Posted on 12/04/2016 9:52:56 AM PST by artichokegrower
Just three weeks before Friday’s deadly fire, city building inspectors had launched an investigation into “illegal structures” built inside the converted warehouse dubbed the “Ghost Ship,” but officials conceded Saturday they had been unable to gain access during an inspection visit and it appears they did not follow up.
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Darin Ranelletti Oakland’s interim director of planning and building - should be fired
owned by Chor N. Ng of Oakland - should be arrested
Records show Ng owns 11 other Oakland properties, including an art gallery and retail building on International Boulevard, and at least two in San Francisco. A tenant at one of the Oakland properties would only describe her as a nice woman.
She also owns a business called Kingmaker Marketing and Consulting.
in other words a multi-millionaire
She will be sued well beyond here insurance limits. She will need to lawyer up tomorrow.
I would be very interested to find out how much the owner has contributed to Democrat campaigns.
Getting sued is going to be the least of her problems. Someone is going to serve some serious prison time and it won’t be anyone in the government.
Sounds like this inspection goes waaaaaaaay back.
Spot on. The City of Oakland was well aware that this inherently unsafe building was being used as a residence and a site for big parties or raves. City officials failed to enforce the law. The building should have been vacated and sealed. No doubt “political donations” were made to the right people.
If they had shut this place down and evicted all of the occupants there would have been a deafening cry from the freak "artists" living there (and their supporters) clamoring for the mayor and city council members to be run out of office.
in other words a multi-millionaire
Not anymore.
I wonder if it was arson by illegals or terrorism.
Why on earth would anybody expect Liberals to follow the law or expect a Leftist bureaucrat to do their job?
“She will be sued way beyond here insurance limits....”
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I bet you dollars to donuts that she has an LLC set up to own the property. That’s standard “slumlord” practice — one LLC per property.
“officials conceded Saturday they had been unable to gain access during an inspection visit”
BS. Fire inspector shows up, it’s all access. And the plans on file better match what they see on the ground, or the permit fees that should have been paid will be exceeded only by the permit fees to bring it up to code. This is gross negligence by a govt agency— the landlords won’t be the only ones being sued.
Apparently the Ng family let the property to an intermediary who sublet it to others. In such a case, who would be liable, the building owner or the intermediary, especially if the intermediary had presumably signed a rental agreement stipulating that the warehouse was to be used in a legally proper and responsible manner, and if (perhaps) the intermediary repeatedly lied to the owner about the exact details of the subletting (and the events)? I am not arguing that any specific person be let off the hook but just that due diligence be performed on who exactly the responsible party or parties are in this type of situation.
I bet you dollars to donuts that she has an LLC set up to own the property. That’s standard “slumlord” practice — one LLC per property.
That's not just standard "slumlord" practice -- it's a sound business practice for any reputable property owner. Do you think all of Trump's properties have his own name on the titles?
These trendy cities have a problem with what to do with their population that can't afford the rents. They don't want to provide middle and low-income housing. So they let this stuff go on.
Ahh ... lighten up Frances. I didn’t say only slumlords held multiple properties each under a separate LLC.
I’ve owned multi-unit properties in Los Angeles in the past, and when they come to do their inspections there’s no such thing as “unable to gain access” in their vocabulary.
I would be interested in seeing who she donated to in city government....
Civil suits are the least of her worries. Multiple counts of involuntary manslaughter are what she’s likely to face, given how she failed to keep the place up.
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