"You mean Vice President Joe Biden?"
Posted on 01/03/2011 10:05:53 AM PST by maggief
John Parsons Wheeler 3d, a Vietnam veteran officer who served in three GOP Presidential administrations, and who chaired the committee that raised funds from businesses, agencies and prominent Americans to get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built on the Washington Mall, was found dead in a landfill a few miles from his New Castle Delaware home this weekend.
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BTW, it may or may not be relevant, but Joe Biden’s son is the Delaware Attorney General.
That’s a BF deal...thanks for the info.
Now that I’ve read all about his wife (spy) and his career (spy), and his neighbor’s home (mafia), it is getting pretty clear.
Mr. Wheeler told Mr. Marini the only way that house would be allowed to be built was over his dead body.
Retired SPY vs. New Mafia.... New Mafia won.
OR, Mr. Wheeler was ‘retired’ by ‘the agency’ and the neighbor feud was the perfect cover.
Am I the only one that has seen RED ?
BTW, it may or may not be relevant, but Joe Biden’s son is the Delaware Attorney General.
That’s a BF deal...thanks for the info.
"You mean Vice President Joe Biden?"
Many on the Clintoon room temperature list could also be listed.
Oh I agree! I'm very sensitive to people's property rights. (I live in Connecticut... home of Kelo vs New London)
My question - after looking at the properties involved on Google maps as was mentioned upthread - is: How can a private person own / build on property that is located on a public or private park? From what I understand the Marinis' property is in/on Battery Park in New Castle, DE. Maybe I'm just missing something here...
The Marinis have owned the property since 1998. The area is zoned Historic Residential, and there are setback requirements (e.g., 25-foot backyard, leaving 3 feet), so I imagine Jack Wheeler and his wife felt confident that no new house could be built there. The Marinis attempted to get variances. Jack Wheeler and his wife were fighting the attempts and the appeals that were filed when the original requests were denied.
Oops, Gondring, I just saw your post #95 regarding the Marinis owning the property since 1998. I apologize that I didn't see it sooner.
If it's true the Marinis own this property, then they have every right to build on it if they satisfy the "setback requirements", etc.
Yup... makes sense to me.
As I pointed out, it’s not on the park parcel—it’s a separate little 28’ x 105.4’ parcel.
More info...interesting stuff from neighbor! http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011101040338
Yes, and his wife donated to Biden’s campaign and he gave to Wesley Clark and another Democrat.
If they followed the 25' backyard setback, they'd have 3' to build the house. In other words, they wanted to violate the zoning, and Jack Wheeler was fighting that. I imagine he made the mistake of assuming they'd actually enforce the zoning.
It sounds like the Marinis hired a good lawyer and built a good case. The minutes also imply Jack Wheeler's behavior didn't endear himself to the officials.
i.e. a SPY.
FWIW, I traveled with a couple of other girls to 14 countries or so in the late 60s when I was younger than she had been, and I was neither a spy nor military. In fact, I had been a sheltered lower-middle-class Methodist girl who liked art and museums. My older brother had gotten to travel in the Navy, and I wanted to travel also. So I did. And it changed my life and point of view enormously.
"Neighbor reports that for four days over Christmas, the television in Wheeler's Third Street home was blaring around the clock..."
Hmmm...
Yes. We once had some silly trouble with our local select board, which took a year of lawyering to straighten out. If you can get ON the select board, that would make things simpler.
Blocking someone from cutting down trees can be a pretty good way of indefinitely halting a building project, too. It could be argued back and forth forever.
Do you believe in zoning? If not, how do you account for the commons dilemma? If so, should it be followed? If not, how can anyone in a community make decisions (similar to how unsure future tax rates prevent busines decisions)?
Just some things to ponder. I think the right thing happened here, if they are following the HAC guidelines and have historical evidence, etc. But it's not straightforward.
Is this the victim you are referring to? At first glance, he would appear to be a Republican, having been in both Bush administrations and seemingly "conservative."
bttt
Cops probe ‘exceedingly weird’ killing of Bush aide
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40904330/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
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Missing floorboards
Longtime friend and fellow West Point graduate Richard Radez said that in an e-mail the day after Christmas, Wheeler wrote he believed the nation wasn’t sufficiently prepared for cyber warfare.
“This was something that had preoccupied him over the last couple of years,” Radez said.
Wheeler’s house in New Castle was dark Monday night and no one answered the door. Yellow police evidence tape was stretched across two wooden chairs in the kitchen, where several wooden floorboards were missing. A woman who lives next door to the duplex refused to talk about the case, saying she had been asked not to comment. She did not provide details.
Though the police have searched the home, it was not considered a crime scene, Farrall said.
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