one federal agent.

Over the last few years, says Harvey Feintuch, a New York lawyer who specializes in the investigation of equine insurance claims, "we have had a very, very significant increase in the number of claims that just don't look right."

Given the current economic climate, the sudden deaths of expensive, stall-bound horses tend to raise suspicions, even at the highest levels of the horse business. A widely respected freelance turf writer, Carol Flake, sent shudders through the thoroughbred industry when, in a meticulously reported article in the February 1992 issue of Connoisseur magazine, she raised the possibility that the death of Alydar—one of the most popular racehorses of modern times and one of the world's prepotent stallions—was not an accident (box, page 22).

In the investigation of thoroughbred fatalities, federal agents have found more than mere suspicions. In Brooklyn and South Florida, the feds say, they recently uncovered an insurance scheme that led to the death of one horse, a son of Seattle Slew named Fins, and nearly resulted in the death of another, Cutlass Reality, a New York stakes winner of $1.4 million. Prosecutors say that the scheme involved Victor Arena, the reputed head of the Colombo crime family; Howard Crash, a New York securities broker who is under indictment for bribery; and Larry Lombardo, a licensed owner and trainer of thoroughbreds who has been indicted on federal charges that he killed Fins "while making the death appear to be due to natural causes." Sources speculate that the horse was injected with parasitic bloodworms that brought on a case of thromboembolic colic, a fatal illness.

According to a 21-count indictment handed up in Miami on Aug. 4, Lombardo purchased Fins for $7,500, inflated the horse's value to $400,000 through a series of sales of phony shares, insured Fins for that amount and then collected on the policy after the horse died. Ron Rubinstein, Lombardo's defense attorney, claims that Fins died of natural causes and argues that the colt, at $400,000, was not overvalued as a breeding prospect. But Seth Hancock, the president of Claiborne Farm, which bred Fins and has been in the thoroughbred-breeding business for 80 years, said that Fins was a big, crooked-legged colt who couldn't run a lick.

Lombardo is also charged with conspiring to kill Cutlass Reality, the terrific winner of the 1988 Hollywood Gold Cup (and conqueror of the Horse of the Year, Alysheba), in an alleged insurance-fraud scheme. Crash and his former business associate Mark Hankoff—the two key government witnesses against Lombardo, according to sources close to the case—owned the horse in partnership with Lombardo and several others. What saved Cutlass Reality is unclear, but the hit was never made. "Somebody got scared and backed out," an FBI agent says. What is clear, according to the sworn testimony of an FBI agent involved in the case, is that Crash, Lombardo and Arena would have each received $1 million from the insurance settlement if the horse had been killed. Instead, Cutlass Reality will be standing stud in California next spring, servicing mares at $5,000 a pop—and that beats colic.

While the company that insured Fins had some doubts about the horse's stated value and was suspicious of the timing of the claim, which was made six months after the purchase of the policy, it nonetheless sent the $400,000 check to Lombardo and his cohorts. (Lombardo goes on trial next March 22; if convicted, he may be forced to make restitution to the insurance company.) Increasingly, however, insurance companies are balking at paying suspicious claims and are fighting them in court. The companies are also investigating suspicious claims more assiduously, looking for signs of fraud such as the bogus inflation of a horse's value and the concealing of ailments and infirmities. "We began to take more time and more care," says Feintuch, adding that Lloyds of London and other carriers have toughened their approach to paying claims.

Lloyds's increased vigilance dates back eight years to a case that rocked the highest levels of the thoroughbred breeding world and drove some of its biggest players to hide behind the woodshed in embarrassment. When, on March 25, 1984, an imported English horse named Pelerin died of vitamin D toxicosis shortly after ending his inconsistent career by finishing out of the money in a race in Louisiana, the underwriters of the insurance on the horse, all associated with Lloyds, had reason to be skeptical of the $1.45 million policy that Kentucky horseman Harold Snowden held on his half of the animal. Not only did Pelerin appear to have been poisoned, as the term toxicosis implies, but his value (Snowden and a partner had purchased him for $2 million) had dropped sharply in light of his less-than-stellar racing career.

Snowden, co-owner of the Stallion Station farm and breeder of two Kentucky Derby winners, Dust Commander (1970) and Bold Forbes (1976), had been one of the most active players in the business, the syndicator of more than 100 stallions and a prolific insurer of horses. In a gesture aimed at staying in Snowden's favor, the underwriters offered him $1 million—exactly what he had paid originally for half of the horse—to settle the claim. Snowden held out for $1.35 million. The carriers refused to budge, and Snowden took them to court. It was the first time that an equine insurance company had opposed someone of his stature.

Snowden came armed with 10 letters from fellow horsemen, all dated before Pelerin's death, in which each breeder expressed interest in buying a share in the horse for $75,000 upon his retirement to stud. At the 40 shares Snowden said he would have sold, Pelerin's claimed value now rose to $3 million. Among the nationally known breeders who sent letters were Warner Jones, then chairman of the board of Churchill Downs; J.T. Lundy, later head of Calumet Farm; and the late Leslie Combs II, then the aging pillar of Spendthrift Farm.

Snowden looked as if he would win in a gallop when—in a maneuver Perry Mason would have envied—Feintuch, acting on the underwriters' behalf, called two witnesses who destroyed Snowden's case and earned him the glowering wrath of the judge, Henry Wilhoit. One of the witnesses, a secretary for breeder Dwayne Rogers, testified that she had typed Rogers's letter to Snowden. The problem was that she had not begun working for Rogers until 14 months after Pelerin's death. She explained to the court that Rogers told her to backdate the letter to Jan. 5, 1984, two months before the horse's demise. The other witness, a receptionist at Spendthrift Farm, testified that she had typed Combs's letter to Snowden but that she did not go to work at Spendthrift until July 1984, by which time Pelerin had been dead four months. She testified that Combs had her type the backdated letter late one day, after everyone else had left the office.

Snowden was in trouble. His lawyers withdrew on him, leaving him to face a furious Wilhoit. Snowden hired F. Lee Bailey to put the toothpaste back in the tube, but that did no good. After a third horseman admitted that his letter was a fraud, Wilhoit concluded that "all 10 letters had been backdated." While never addressing the question of whether Pelerin was poisoned, Wilhoit charged that "a fraud had been practiced upon the court." Not only was Snowden out the $1 million that Lloyds had offered in the original settlement, but he was also left with a dead horse, a court-ordered judgment against him for $194,131.12 (to cover court costs and the amount Lloyds spent in legal fees fighting his claim) and bills from his own departed lawyers, not to mention from Bailey.

While the thoroughbred business has had its sorry share of cases involving insurance fraud, it has experienced nothing like the maelstrom that Burns is about to set spinning in the show-horse business. Sources say that, based on Burns's testimony, some of the most celebrated figures in the game are targets of the grand jury probe. They include Donna Brown and her husband, Buddy Brown, a member of the U.S. equestrian team at the 1976 Olympics and still one of the nation's leading performers in Grand Prix jumping. Not only does Donna face allegations in connection with the death of Streetwise, but she and Buddy are also under investigation for the death of Aramis, another show jumper. According to sources, insurance records show that Aramis, while insured for $1 million, died under suspicious circumstances. (No charge has been tiled in either case.)

Asked about the federal investigations into the deaths of two of the Browns' horses, the couple's lawyer, Mark Arisohn, a Manhattan criminal defense specialist, says, "I wish I could give you a response. We will plead not guilty. Our defense will be established in the courtroom."

Another horseman who has attracted the attention of investigators is George Lindemann Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., who has emerged as one of the nation's most accomplished equestrians since graduating from Brown University in 1986. Lindemann has ridden his stable of gifted show jumpers to victory in some of the Grand Prix circuit's richest and most prestigious events, but federal investigators are more interested in what role, if any, he played in the December 1990 death of his champion hunter Charisma.

Tommy Burns has told authorities that Charisma was insured for $400,000 when Burns electrocuted him for Lindemann in a stall at the Lindemann family's Cellular Farms, in Armonk, N.Y. According to another source, Lindemann had purchased Charisma for $250,000 in 1989. Minus Burns's alleged $35,000 fee for the hit, the insurance payoff would have left Lindemann with a $115,000 profit. It also left investigators wondering why, if Burns's allegations are true, the enormously rich Lindemann—the name Cellular Farms refers to cellular phones, the source of the family's wealth—would take so big a risk for so small a sum.

Asked about the inquiry into Charisma's death, Lindemann referred all questions to his lawyer, Elaine Amendola, who said, "Why should I be talking about this when George has the FBI hanging all over his neck?" She added, however, that "George is completely innocent."

Additionally, federal agents are looking into the possible involvement of veterinarian Dana Tripp, also an accomplished equestrian, in the death of Streetwise. Florida investigators say that Tripp's red pickup truck—with DANA TRIPP, D.V.M. emblazoned on its doors—was part of Burns's caravan as it made its way toward Canterbury Farms. It was Tripp, according to sources cited in the police report, who recommended to Donna Brown that she hire Burns to stage Streetwise's accident. Prosecutors have phone records revealing Tripp's numerous conversations with both Brown and Burns in the two days leading up to the death of Streetwise. Tripp has refused to respond to SI's questions about the matter.

The Sandman's trail has led federal agents to stables in at least eight states. Sources say that Paul Valliere of North Smithfield, R.I., one of the show circuit's leading trainers, is under federal investigation. Burns has told authorities that Valliere hired him to destroy Roseau Platiere, one of Valliere's own horses. Burns says he electrocuted the animal one night in its stall at a horse show in Sugarbush, Vt. Reached at his Acres Wild Farm in Rhode Island, Valliere refused to answer any questions. Seeking corroboration of Burns's Sugarbush story, SI spoke to a woman who said that she had picked Burns up at the airport in Burlington, Vt., and taken him to the horse show. (The woman said she had given this information to the FBI.) SI also spoke to others who described Roseau Platiere as vigorous and healthy in the hours before Burns's visit. Burns says he has federal agents that Roseau Platiere was one of the three horses he destroyed in 1989 during the busiest week of his career as a contract killer.

Agents are also following up Burns's account of the death of a show horse named Rainman. His owner, Chicago businessman Allen Levinson, collected a $50,000 insurance policy on Rainman's death, but he denies any wrongdoing. "I have never heard of Tommy Burns," Levinson says. "I was trying to sell that horse. I had it sold for more money than the insurance policy. There was a complete autopsy."

For the agents, investigating horse killings has been a difficult, unfamiliar experience. Only rarely has there been a body on which to perform a necropsy, as there was in the case of Streetwise; the carcasses usually have been lost to the rendering plants. So this has been in good part a paper chase. In some cases agents have served subpoenas on claims adjusters who had long before paid the owners for their losses. But the owners' files and personal financial records have been valuable, frequently confirming details of Burns's story of a horse's death—including in some cases the exact barn and stall where it occurred.

In fact, investigators have been struck by the ease with which they were able to follow the paper trail that some of Burns's clients left behind. Burns's presence on the circuit and the things that tended to happen when he was around became so accepted that he was treated like the feedman or the farrier. His employers frequently paid him with personal checks and sometimes with cashier's checks purchased at their banks.

Even federal agents, who thought they had seen everything, were shocked by the insouciance of some of those who dealt with Burns. Burns recalls one woman's approach to him at a horse show: "She said, 'Do you think you could kill my horse for $10,000?' So I did. She bought another horse with the insurance money and came up to me two months later and asked me to kill her new horse. She didn't like it."

There is a troubling banality about the evil at work in these cases. "We are dealing with a way of life here." one investigator said. "These people thought they had some sort of right to do these things."

Largely because of the nature of the crime ("These animals are so vulnerable that I'd compare it almost to hurting children," says Florida agriculture commissioner Bob Crawford), some law-enforcement officials have pursued the investigation with an inspired intensity. "This is a case where you can lose your detachment," says one federal agent. "These were beautiful animals. They were standing there helpless in their stalls. Most of these people had plenty of money. So you get outraged. And you work a little harder."

Burns knows better than anyone how the horses were standing in their stalls, wearing their halters and alligator clips and watching him curiously, like deer in a clearing, as he stepped outside and moved for the socket. He wants it known, as he has been telling the feds, that he wasn't there on his own. "I was not alone in all of this," he says. "I feel terrible about what I did. But I did not advertise. I did not do any sales calls. People found me and came to me. Very important people. Very wealthy people. They came to me because they somehow knew that I might be willing to do something they wanted done. They wanted these horses dead."

What the clients wanted, the clients got. However well he warbles, Burns knows he will do some jail time, just as he knows there will be no escaping, ever, what he did for so long with his life. There's no escaping that night in Florida, in the dark, in the rain, and the sight of Arlie with the crowbar, and the crack and the screams, the horse falling and thrashing, rising and running. Burns can still hear the cops yelling at him after his arrest: "You killed all those horses, and we know you did!"

"They were right," says Tommy Burns.

They always will be. That is his sentence.

FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

ANASTASIA VASILAKIS

Arlie swung the crowbar like a baseball bat, and agents watching from across the highway could hear a crack.

According to federal agents, Burns destroyed some 20 animals on the show-horse circuit from Florida to Vermont to Illinois.

Burns's presence became so accepted that he was treated like the feedman or the farrier. His employers frequently paid him with personal checks.

Over the last two years agents have concluded that killing horses for insurance payoffs is business as usual in the world of show horses.

BY

WILLIAM NACK

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BREAKING AND ENTERING

I GOT A KICK OUT OF HEARING THAT I WAS NOW A ROBBER AND WAS SHOWN A PICTURE SUPPOSEDLY OF ME CLIMBING INTO THE WINDOW OF A CARRIAGE HOUSE LOOKING STRUCTURE WITH 2 APARTMENTS.  THAT WAS ME IN THE PICTURE THAT I SAW.  THAT STRUCTURE IS ON THE PROPERTY THAT I SOLD MARCH 2021 WHICH CONSISTED OF A HOUSE WITH 2 APARTMENTS.  SOMEHOW SOMEONE GOT INTO MY HOUSE AND STOLE THE KEY TO THE APARTMENT SO I HAD TO CLIMB IN THE WINDOW A FEW TIMES UNTIL I HAD THE LOCK CHANGED.

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Dear Ella FROM MY FORTHCOMING BLOG - DEAR ELLA

Dear Ella,

My Daddy and my Uncle, who happen to be the same guy, both want me to go visit them for Hanukah and I’m not sure what to do?

David Whatchamakallit from Brooklyn N.Y.

  Dear David Whatchamakallit from Brooklyn,

It’s all about Br-eee-ding.  Tell your Daddys you want to see them both at the same time because they are both your Daddys.  A family that plays together stays together.

Dear Ella

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THREATENING TO PREVENT ME FROM WORKING

THESE MORONS PROBABLY GO AROUND LYING OR PAYING PEOPLE OFF TO PREVENT ME FROM WORKING AS THREATENED FOR OVER A YEAR.  THERE ARE ALOT OF DIFFERENT FIELDS THAT I HAVE INTEREST IN AND IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT.  

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CSL PLASMA

KUDOS TO THE GENIUS’ OVER AT CSL PLASMA. I GO THERE TO DONATE BLOOD AND THEY HAND ME A “LITERACY” FORM THAT SAYS YOU CANNOT DONATE BLOOD IF  YOU HAVE THIS OR THIS ISSUE.  I DIDN’T.  THEN IT STARTS ASKING QUESTIONS... “SHOULD YOU DONATE BLOOD IF YOU HAVE HIV?”  I CAN SAY THAT I DON’T HAVE HIV BUT WHO AM I TO MAKE A STATEMENT WHO SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DONATE BLOOD?  i DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT OR WHAT PROCEDURES ARE IN PLACE NOR DO I KNOW IF IT MATTERS.  THEN THEY GO OVER THIS BIOMETRIC SUMMARY SUPPOSEDLY BASED ON THE FINGERPRINT SCAN THEY DO VERBALLY.  THEN SHE ASKS ME TO SIGN THIS LITTLE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE DEVICE ABOUT  4″ BY 1″.  SHE COULDN’T EVEN SHOW ME ON THE MONITOR WHAT I WAS SIGNING FOR NOR COULD THEY PROVIDE ME WITH A WRITTEN FORM OR EVEN SHOW ME ELECTRONICALLY WHICH WOULDN’T HAVBE BEEN GOOD ENOUGH REGARDLESS.  IF SOMEONE BOUGHT THE COMPANY SUCH AS THE MORONS HARASSING ME AND OTHER PEOPLE THEY COULD POTENTIALLY ATTACH THAT SIGNATURE TO  ANY DOCUMENT.  SO I DIDN’T DONATE.