People Involved

American Tax Funding (juniper, FL) --> Tower Capital Management (Foreign company registered in NJ)

How these houses were purchased

Tax Ease Lien Investments 1, LLC
v. James Morse, et al.
09-CI-01056
120 Burris
Dawson Springs, Kentucky

Tax Ease Lien Investments 1, LLC
v. Ronald R. Bryant, et al.
09-CI-01057
1406 Redbud Lane
Madisonville, Kentucky
MAP:  M-34-20-15

Crittenden County Meet Vultures in 2007

       A peaceful Kentucky county, Crittenden County met their vulture investors in 2007 for the first time. According the county clerk, Carolyn Byford, she had never witnessed a third party buyer buying a tax lien.  Tax Ease lien started investing by buying 37 liens, for a total price of $29,211. This was recorded by "The Crittenden Press" in 2007.

Lincoln County, KY, A legal victory against Tax Ease LLC.

        It is always a pleasent outcome when a victim starts a legal battle and wins in the court.
In  recent court records from Lincoln County Kentucky, a local circuit Judge stated in a summary judgment that Attorney Fee's charges by Tax Ease Lien were in violation of Kentucky statues that regulates this practice

         Betty Martin, the property owner in Lincoln County, had seen her $254.33 tax lien soar to $1,246 before foreclosure action was even started. This was a clear violation of the Kentucky Statues.

I do not think this incidence is an isolated case and a possible heralding case for a class action lawsuit. Tax Ease's attorney is a well-known Kentucky attorney, Virginia Lawson, who is an expert

in real estate law. Mrs. Lawson had practiced real estate law for 21 years and it is very hard to believe she made such a basic misake. We would like to know the details of her relationship with Tax Ease Lien Investments. more importantly want to know how she calculates her attorney fees and her fee agreements with her clients.             

            

Attorney General Peter Nickles resigns

    Peter Nickles As attorney general of District of Columbia, resigns. He was one of the main advocates against abuses in the field ot property tax collections. He started investigations against companies like Chicago-based Aeon Financial LLC. He was one of the leaders in bringing attention to unregulated practices of major Wall Street Banks. According to the attorney generals office Aeon Financial is not the only company that they are investigating.
            "The imposition of taxes is one of the most feared powers of government, and when that power is transferred to a private entity, not only are they not accountable like the government, but their incentives are entirely different,” says Frank Alexander, a law professor at Emory University who specializes in Georgia real estate and foreclosure law. “The investor’s only incentive is to maximize profits.”

Publicani: Private Taxman of the Roman Empire

 Outsourcing tax collection to private individuals is not a new concept. It has its roots in ancient Rome and it had been tainted with corruption from its first days.The name for the private taxman was Publicani.
       Roman Empire, due to its immense size and difficulty in coordinating tax collection efforts, resorted to privatization of tax collections. Most of the Tax collection privilages were granted to warlord, senators or local nobility which was also called publicani.