Month: August 2014

Let’s re-visit a spell about the S in S.H. Anthony Construction: Clarifications and corrections

Yesterday I ran For those that think Team Fed’s performance in the DMR Scandal was abysmal linking a post I did back in April 2013 about Sean Anthony’s tax assessment on a house on the Bay in Pass Christian. Yesterday evening I was contacted by Harrison County Board of Supervisors Attorney Tim Holleman, who wished to set the record straight regarding the role of Tax Collector LaRosa had in the sequence of events:

The truth is the tax receipt posted on your website is for 2012. The date for determining when improvements are to be added to property assessment is January 1 of each year. Improvements are not added until a Certificate of Occupancy is issued. I am advised that a certificate of occupancy was issued on the Anthony home on January 9, 2012, therefore the home could not added to the tax rolls until January 1, 2013. It was added in 2013 and should not have been on the rolls for 2012 as was alleged in your blog.

The county gets a printout of COs/permits from Cities/code offices each year, from that newly constructed homes are picked up and added to tax rolls.  So if Anthony CO not issued until 1/9/12 it would not be picked up till 2013 tax roll.  It’s up to Cities whether someone moves in before a CO is issued as county has no knowledge of such and no way of knowing if someone did so.  There are over 100,000 parcels in Har Co. impossible to ck everyone each year, county relies on Cities to give info within Cities on new construction primarily COs and permits.

To the extent the Tax Collector is dependant on the Certificate of Occupancy which in this case is Municipal building department function, the insinuation in my original post that Tax Collector Larosa was involved in the inside of a bad tax assessment was incorrect and Slabbed New Media apologizes for making it.

That said and to the extent my sourcing on the issue of the date of occupancy of the Anthony homestead is rock solid, Slabbed stands by the larger point made in the original post regarding problems with how the newly constructed home was valued for the 2012 property tax rolls.

DMR Public Records Leaks: Shumate land transaction raises questions (Updated)

There was one document in the last care package that I could not fit with the others yet the leaker thought it important enough to include. I’m hoping the community here can help solve this mystery. The language on Exhibit A leads me to believe this may be part of a section 1031 Exchange but we can’t conclude that based solely on these documents. What we do know was that Team Shumate was doing land transactions right up to the time the larger DMR Scandal broke in the media:

Shumate Loan July 2012

Shumate Loan July 2012

Update:
See comments for the answer to the question.

For those that think Team Fed’s performance in the DMR Scandal was abysmal…..

Just wait until and see what happens with the HCUA. The smoke has been billowing for years now and there are politicians that have exposures according to lore. That said I fear that just like DMR, the authorities are more concerned with containing the reach of the investigation than unraveling the web of deceit and corruption.

Here are a few salient links so everyone gets on the same page:

I mention all this today because the rumor mill has been churning for a year plus now. I personally wouldn’t get my hopes up the scandal goes beyond Sean Anthony and Kamran Pahlvan, if it goes that far.

In our continuing coverage of Bull Durham, Environmental Savior……….

It looks like Team Bull may have stiffed the folks at Baker Donelson for big money defending Bull against the Baldwins but first a song:

You lifers know where to look but for those catching up, click generally here and specifically here for Slabbed’s prior coverage of this never ending saga. Click the pic to nab the partially sealed complaint for damages against Patrick Smith and others including entities owned at least partially by Bull Durham himself.

Baker Donalson v Smith et al Doc 1 Baker Donelson v Smith et al Doc 1