[All] Fw: Fraud, Illegal Banking and Waterloo Housing.

Tue Oct 27 18:03:09 EDT 2009

FYI

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com> wrote:

From: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu at rogers.com>
Subject: Fraud, Illegal Banking and Waterloo Housing.
To: IgnatM at parl.gc.ca, HarpeS at parl.gc.ca, LaytoJ at parl.gc.ca, DucepG at parl.gc.ca
Received: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:00 PM

Dear Mr. Ignatieff

If you believe there are no issues between the mafia and housing, I would like to provide you with the following information. Fraud and illegal banking doesn't only come from Italy.

An investment company in Germany gathered 35 million Euros from 160 investors at a promised 7% annual interest rate to fund Activa Holdings in Ontario Canada. In 2003, Activa holdings declared a loss of $40 million Canadian.

On December 27th 2005 the BaFin (Federal Institution of Financial Services in Germany) has stopped all financial activity and the company is now being investigated for fraud and illegal banking activity. 

Here's a news story broke from Germany  linking Activa Holdings to Fraud and illegal banking activities. For an English version of the headline visit:

http://home.att.net/~fcwriter/news107.htm

I notified Liberal MP Andrew Telegdi about this in an email sent Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:21 AM. I also notified the Ontario Ministry of Labour, the City and Region of Waterloo as well as the local police. The Waterloo Regional Police Fraud Unit told me if I'm not a shareholder, I cannot file a formal complaint against. The city clerk Ms. Greatrix just told me it's third party hearsay and if the articles does not mention the city of Waterloo then it really doesn't mean anything to them. 

In my area of Waterloo Ontario, Activa is one of the largest developers and former owner of Decora Homes. They built my subdivision of Columbia Forest in Waterloo and there were many problems. On my own street, Star Flower Ave. workers built a wall of my neighbour's house without any insulation which had to be redone. This same house was built over seepage and it shifted loudly one day causing my neighbour, Diane Lord Cotton, a professional Civil Engineer, to evacuate her family for fear that the house may collapse. Later on they had to change the support beam on the semi attached to her home. These are in homes built by Decora when it was owned by Activa Holdings. 

In another Decora home down the street, wiring was faulty. They had to evacuate the family living there because it was hazard to their family. Decora had many similar problems throughout our area. 

My home never had an external inspection. They bricked over my dryer vent. 

I took on the matter at City Council and started reporting the unsafe building practises. The city refused to bump up inspections so after three years of complaining I finally contacted the provincial minsters. The staff at the MOE wanted to see photos of the infringements so I built a website and was sued for 2 million dollars by Activa when someone at the city or regional level leaked the story to the builder. 

The SLAPP was highly publicized. 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/11/13/1305275-cp.html

>From that point I got a secret call from a staff member of Activa who stated when they owned Decora the workers they used included undocumented workers from Portugal. They don't wear roofing harnesses because they get paid by the roof in cash. If they get hurt they get paid off, not reported to workers comp. The safety harnesses slow them down, that's why they roof without them. Many of them are not formally trained in Canadian building standards etc.

My cousin Will worked with the Ministry of Transportation and refused to approve an illegal road proposal for Activa in the Waterloo area and was beat up as a result. He arrived at my sister's home all bloody. Her husband is a cop with Stratford Municipal police but he couldn't get the guy to file a formal complaint because my cousin is scared these people will "blow up his house" or something. He said the folks from Activa are like mafia.

I wrote an email of this to Attorney General Michael Bryant on Friday July 13, 2007 at 5:50 am about this. This sort of information haunts a person.

At the municipal level, Mr. Mavin, the City of Waterloo's CFO is silent. There are things he can't speak of freely and I'm told there was an incident but I can't get anyone to talk.

During my SLAPP lawsuit I had construction workers call me about the scary stuff they've seen. They watched a local building inspector get the crap beat out of him on site to the point he had to be carried off in an ambulance in Kitchener. They called me to help and I contacted the Ministry of Labour but certain site inspectors told me physical threats are common so they just don't talk.

When I caught wind of the fraud links of Activa Holdings in Germany to Waterloo, I called the local police and they said because I wasn't a share holder, I had no right to complain. I sent my documents to the City and Region of Waterloo and nothing became of it. 

I've been to many meetings observing a lot of pinky rings. There are mafia folks in Waterloo Mr. Ignatieff. With the money and drugs and biker gangs it's only logical they'd be in the mix. We've got them here in Waterloo and I support doing an audit to find the link to Housing. It's time to do an audit.

Thank you kindly for your time. 

Louisette Lanteigne
700 Star Flower Ave.
Waterloo Ontario
N2V 2L2
519-885-7619
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