The City of St. Augustine, Florida: "The city [that] didn't get away with it."

Our City of St. Augustine, Florida has not yet explained its actions in placing the entire contents of our old illegal city landfill are dumped into the Old City Reservoir.

I've asked 90 questions since February 24, 2006, none of which have been answered.

On Monday at 8 PM, controversial St. Augustine MAYOR GEORGE GARDNER put out a misleading E-mail (see below).

As Lincoln said, "you can fool some of the people some of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

City of St. Augustine public officials act as if they had immunity and impunity for lawbreaking. (See below).


For those of you elected and City officials who suppose you got away with it, remember the words of DEP spokesperson Jill Johnson, who said to the St. Augustine Chronicle that the "city [of St. Augustine] did not get away with it."

DEP has an active criminal investigation, which (as DEP has assured us) is separate from the civil case that is proceeding to the consent decree stage.

The City of St. Augustine is likely to agree to a fine of from $130,000 to $170,000 for its illegal dumping, based on the state and federal cases of Clay County, Florida and the City of Venice, Florida.

The City of St. Augustine faces possible civil lawsuits from any toxic tort and retaliation victims.

FDEP is expected to prosecute City officials criminally, as the Justice Department prosecuted the City of Venice, Florida for its illegal pollution. (See below)

Anything less than criminal prosecution will be treated as case-fixing, and subject to subpoenas by Congressional investigators and investigation by local and national news media.

Florida's Governor-Elect is Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, who opposes corruption and wetland destruction.

Any attempt to drop criminal investigations of the City of St. Augustine, Florida by FDEP or other Florida officials during the lame duck days of the Jeb Bush Administration may result in criminal prosecution for those involved in any attempted coverups, as well as massive public protests.

Fully 45% of the people of the City of St. Augustien voted against "rampant corruption" in City Hall and we will be heard.

We will investigate any attempted case-fixing and seek indictments for obstruction of justice for anyone who materially misrepresents facts to federal or state prosecutors or who attempts to fix this case.

We will not be bullied by bullies, braggarts and retaliators holding public office.

Those who claim that dumping of 20,000 cubic yards -- 30 million pounds of material -- in our Old City Reservoir was "inadvertent" are lying.

Those who believe them are not doing their job as citizens or public servants.

The whole world is watching -- this blog is viewed by diverse people from St. Augustine, Florida to Washington, D.C. to New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina to Beijing, China to Aviles, Spain.

We're going to clean up the city of St. Augustine, stop its environmental depredations and expose the truth about misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance in our City government.

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