Oh my God I can not describe to you the feeling I got when I opened up my email this morning and saw a reply from Mr. Renda. I knew what it had to be because I had only contacted him about one thing.
I have wanted the answer to the question for so long. "How much has Joe Pilchesky cost the taxpayers of the city of Scranton over the past 4 years with the filing of his frivilous lawsuits.
I have not had a chance to look at this yet, but I knewa few people who were just as interested in this information as I was ... so I sent it to you.
I will be posting it as soon as I have an opportunity to go through it. Now if someone I sent it to has the time to look at it and then post it, I would welcome it as I have a long day ahead of me today and won't even be able to really do anything with it until Friday. But we have it.
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
I'll go through what you sent and see if I can put together a chart showing the totals by case & firm. With a little luck I may be able to get it done by this evening.
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Thanks Ag ... I would appreciate it. I still didn't get a chance to go through it but I can't ... tomorrow I have all day to look through it.
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I think the next step to this is to inquire at the county level and get that number ... but I was more interested in how much it cost the city of Scranton.
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I had to work late yesterday, so I didn't finish going through it. That will happen today though; actually I did make a pass through the documents, but there are a few amounts that I need to make sure aren't counted twice. Also, the documentation includes an invoice that was sent to the insurance carrier, so I'll note that separately.
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Ag, for your information, the insurance portion was probably concerning the lawsuit with Judy Gatelli and Pilchesky. Something to that effect was posted at DD that the city's insurance carrier was covering that suit.
The numbers are posted below. Note that the total listed at the bottom doesn't include the amount noted at the top as having been submitted to the insurance carrier.
LAW FIRM/LAWYER
AMOUNT
NOTES
Wright & Reihner
$41,930.00
Submitted to Ins. Carrier
Cipriani & Werner
$900.00
Cipriani & Werner
$212.50
Thomas B Helbig
$1,723.00
Thomas B Helbig
$1,568.00
Thomas B Helbig
$1,129.00
Thomas B Helbig
$1,266.75
Thomas B Helbig
$1,345.95
Thomas B Helbig
$1,566.05
Thomas B Helbig
$1,642.75
Thomas B Helbig
$1,474.75
Thomas B Helbig
$1,338.00
Thomas B Helbig
$766.50
Thomas B Helbig
$369.75
Lenahan & Dempsey
$3,628.68
Lenahan & Dempsey
$190.78
Lenahan & Dempsey
$1,115.84
Lenahan & Dempsey
$258.43
Lenahan & Dempsey
$389.50
Lenahan & Dempsey
$1,064.00
Lenahan & Dempsey
$166.43
Lenahan & Dempsey
$101.36
Thomas B Helbig
$3,390.00
Thomas B Helbig
$845.50
Thomas B Helbig
$2,569.00
Thomas B Helbig
$2,015.25
Thomas B Helbig
$678.25
Thomas B Helbig
$742.00
Thomas B Helbig
$1,807.50
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman and Goggin
$11,496.00
TOTAL
$45,761.52
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You could go to Harvard University for a year, with some money left over for beer.
According to United Nations, you could supply 15,000 African Children with treated mosquito nets (so that they don't catch any number of horrible diseases).
According to UNICEF, you could drill 18 wells that would supply thousands with clean drinking water in Angola.
Also according to UNICEF, you could vaccinate 1,500 African children against measels, polio and tetanus.
According to the World Food Program, you could feed 100 African children daily for about 6.5 years.
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And that is just the amount of taxpayer dollars wasted for the City of Scranton, how much of the Lackawanna County Tax dollars have been wasted in the same way?
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But you know what the kids across the hall will call this .... an investment ... that's right they won't see a thing wrong with this ... I see a lot wrong ... and you know what that's just what the legal fees were ... think about it ... how much of the courts time was wasted ... what is a judge paid per hour? Which city employees had to be in attendance for these frivilous lawsuits? How many hours did that take them away from their jobs ... figure in that for the cost. Figure in Rosanne Novembrino's time and the time of her staff that has gone into processing these bills ... so what we are seeing is simply the legal fees and not everything else that factors into the actual costs.
Clerical costs of getting the materials needed to defend these lawsuits ... nobody really ever thinks about these costs ... but they do factor in. So the total amount is 45K paid in legal fees ... but I would guess that it's more than double that in total costs when you think about man hours needed to prepare.
Also don't count out that other almost 42K because the city does pay for this insurance policy so they are paying somthing towards that ... and didn't Pilchesky file a lawsuit to stop this from being covered by insurance? I might be wrong on that though I thought that's what I heard.
In the end Pilchesky does nothing but help drive up that long term debt that he's always bitching about!
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A. The amount of the debt (as we've discussed ad naseum) is open to a reasonable debate. Regardless of the actual accounting, it is too high though. However, it's important to note that Doherty isn't to blame for all of it.
B. The debt bought and paid for things, some of which even Shari would concede have some value. However the first dollar spent on Pilchesky lawsuits was a dollar wasted. That dollar has now multiplied over 45,000 times, with no end in sight.
C. So what was the $45,000 spent on? In reality it was spent to gratify Joe Pilchesky's ego. In my mind that has no value for any taxpayer.
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well add up all of the drop in the bucket costs ... come on Shari how can you be upset about wasted dollars everywhere else and then say ... so what 45K is only a drop in the bucket.
Tad bit hypocritical don't you think ...
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Oh and it's 45k from 2005 - 2008 ... and as Ag has pointed out there is no end in site.
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So to date what exactly has JOey and the DOlts at JOey LanD accomplished...
Still waiting...
Exactly nada, zippo, zelch, bumcus, squat!!!
I am not truely on board with the Mayor and City Council on a few things and disagree with the way the city has mis-managed and mis-handled the contracts and taking a deep look and expenses vs. sources of income for the city.
With that said, I feel suing the city, bashing the mayor, city council and using the unions as cannon fodder is not the path to take.
The timelines and stories about JOey's fight because of a handicap ramp will come to light in a few weeks during Edith's trial, so when all is said and done - Gee think what could have been if only the mayor would have looked the other way when JOey wanted his backyard mister fix-it shop.
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You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
I can only imagine what it is up to now ... I dragged this one out of the PD attic because it's something that other people are now beginning to wonder about ... I have been curious about this number for a couple of years now.
He can sit and claim that everything he does is for the taxpayer ... but it's not ... he is an attention whore and nothing more ... but in the meantime he runs up the dollar amounts and puts added burden on the taxpayers ... and here he doesn't even pay his own taxes. Nice!
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And that my friend was more than a year ago and I am sure that cost has increased. And remember that figure is only the amount for the city of Scranton. That does not include his county and statewide lawsuits. So I am sure that the cost of these lawsuits is substantially more! Imagine what good could have been done wih the amount that they truly have cost.
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I want everyone to stop and think about one thing ... Joe Pilchesky is not a lawyer ... he's just a guy playing a lawyer on the internet. Please don't trust your legal needs to this man.
i am not sure but isnt there a law callled abuse of judicial system(not the exact term)whe a person or people abuse the system for nothing but bogus suits if any one knows the exact term please post we can make a great topic from it
just did a little more research on Mr Riches he does have way to much time on his hands because he is in jail?He sued the guiness book of world records over the most lawsuits held.This guy must of bumped his head when ol bubba was you know helping him out, can any one say abuse of justice!
The fruit-cakes that file tons of frivolous lawsuits don't seem all that far your typical cat lady, or from the people who compulsively horde things. It's all a disease of compulsion...they are people who are dire need of mental health care because obviously they are incapable of living lives outside of their compulsions.
Gee, I wonder how many cats (or dogs) Fay Franus owns? I'm thinking there maybe a few dozen laying around.
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