Is it my imagination, or does the air suddenly seem cleaner?
Does politics seem cleaner?
Do City and County Commissioners suddenly appear less oleaginous?
Well, hold on to your seats. We have news on civic improvement, right here in St. Augustine.
The man whom developer mouthpiece GEORGE McCLURE once called the "most hated man in St. Johns County" -- tree-killing, wetland-destroying, tacky-house-building developer and conman ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD -- has left town. Gone. Good riddance. He's practicing law in Chester, New York.
That man, ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD would like to sell all of his properties. Surely the taxpayers can get a good price now for land that belongs in the St. Augustine National Historical Park, Seashore and Scenic Coastal Parkway.
It's too late for Red House Bluff -- the beautiful 3000-4000 year old Native American Indian villege next to St. Augustine High School.
St. Augustine City Commissioners voted 3-2 to let GRAUBARD destroy it for condominiums and a strip mall.
It's too late for other sacred places, which GRAUBARD was allowed to destroy by supine, solipsistic City and County Commissioners -- known Republicans who laughed all the way to the bank as GRAUBARD floor-planned their campaigns.
Why supercilious City Commissioners even forgave GRAUBARD a $15,000 fine for tree-killing, without complying with Due Process, or the City Code.
Florida is possibly the most corrupt state in America, and St. Johns County is reputedly the most corrupt state in FLorida.
ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD once dated former City Commissioner SUSAN BURK, whom he once kissed during a recess in the St. Augustine City Commission meeting room. (Gross me out! Gag me with a fork!)
Anything GRAUBARD wanted, GRAUBARD got from local governments.
Local newspapers (like the WRecKord) rarely exercised their watchdog function over the zoning and planning decisions that let GRAUBARD's reign of ruin rape and pillage the natural beauty and history of St. Johns County and St. Augustine.
This 800 pound gorilla is gone, but not forgotten.
Federal prosecutors need to investigate him and bring him to justice.
ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD reminds me of what Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote in the Atlantic Monthly in 1881 about oil monopolists HENRY FLAGLER, JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER and STANDARD OIL COMPANY in Pennsylvania, where it was said "they did everything to the Pennsylvania legislature except refine it"
For those federal agents, plaintiffs, process servers, investigators and activists who may be looking for ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD -- including the ghosts of the Indians whose final resting place GRAUBARD may have destroyed -- he may now be reached in Chester, New York:
GREENWALD LAW OFFICE
Robert M. Graubard
99 Brookside Avenue
Chester, New York 10918-1033
Phone: (845) 469-4900
Fax: (845) 469-2022
Web site: http://www.greenwaldlaw.com
Robert M. Graubard (J.D., University of California - Hastings College of The Law 1974.)
Syracuse University B.A. Degree in History 1969, is of counsel to Greenwald Law Office. He has been licensed since 1975 in the State of New York. [GRAUBARD makes a material omission here, failing to report his disbarment and reinstatement, but what's a little flummery and dupery among developer mouthpieces!]
Mr. Graubard has broad experience in real estate law and municipal law. He has been Town Attorney for the Town of Mamakating and Town Attorney for the Planning Board in both the Town of Mamakating and the Town of Lumberland.
Current Employment Position(s):
Of Counsel
Areas of Practice:
Real Estate
Municipal Law
Trust, Wills and Estates
Bar Admissions:
New York, 1975
Education:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 1974, J.D.
Syracuse University, 1969, B.A.
NOTE: Just because ROBERT MICHAEL GRAUBARD went to Berkeley does not make him a progressive. No self-respecting Berkeley graduate would approve of what GRAUBARD has done in St. Johns County. His Berkeley degree suggests he's intelligent -- it does, however, reveal what I once said of GEORGE McCCLURE and the phalanx of hired-gun expert witnesses (a/k/a witlesses) behind him at a St. Augusitne City Commission zoning hearing: "What a waste of a good education!"
Gag me with a PITCHFORK is more like it. Why doesn't that surprise me?
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