Wowee ka-zowee – I didn’t see this article until today. And the comments section is even worse.
Let me explain how it [water]works. Tenants must pay rent. Someone must collect rent. Someone must pay the water bills and make repairs out of the RENT MONEY. From a jail cell, Bill White can’t oversee or participate in any of these activities. He can only write letters from the hole to people who could do these things for him.
Thought for the day: If the water bill isn’t paid, then the water company will turn off the water, and then everything gets closed down.
If the tenants scoffed at paying rent, they deserve to be homeless. That’s exactly what SHOULD happen to them next.
But, apparently they have a communist government in Roanoke that makes landlords provide free homes and free water for people, and it doesn’t even really matter if the landlord is a “Nazi” or not.
The races of the tenants is significant in this story, but of course, not mentioned in the article. When Bill White has mentioned these tenants to me, he has called them white.
Final note: I think Bill White could have been dragged back into court for turning the water off, and he may be yet, but he DID go through the court to get the water turned off in the first place. A Roanoke judge ordered Bill’s letter asking for the water to be turned off to be sent to the lawyer for the water company.
The Roanoke Times
© November 12, 2010
By Laurence Hammack
From his prison cell 126 miles away, neo-Nazi agitator William A. White can still cause a stir — this time in the inner-city neighborhood where his rental home business is on the verge of collapse.
At White’s written request this week, water and sewer service was disconnected at seven houses he owns in the West End neighborhood, forcing the city to begin condemnations that would have left his tenants homeless.
Standing on the sidewalk outside her Chapman Avenue house Thursday afternoon, Patricia Quackenbush said she was under orders to be out of her home by 5 p.m.
“He doesn’t give a damn about anybody out here,” Quackenbush said of her landlord, who is serving a 2 1/2 -year prison term for threatening people as the leader of a white supremacy organization that was once headquartered just down the street from her home.
But by the day’s end, water service had been restored to the homes at the urging of David Beidler, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley.
“I’m taking a risk here,” said Gary Robertson of the Western Virginia Water Authority, who made the decision after a call from Beidler. “Because these are William White’s properties, the service is in his name, and he has the right to stop and start service.
“But from a humanitarian standpoint, we’re going to take that chance,” Robertson said.
The move to restore service for 30 days allows White’s tenants to remain in their homes while they plan their next legal move, said Beidler, whose phone lit up this week with calls from distressed tenants.
At least temporarily, “families immediately became homeless. And those families included children, the elderly and the disabled,” Beidler said. “My clients felt like the water termination was intended as a way to evict them — unlawfully.”
White’s decision to cut off the water to his homes comes as his business, White Homes and Land LLC, teeters on the edge of insolvency. On Monday, a judge dismissed his bankruptcy case — removing the protection White had enjoyed under a reorganization plan and allowing creditors to begin collecting on more than $1 million he owes.
White is serving a 2½-year prison sentence for making racially charged threats to Virginia Beach residents.
“I am having difficulty bringing things under control,” White wrote in a letter to Roanoke code enforcement officials, mailed from the federal prison in Beckley, W.Va. “The most helpful thing you can do is work with me to get these properties shut down and secured.”
To Quackenbush, that means she and other tenants are out of luck.
“I was told he was trying to get all the trash out of the neighborhood,” she said. When Quackenbush, her husband and three children moved into their home on Chapman Avenue in February, she said, she had no idea the owner was a neo-Nazi leader.
But she soon learned from neighbors about White, whose racist views became public about the time he began to purchase homes in the West End in the summer of 2004.
On Overthrow.com, the website that would later become the heart of White’s neo-Nazi organization, he wrote about his “Ghetto Beautification Project” and his dislike for black people who lived there.
“He didn’t beautify anything,” Quackenbush said. “He made it worse.”
Had the water service not been restored, Beidler said he was prepared to go to court immediately and argue that White had not given his tenants adequate notice to move out. Because the seven homes in question were duplexes served by a single meter, water authority officials said they could not allow the residents to set up accounts in their own names — which would have conflicted with White’s demands.
Since he was jailed for making racially charged threats, White has attempted to manage from prison a real estate venture that once included more than 20 homes in the West End, a racially diverse, low-income neighborhood.
With the help of his wife, White at first kept the business afloat under a reorganization plan approved by the bankruptcy court in July 2009. But as tenants moved out and houses fell into disrepair, he missed payments set up by the plan.
Although White had claimed he had an investor interested in buying his houses, bankruptcy Judge William Stone on Monday dismissed the case at the request of the U.S. trustee.
That likely means the banks White borrowed from to buy his houses will move to repossess them at foreclosure auctions. It also leaves White vulnerable to other debts, including a $545,000 [WRONG!]civil verdict on behalf of five black women he tormented with racial slurs and threats after they filed a discrimination lawsuit against their Virginia Beach landlord. [MONEY WHICH THEY ARE EVEN MORE UNLIKELY TO EVER COLLECT AFTER THIS, SHERLOCK.]
Before his downfall, White was considered “possibly the loudest and most obnoxious neo-Nazi leader in America” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. As the head of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, White used the Internet and other means to harass people who offended his racist views.
In December, a federal jury in Roanoke convicted White of threatening people in Delaware, Missouri and Virginia Beach. His prison term will be completed in January, although White faces an additional charge in Chicago.
Despite his defeats in criminal and bankruptcy court, White seems determined to call the shots.
“Please note that I am so deeply in debt and these properties are in such a condition that you cannot meaningfully fine me, and, obviously, I cannot be jailed, so a cooperative attitude will be best,” he wrote in his letter to city code enforcement officials.
On Chapman Avenue, where White’s tenants have long scoffed at the notion of paying rent to a racist, there was hope this week for a transformation.
“Even if we get another slumlord, it won’t be as bad,” C. Johnson said. “Because at least it won’t be a prejudiced slumlord.”
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