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For Immediate Release

Re: Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) v. Gil Eriksen
Properties LLC; Case No. 06-004169 (21)

BROWARD TIMES IS FIRST TO EXPOSE THE LACK OF

AUTHORITY OF THE POMPANO BEACH COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO TAKE PROPERTIES UNDER
FALSE GUISE OF EMINENT DOMAIN
Pompano Beach, FL, June 14, 2010 The Broward Times, now called the
South Florida Times, was the first media organization to cover the the finding that
the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency in Broward County,
Florida wasnt a legal agency and didnt have the power of eminent domain to take
properties, even though it had been stealing properties for a decade. Elgin Jones,
longtime writer for the newspaper, has repeatedly uncovered and exposed
government corruption in his column, Around South Florida, and was first to
document the court ruling finding the CRA to be without authority in his article,
Redevelopment agency cant seize business, judge rules. Mr. Jones was recently
shocked to hear that a five year-old eminent domain taking case of Pompano
Beach CRA v Gil Eriksen Properties LLC is still going on from that time, even
though the agency that filed the suit was found to have no authority to exist, let
alone seize property.
Attached is a copy of Elgin Jones first breaking article on the topic. Since
the original coverage 3 years ago, the Pompano Beach Community
Redevelopment Agency, the Pompano Beach Commission, and the Broward
County Commission and circuit and district courts have attempted to ignore, deny,
devalue, and cover-up the ruling and subsequent scandal, speculated to perhaps to
avoid a class action by all those affected by the decade of illegal property seizures.

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 The problems facing the Community Redevelopment Agency have not
ceased, however. As it stands now, the case whereby the property of Gil Eriksen
Properties LLC was seized by the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment
Agency with no authority is being seen as Constitutional offense, and is still open
and unresolved after five years, which many are calling out as a further obstruction
of justice, blockade of due process, and cover-up. The property owner is still owed
$4 million dollars in restitution, even though the Pompano Beach Community
Redevelopment Agency took possession of the private property four years ago,
and has since destroyed it.
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