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Special Report: Renting apartments to Haitians is big business for Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, others
Buckeye Reporter ^ | 09/20/2024 | Buckeye Reporter reports

Posted on 09/20/2024 2:50:59 PM PDT by DFG

A Buckeye Reporter investigation has confirmed that Mayor Rob Rue of Springfield, Ohio, is renting out apartments in buildings that he owns to Haitian immigrants—a move that some local residents are calling a conflict of interest.

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A few blocks away from Little and Rue Funeral Home, also owned by Rue, a 37-year-old man who introduced himself as “Works” lives in an apartment on an estate worth an estimated $1.3 million.

Works told Buckeye Reporter that he and other Haitian immigrants reside in properties owned by Rue.

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According to public records, Rue owns several rental properties in Springfield through his company, Littleton Properties of Springfield LLC.

In addition to being the mayor, Rue is the President and General Manager of Littleton & Rue Funeral Home.

Rue became the Mayor of Springfield in 2023 and previously served as City Commissioner and Assistant Mayor, and is actively involved in local community boards.

Several residents have expressed disappointment with Rue’s leadership, suspecting he may have ulterior motives as he has overseen a significant influx of Haitian immigrants over the past two years.

Approximately 20,000 immigrants from Haiti have been brought into the community, with rumors suggesting that another 10,000 may arrive.

(Excerpt) Read more at buckeyereporter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestrobrue; corrupt; followthemoney; graft; haiti; haitian; mayor; ohio; robrue; springfield; treason
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1 posted on 09/20/2024 2:50:59 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

May this sleazy, slimy slug rue the day he started doing this traitorous shenanigans to his own town.

2 posted on 09/20/2024 2:57:52 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: DFG

Another story that will never see the light in corporate media.


3 posted on 09/20/2024 2:58:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG
One sees far more of this sort of petty self-serving corruption at the state and local level than at the federal level. So this is no surprise at all. None whatsoever.

And partisan identification has nothing to do with it either. Zero.

4 posted on 09/20/2024 3:05:22 PM PDT by DSH
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To: DFG

I see the word “illegal” a lot. A lot of the Haitians have Temporary Protected Status, which makes them legal. Does this community act as a magnet for illegal border crossers? I would think it does.


5 posted on 09/20/2024 3:07:54 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DFG

There’s BIG money selling out America


6 posted on 09/20/2024 3:08:10 PM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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To: DFG

DO THEY HAVE RECALL?


7 posted on 09/20/2024 3:08:45 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: DFG

What’s going on is U.S. taxpayer dollars are being laundered through the Haitians to local politicians. It’s the old story of how the government uses taxpayer dollars to bribe greedy politicians to participate in corrupt government policies.


8 posted on 09/20/2024 3:09:17 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: DFG

Approximately 20,000 immigrants from Haiti have been brought into the community, with rumors suggesting that another 10,000 may arrive.

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Has the mayor got all the “new arrivals” registered to vote on the motor voter program?


9 posted on 09/20/2024 3:09:51 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: DFG

You want the Haitians so bad never bitch to us again. Live with it


10 posted on 09/20/2024 3:10:58 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: DFG

And who pays their rent?


11 posted on 09/20/2024 3:12:38 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: DFG

🤔😂. No wonder he’s saying: “Haitian problem? Never heard of it.”. Typical politician scumbag lyin’ POS.


12 posted on 09/20/2024 3:15:27 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: DFG
Renting apartments to Haitians is big business for Springfield Mayor Rob Rue

With a name like that, the people of Springfield should have known they would "Rue the day" they elected him.

I'll bet they feel Robbed.

13 posted on 09/20/2024 3:15:52 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DSH
One sees far more of this sort of petty self-serving corruption at the state and local level than at the federal level

Only because there are more state and local officials.

A mayor is the chief executive in a city, the local version of a president. The mayor make steer some business to his family, a typical ex-President gets $500,000 for a twenty minute speech from some interested business group.

14 posted on 09/20/2024 3:17:08 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: aquila48

Why, you do….


15 posted on 09/20/2024 3:19:34 PM PDT by Kozak (Слава Україні Герояам Слава. RuZZia is a terrorist state.)
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To: freeandfreezing

Simple.

Go over the rules in the city for recall. Recall the entire board. Put your people in for the special election.
Throw the bums out.

Start with signatures for the special election


16 posted on 09/20/2024 3:19:55 PM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter
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To: DFG; All

This story is repeated again and again all across the country.

(and all across the West, in fact)

The “Local Notables” are financially corrupted by personally benefitting from mass immigration and factory outsourcing. As well as things like Chinese battery factories.

Which is why the Repub Party as well as the other “Conservative” Parties in the West are so fake and treacherous on these issues.


17 posted on 09/20/2024 3:20:49 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Songcraft

He’ll move to FL to retire, probably.


18 posted on 09/20/2024 3:21:20 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DFG

Does anyone remember toward the end of the pandemic when all these investment firms were buying u- houses like crazy? Hmmmm, perfect rental properties for illegals who can live multiple families an a home.


19 posted on 09/20/2024 3:22:27 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefobest thing we c)
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To: aquila48

Subsidies by US.

So they can call any price they want.


20 posted on 09/20/2024 3:22:58 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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