This is a story the mainstream media has given no coverage on
It's way better if you click the link and read it from there
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10943-the-death-of-sunny-sheu#
It's a very long article so I will post only parts of it
The Story of Sheu
Early in 2009, Sheu walked into the office of the Black Star News* (BSN) and recounted to Publisher Milton Allimadi the story of his ten-year struggle with corruption at every level of New York government. Mr. Sheu, a legal immigrant from Taiwan, was a small, wiry man with a mischievous sense of humor, who could express fierce outrage one moment and chuckle at the absurdity of it all the next. Though his English was rudimentary, he radiated intelligence and humble self-assurance. Sheu made
his living as a computer hardware and software engineer and was creating a social network site for Chinese-speaking people when his troubles began. He also rented out two rooms in his Flushing Queens home for extra income. Above all, Sheu was a peaceful warrior, who felt that fighting for one's rights was a patriotic duty, a privilege of living in America that was to some degree its own reward.
Sheu's problem centered around his residential property, a simple two-story house at**45-14 158th street in Flushing, Queens, which he said had been wrongfully wrested from him by a mortgage company with the aide ofJudge Joseph Golia**from the State Supreme Court in Queens. Sheu claimed Golia was "corrupt" and had consistently ruled against him and in favor of the bank, to wrongfully ensure that he never recovered his property.
Sheu's story of his struggle with**Judge Golia**was so compelling that the BSN covered it in a three-part series entitled "Junk Justice," which ran beginning in July 2009. At that time, the BSN believed that exposing Mr. Sheu's struggle with judicial corruption and abuse would protect Sheu from reprisals against him. Tragically, that was not the case.
The Background Story: Mortgage Fraud and Court Malfeasance
Sheu's ordeal began over ten years ago when a bank representative knocked on his door and said he was there to inspect the house for its new owner. The problem was that Sheu had never sold the house.
Sheu's house was owned under the name of his brother Hsu, and it was soon discovered that someone had forged his brother's signature on a power-of-attorney document and used the forged power of attorney to illegally sell the property to a fraudulent buyer.
Sheu immediately alerted all relevant authorities and parties; including the police, the bank that held the mortgage (Centex Home Equity) and the title insurer of the property (Old Republic Title Insurance). He wrote letters to all the appropriate executives at Centex, alerting them that the**sale was fraudulent. Sheu's brother was able to prove to the police that he had been in Taiwan on the date of the fraudulent signing and could not have signed the papers before a notary in New York. Soon thereafter, the**forgers were arrested by the NYPD**and were eventually prosecuted and pled guilty of forgery.
Sheu expected that with all the evidence in hand, the fraudulent sale would be quickly invalidated and his home returned. In fact, it was actually only the beginning of his nightmare. Despite all the warnings and documentation submitted by Sheu regarding the**fraud, including the criminal complaint,**Centex continued to act as if the sale had been legitimate. Sunny continued to send his mortgage payments to Centex, but Centex sent them back, insisting that Sheu was no longer the owner.
Incredibly, in December 2001, Centex filed a lawsuit against Sheu and the fraudulent "owners" in State Supreme Court, Queens County. The bank wanted a default judgment on the property and foreclosure, claiming that the "new owners" were delinquent on mortgage payments. In reality, of course, there were never any legal "new owners."
The Legal Fiasco**
The Centex v. Sheu case went before Judge Golia, in Queens County. Sheu immediately filed an "Order to Show Cause" requesting a**temporary restraining order**on the lawsuit and asking Golia to allow the detectives who arrested the fraudsters to testify on the record. Sheu said he was stunned when Judge Golia denied the motion and ignored the documented fact that the "sale" had been fraudulent, which would have obviated Centex's claim against him. Instead of immediately restoring Sheu's rightful ownership, Golia allowed the lawsuit to proceed, eventually leading to foreclosure on Sheu's home.
Worse yet, the judge let the case drag out for**ten years, with numerous postponements, essentially draining Sheu of all his resources. At some point, Sheu could no longer afford attorney fees and had to represent himself.
For ten grueling years, Sheu was consistently denied the opportunity to present evidentiary documentationproving that the fraud had taken placeand that Centex had no right to foreclose on his home.**Judge Golia never even allowed Sheu to introduce records of the forger's guilty plea and conviction into evidence. Clearly, simple discovery - examination of documents by the court - would have proven the fraud, but Golia never allowed this fundamental judicial procedure to take place, despite Sheu's numerous appeals to the judge.
Sheu's home was first foreclosed on January 28, 2005, and Centex "bought" the property for $1,000 from Amy Cheng, one of the pseudonymous fraudsters who had been arrested for fraud in the fictitious sale. "How can you buy property from someone who does not exist?" Sheu asked, in an interview with the BSN.
Sheu also wrote New York State Chief Administrative Judge - now Chief Judge - Jonathan Lippman, complaining about Judge Golia's conduct and accusing the judge of "discrimination" and "bias." In fact Lippman, while he was chief administrative judge, appointed Golia to his judgeship in**the 11th District.
Sheu demanded that Golia recuse himself from the case; the judge refused. Sheu was persistent, writing to numerous elected public officials and filing an appeal against the foreclosure. Aware that Sheu had notified various elected officials about what he claimed were the "biased" rulings, Judge Golia eventually reversed his own earlier decision and theinitial foreclosure was rescinded, records showed.
Still, the judge refused to restore ownership of the property to Sheu. Golia was so adamant to deprive him of justice, Sheu contended, that he came up with a remarkable decision. Golia now ruled that even though Sheu's home had been illegally sold years earlier, since Centex had already paid off the mortgage,**the bank now owned the property under a doctrine known as "Equitable Subrogation." After all of Sheu's struggle, the bank owned the house after all.
"How can equitable subrogation apply to stolen property?" Sheu said, in a BSN interview. "This means if I have a lot of money, like Centex, I can pay off anybody's mortgage anywhere without their permission and then take possession of their home and kick them out?"
Finally, early in 2010, his property was foreclosed on again, this time conclusively (until after his death; see below). When it became clear to Sheu that he could not expect a fair disposition of the case by Golia, he advised the judge that he would expose the judicial charade to the media.
Sheu Is Kidnapped and Threatened by NYPD Detectives
One week later, on January 14, 2009, Sheu was summoned to the Queens Supreme courthouse. He was met in the courthouse lobby by two NYPD detectives of the Queens District Attorney's Bureau. The detectives told Sheu that they wanted to talk to him about his mortgage case. Sunny sat down on a bench and said he was ready to discuss the case.
According to Sheu, the detectives then "showed their guns and badges," led him into an unmarked car and drove him to the district attorney's (DA) office, where they entered through a back door. There, said Sheu, in a locked room, the officers berated and intimidated him, accusing him of harassing Judge Golia, forcing him to empty his pockets and photocopying his documents. He claimed that one officer pounded on a desk and told him repeatedly that the house he was fighting for didn't belong to him.
Most ominously, Sheu reported that one of the detectives warned that if he "went to the press or authorities," "...**you live in a dangerous neighborhood with gangs and anything could happen to you." Understandably, Sheu took this as a direct threat against his life, and after two hours of detention, he emerged shaken and terrified.
(Spokesperson Kevin Ryan from the Queens DA's office confirmed that Sheu had indeed been detained by two NYPD detectives on the date in question and promised to provide more information after investigating the matter, including the name of the person who ordered the detention and the names of the two detectives. Since that promise was made - over a year ago - the Queens DA has never contacted the BSN regarding this matter.)
But despite the warning of the detectives not to contact the authorities or the press, Sheu did both. It was shortly after this detention that Sheu contacted the BSN and began working on the articles with Milton Allimadi.
It's way better if you click the link and read it from there
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10943-the-death-of-sunny-sheu#
It's a very long article so I will post only parts of it
The Story of Sheu
Early in 2009, Sheu walked into the office of the Black Star News* (BSN) and recounted to Publisher Milton Allimadi the story of his ten-year struggle with corruption at every level of New York government. Mr. Sheu, a legal immigrant from Taiwan, was a small, wiry man with a mischievous sense of humor, who could express fierce outrage one moment and chuckle at the absurdity of it all the next. Though his English was rudimentary, he radiated intelligence and humble self-assurance. Sheu made
his living as a computer hardware and software engineer and was creating a social network site for Chinese-speaking people when his troubles began. He also rented out two rooms in his Flushing Queens home for extra income. Above all, Sheu was a peaceful warrior, who felt that fighting for one's rights was a patriotic duty, a privilege of living in America that was to some degree its own reward.
Sheu's problem centered around his residential property, a simple two-story house at**45-14 158th street in Flushing, Queens, which he said had been wrongfully wrested from him by a mortgage company with the aide ofJudge Joseph Golia**from the State Supreme Court in Queens. Sheu claimed Golia was "corrupt" and had consistently ruled against him and in favor of the bank, to wrongfully ensure that he never recovered his property.
Sheu's story of his struggle with**Judge Golia**was so compelling that the BSN covered it in a three-part series entitled "Junk Justice," which ran beginning in July 2009. At that time, the BSN believed that exposing Mr. Sheu's struggle with judicial corruption and abuse would protect Sheu from reprisals against him. Tragically, that was not the case.
The Background Story: Mortgage Fraud and Court Malfeasance
Sheu's ordeal began over ten years ago when a bank representative knocked on his door and said he was there to inspect the house for its new owner. The problem was that Sheu had never sold the house.
Sheu's house was owned under the name of his brother Hsu, and it was soon discovered that someone had forged his brother's signature on a power-of-attorney document and used the forged power of attorney to illegally sell the property to a fraudulent buyer.
Sheu immediately alerted all relevant authorities and parties; including the police, the bank that held the mortgage (Centex Home Equity) and the title insurer of the property (Old Republic Title Insurance). He wrote letters to all the appropriate executives at Centex, alerting them that the**sale was fraudulent. Sheu's brother was able to prove to the police that he had been in Taiwan on the date of the fraudulent signing and could not have signed the papers before a notary in New York. Soon thereafter, the**forgers were arrested by the NYPD**and were eventually prosecuted and pled guilty of forgery.
Sheu expected that with all the evidence in hand, the fraudulent sale would be quickly invalidated and his home returned. In fact, it was actually only the beginning of his nightmare. Despite all the warnings and documentation submitted by Sheu regarding the**fraud, including the criminal complaint,**Centex continued to act as if the sale had been legitimate. Sunny continued to send his mortgage payments to Centex, but Centex sent them back, insisting that Sheu was no longer the owner.
Incredibly, in December 2001, Centex filed a lawsuit against Sheu and the fraudulent "owners" in State Supreme Court, Queens County. The bank wanted a default judgment on the property and foreclosure, claiming that the "new owners" were delinquent on mortgage payments. In reality, of course, there were never any legal "new owners."
The Legal Fiasco**
The Centex v. Sheu case went before Judge Golia, in Queens County. Sheu immediately filed an "Order to Show Cause" requesting a**temporary restraining order**on the lawsuit and asking Golia to allow the detectives who arrested the fraudsters to testify on the record. Sheu said he was stunned when Judge Golia denied the motion and ignored the documented fact that the "sale" had been fraudulent, which would have obviated Centex's claim against him. Instead of immediately restoring Sheu's rightful ownership, Golia allowed the lawsuit to proceed, eventually leading to foreclosure on Sheu's home.
Worse yet, the judge let the case drag out for**ten years, with numerous postponements, essentially draining Sheu of all his resources. At some point, Sheu could no longer afford attorney fees and had to represent himself.
For ten grueling years, Sheu was consistently denied the opportunity to present evidentiary documentationproving that the fraud had taken placeand that Centex had no right to foreclose on his home.**Judge Golia never even allowed Sheu to introduce records of the forger's guilty plea and conviction into evidence. Clearly, simple discovery - examination of documents by the court - would have proven the fraud, but Golia never allowed this fundamental judicial procedure to take place, despite Sheu's numerous appeals to the judge.
Sheu's home was first foreclosed on January 28, 2005, and Centex "bought" the property for $1,000 from Amy Cheng, one of the pseudonymous fraudsters who had been arrested for fraud in the fictitious sale. "How can you buy property from someone who does not exist?" Sheu asked, in an interview with the BSN.
Sheu also wrote New York State Chief Administrative Judge - now Chief Judge - Jonathan Lippman, complaining about Judge Golia's conduct and accusing the judge of "discrimination" and "bias." In fact Lippman, while he was chief administrative judge, appointed Golia to his judgeship in**the 11th District.
Sheu demanded that Golia recuse himself from the case; the judge refused. Sheu was persistent, writing to numerous elected public officials and filing an appeal against the foreclosure. Aware that Sheu had notified various elected officials about what he claimed were the "biased" rulings, Judge Golia eventually reversed his own earlier decision and theinitial foreclosure was rescinded, records showed.
Still, the judge refused to restore ownership of the property to Sheu. Golia was so adamant to deprive him of justice, Sheu contended, that he came up with a remarkable decision. Golia now ruled that even though Sheu's home had been illegally sold years earlier, since Centex had already paid off the mortgage,**the bank now owned the property under a doctrine known as "Equitable Subrogation." After all of Sheu's struggle, the bank owned the house after all.
"How can equitable subrogation apply to stolen property?" Sheu said, in a BSN interview. "This means if I have a lot of money, like Centex, I can pay off anybody's mortgage anywhere without their permission and then take possession of their home and kick them out?"
Finally, early in 2010, his property was foreclosed on again, this time conclusively (until after his death; see below). When it became clear to Sheu that he could not expect a fair disposition of the case by Golia, he advised the judge that he would expose the judicial charade to the media.
Sheu Is Kidnapped and Threatened by NYPD Detectives
One week later, on January 14, 2009, Sheu was summoned to the Queens Supreme courthouse. He was met in the courthouse lobby by two NYPD detectives of the Queens District Attorney's Bureau. The detectives told Sheu that they wanted to talk to him about his mortgage case. Sunny sat down on a bench and said he was ready to discuss the case.
According to Sheu, the detectives then "showed their guns and badges," led him into an unmarked car and drove him to the district attorney's (DA) office, where they entered through a back door. There, said Sheu, in a locked room, the officers berated and intimidated him, accusing him of harassing Judge Golia, forcing him to empty his pockets and photocopying his documents. He claimed that one officer pounded on a desk and told him repeatedly that the house he was fighting for didn't belong to him.
Most ominously, Sheu reported that one of the detectives warned that if he "went to the press or authorities," "...**you live in a dangerous neighborhood with gangs and anything could happen to you." Understandably, Sheu took this as a direct threat against his life, and after two hours of detention, he emerged shaken and terrified.
(Spokesperson Kevin Ryan from the Queens DA's office confirmed that Sheu had indeed been detained by two NYPD detectives on the date in question and promised to provide more information after investigating the matter, including the name of the person who ordered the detention and the names of the two detectives. Since that promise was made - over a year ago - the Queens DA has never contacted the BSN regarding this matter.)
But despite the warning of the detectives not to contact the authorities or the press, Sheu did both. It was shortly after this detention that Sheu contacted the BSN and began working on the articles with Milton Allimadi.
