Maryland,"A State of Corruption"
That will bring you up to early 1999 when I began to collaborate with two other individuals who were targeted by a Mark Sapperstein & others involving a similiar scheme which Sapperstein and his associates pulled on me.
By mid 1999 these two other individuals had filed a $15 million lawsuit against Mark Sapperstein for alleged fraud.
In early 1998 during the time Mark Sapperstein was being sued for alleged racketeering he and another individual bought controlling interest in a Maryland Bank.
By late 2001 Sapperstein and his associates were forced by the FDIC to sign a cease & desist order concerning their questionable conduct in the operation of this bank.
What makes this so interesting is that in early 1998 Sapperstein had filed an affidavit as a defendant in my Florida RICO that he had never engaged in any business activities in Florida.
Later I would obtain copies of a where a corporation in Sarasota,Florida in late 1997 had paid Mark Sapperstein over $8 million personally for some Maryland cellular tower assets that Sapperstein had obtained thru questionable means.(It was this $8 million that Sapperstein used to purchase controlling interest in this MD. bank)
This corporation in Florida had bundled these assets obtained from Sapperstein into a $325 million IPO.
The company and certain of it's officers have been the subject of an SEC investigation and in the Spring of 2001 this company was the focus of several class action law suits,almost identical scenario as the ENRON case.
The FBI in Maryland & Florida are refusing to investigate claiming I'm only involved in a business dispute with these individuals I sued for alleged racketeering, but at the same time refusing to conduct a legitimate interview with me and refusing to allow me to enter documents into the record.
My position is that the FBI are simply "rolling over" and "laying down"in the presence of white collar organized crime in both Maryland & Florida that is politically well connected to the Maryland Attorney General and the former U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Lynn Battaglia.
In the Spring of 2001 Senator Orrin Hatch was advised that the DOJ was conducting an investigation into the former U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Lynne Battaglia, her Chief of White Collar Crime, Dale Kelberman, and the head of the Maryland State Police, David B. Mitchell for alleged corruption.
Sorry,there is no short answer to your question.