As law enforcement seems unable to assist me, and the person behind this campaign to defame me and interfere with my business and profession, named variously Oma Hamou, Oma Mcconnell or Alexandra McConnell is what they call "judgment proof" meaning she has no money, I must place this blog here. She recently filed Bankruptcy, swearing under oath that her only income is $2500 a month from her friend Jim Sproul's company "Reseda Screen & Glass", that she lives in rental houses in the Antelope Valley and in July she was evicted for non payment of rent from a house in Palmdale, and she has over $500,000 in outstanding debts.
I would NOT even have written here, had this person not continually written her own false and defamatory statements herself and aided and abetted other personae writing "on her behalf" for the last three years. If she doesn't want me to say anything about her, she ought not have been continually blogging and writing about me much less aiding and encouraging others to do so as well.
The woman behind all of this goes by many names: Oma Hamou, Oma McConnell, Alexandra McConnell, Alexandra Hamou, Oma Demian, Alexandra Murphy, are the usual ones, but there are others. The reason this woman and her "alleged" friends crusade to destroy me is simple. I learned about her genuine background, and she wants me silenced from speaking about it.
This woman admits that her actions are all motivated by her bitterness and hatred towards me, and this is the reason for her actions.
This woman, Oma Hamou, Oma McConnell, Alexandra McConnell, Alexandra Hamou, Oma Demian, Alexandra Murphy and her other aliases have a twenty year track record of FELONY CONVICTIONS, multiple arrests, failure to abide by the requirements of her probation for her felony convictions which lead to more arrests, many many civil judgments against her for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a history of writing bad checks, and currently she was arrested late in 2008 in San Bernardino California on a Felony Charge of Forgery of a Financial Instrument (she seems to have forged a large check) After 14 months of dragging the process out, she paid the Victim full restitution and the District Attorney dropped the Felony charge. She has a history of evictions and bad checks.
This woman also has a recent default Judgment against her in Los Angeles County, in the amount of $55,000:
Case Number: MC020860 HAMID REFAI VS ALEXANDRA MCCONNELL, JIM SPROUL, ET AL
Filing Date: 09/23/2009
According to the case, Mr. Refai, a married man, was "involved" with Alexandra McConnell, she kept telling him about serious "medical problems" and asking for "loans" for medical bills in the total amount of $51,000. This was confirmed by the fact that a woman who used to live in her house wrote on the internet THREE MONTHS before the suit was filed: "I lived with this lady, she is no good. SHE LIES. SHE HAS LIKE 50 CATS LIVING WITH HER AND HER HOUSE SMELLS LIKE SHIT AND CAT SPRAY AND PISS. She is dirty, filthy and uses old men for money I SEEN IT MYSELF. By the way Hamid's wife knows it was LIPOSUCTION you drained their bank account for, not cancer in your asshole. He had her sign a promissory note, co signed by long time co-conspirator Jim Sproul. She of course never PAID back the money. She, of course, never showed up in Court.
Here is the Final Judgment against Alexandra McConnell aka Oma Hamou and her "longtime friend" Jim Sproul:
This woman has been EVICTED TWICE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS FOR FAILURE TO PAY RENT AND GIVING THE LANDLORD BACK CHECKS.
Someone else has recently posted a precis of the criminal and debt history of this woman. You can go here to read the specific details for yourself:
http://www.omahamoureality.blogspot.com
I have put up a precis of the specific information for her victims and law enforcement here: http://OmaHamouVictims.blogspot.com
You are encouraged to share information you may have about her and her activities with me.
While Oma Hamou aka Alexandra McConnell claims to be a "Motion Picture Executive" her online anonymous "friends" admit she works as a Paralegal in the Palmdale area. She has no background experience as a "Producer".
She is nearly psychotic in her daily compulsion because I stumbled onto these actual facts of her past, and present, which do not coincide with the personae she wants to project to others.
This woman, Oma Hamou, Oma McConnell, Alexandra McConnell, Alexandra Hamou, Oma Demian, Alexandra Murphy et al, has for YEARS now, threatened me with civil and criminal actions. For years now, NOTHING has happened except more ongoing threats online. NOW HER OWN WEBSITE ON FEBRUARY 28, 2010 CONFIRMS AND ADMITS SHE AND HER "FRIENDS" DELIBERATELY LIED EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY SAID OMA HAMOU HAD FILED A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST ME AND THEY WERE LYING EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY SAID I WAS UNDER POLICE INVESTIGATION, SINCE THE POLICE WILL INVESTIGATE NOTHING UNLESS A FORMAL COMPLAINT IS FILED. HER ONLINE ALLEGED 'FRIENDS' NOW CLAIM THEY HAVE LIED FOR YEARS ABOUT THEIR IDENTITIES.
UPDATE May 19:
On March 24, 2011 when Oma Hamou agreed to settle her judgment with Bob Atchison and PROMISED to pay him, she asked ME to settle as well and asked me how much it would take. When I told her a mutual settlement on both sides was agreeable, she ran straight to the Austin Police and filed a Criminal Complaint against me for "extortion". After speaking with Det. S. at length recently, and after he expressed interest in her background and criminal record, he told me that no crime had taken place, I had done nothing wrong, he would not proceed with the case and that he "believes is is possible she filed this to be retaliatory and vindictive against me" trying to set me up. I am NOT being investigated for ANY crimes at this time, according to the Austin Police Department.
I am called a "criminal stalker". First, being called a criminal is Libel per se in Texas, since I have never been convicted of ANYTHING worse than one speeding ticket. As for a stalker, well, I have no clue where this woman is, where she lives, and frankly I don't WANT to know, nor can I care less. In the words of one of her attorney's, Dave. S. "the faster that woman is in my rearview mirror the happier I'll be" (yeah I have the email he said that to me in.). I WISH NO CONTACT WITH OR FROM THIS PERSON.
I do NOT wish this person ill, or harm. Frankly, I do not care about her. The less I hear about her, the better. That said, no one should ever be subjected to harm or danger. I DO NOT WISH THIS PERSON HARM, nor have I advocated, wished, nor advised anyone to harm her. Such allegations are baseless, wrong and defamatory. I just want he to leave me and my partner ALONE and stop the thousands of pages of defamatory lies she puts up and allows "friends" to post on her website in order to cause me harm.
This woman, Oma Hamou, Oma McConnell, Alexandra McConnell, Alexandra Hamou, Oma Demian, Alexandra Murphy has demonstrated she has no credibility. You can read in previous posts where she has outright lied, most notably when she filed a report about her business with Dunn and Bradstreet that was investigated by them and shown to be completely fraudulent. She has been promising to pay Bob Atchison $15,000 for over two months, even claiming she had the money CASH but could not use a bank to pay him, and had to fly to Texas with the cash to give him! This was of course all a lie.
Ask yourself if the following make any, rational or reasonable common sense:
This woman claims to be an actress and model, but for a decade steadfastly REFUSES to provide one single shred of evidence to support the allegation, not even a credit, reference or magazine issue. She says only "I was and I don't have to prove it. YOU have to prove I wasn't". Does that make sense?
This woman claims that her three felony convictions were not Her fault, but rather someone else's fault. Does THAT make sense?
This woman claims that her recent Felony Forgery Charges in San Bernardino are "just a big mistake" and "law enforcement and the DA" are on "her side" and "believe her", yet they STILL pressed charges and scheduling dozens of hearings over FOURTEEN MONTHS. Does THAT make sense??
This woman has claimed for six years non stop that I am being investigated by law enforcement and the FBI. Yet, NOTHING ever happened, I have never been contacted by law enforcement for any reason in those six years other than one speeding ticket. Does it make any sense to you that law enforcement is doing ANYTHING for six years now?
Buddha said Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Look at all the blathering posts she has put up on the internet, and ask yourself, do these things agree with YOUR reason and your own common sense? The answer is obvious.
As you can see, this woman and/or her cronies now LIE, falsify documents and use years old private letters to attempt to defame and disparage me, and Bob Atchison
Many people whom have come into contact with her call her a con artist and scam artist. She hangs out with convicted felons, even inviting these career criminals to live in her house with her.
You can verify all the arrests, judgments, evictions, etc for yourself with simple online searches.
You are free to email me with your questions, Rob@AustinWineGuy.com, and if you yourself have been a VICTIM of this woman Oma Hamou, Oma McConnell, Alexandra McConnell, Alexandra Hamou, Oma Demian, Alexandra Murphy, I encourage you to contact me.
250 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 250 of 250Oh, Hamou. You really ought to take another look at Judge Livingston's order granting your motion to retain.
It says NOTHING about your having proved anything and nothing about the merits of your allegations.
All it does is allow the case to continue. in other words, you are going to be given a chance to appear in court or to appear before a mediator (if Atchison agrees to that, which he won't) to explain why you were unable to meet any of the deadlines for process service that Texas sets.
IF -- and that's a big IF -- you can convince the judge you had good reason not to serve process on time, only then will you be allowed to present any arguments. Even then, before you will be allowed to get to your claims about perjury, you will have to demonstrate why a Bill of Review is a procedure that is even available to you, since you failed to appeal the original jury verdict against you.
If, however -- and this is the more likely if -- the judge finds no good reason for your ignoring the process service deadlines, the case will be dismissed.
You are flat out lying about Livingston's order saying anything about the merits of your claims of perjury. And you know you are lying.
As is typical with you, you brandish legal documents around and deliberately misrepresent them, hoping some moron will buy your wildly distorted representation of them.
About the only moron who seems to these days is, of course, Michele Biernat. And maybe Renee Kearns.
Don't forget Shari Porter, Blake. I am still trying to figure out how she could have believed Oma had enough money to buy a house. She's been a real estate agent for quite some time, hasn't she?
I must say, the silence from my BFF is becoming deafening. Perhaps she is on vacation? Or perhaps she is en route to join Hamoutown on the ranch. Kool-Aid for everyone!
RJ
Well Rebecca, that is one very good reason why the broker's lawyers contacted Patrick and are now in contact with Patrick's lawyer.
As her supervising broker, he is liable for her negligence.
Well, I'm tempted to say that, once again, everyone else pays for Hamou's conduct other than Hamou herself.
But in a way, she does pay. Just look at the life she's built for herself.
She lives hand to mouth and moves from eviction to eviction. She can no longer use her real name. She cannot even get utilities turned on unless others will do it in their names. She has to hide her past. Her son is a violent drug addict who beats her. The legal landscape is littered with outstanding judgments against her. She cannot even pursue bankruptcy, because her creditors who must be notified now know enough about money she has received from scams such as the Refai con but that was not reported to the IRS.
She has to be hauled around by Sharon Porter's daughter Debbie, lest she be picked up again for driving without a license, registration or insurance.
The only way she can pretend to have any money is by doing things such as she and Jim Sproul did when they obtained a car from BMW Credit Corp. and then disappeared with the car without making payments.
She resorts to writing checks on empty and closed bank accounts and winds up in one legal scrape after another for doing so. So produces forged and altered documents on those rare occasions she finds herself trapped into showing up in a court room.
No. The more I think about it, Oma Hamou pays a huge price for choosing to live as a grifter.
Her additional misfortune is that she also has a mental illness which compels her to seek attention and adulation and which prevents her from keeping her scams under the radar as any truly competent con artist would attempt to do.
She cannot stop these behaviors, as they have become the core of her self-identity. And they're going to continue to keep her exposed.
She's really in quite a pickle.
Hamou is forgetting that Shari Porter's daughter Debbie is the woman who drove Oma to and from the courtroom in San Bernardino when she was on trial for felony forgery relating to another rental scam against Huiku Batchelor, a 67-year-old widow.
It's going to be a little hard for Shari Porter to convince anyone that she believed Hamou was a legitimate buyer who qualified for a mortgage loan.
Well, it's official.
Patrick O'Connor now joins the list of landlords that Hamou says have all lied about her.
She said the Mortons lied to the police about her and her raiding of Don Morton's accounts when she lived with him.
She said Mrs. Batchelor lied to the police and prosecutors when she went to them for help.
She says Eric Cowan lied and that he was really sexually attracted to her, which caused his girlfriend to go on a rampage of lies about her.
Now she is saying that Patrick O'Connor is lying about her.
Perhaps Hamou should interview prospective landlords to try to determine their propensity to lie before she moves into their houses. She seems to have had a truly extraordinary run of bad luck with lying landlords.
Given her deep commitment to truth telling, the irony is just overwhelming.
I suppose there was a time, before the internet, when someone like Oma could have had a more successful career. All of the legal judgments would have been difficult to locate. There would be no easy way for those that she has scammed to communicate with each other. I remember the days before personal computers, or indeed any computers at all. When I was a student at Farmington (particularly ironic given the surname of her real estate agent), I used a manual typewriter. And even though I have acquired sufficient computer skills to do my job, there is still a part of me that can't grasp just how pervasive the internet is in our lives.
I don't think Oma can, either, to judge by the sheer amount of nonsense that she posts under her silly pseudonyms. It's all very AOL-1997, isn't it, with people chatting each other up under aliases and no idea that anyone could sit there, the way that Rob does, and tick off who is hitting this website. And now the victims are starting to find a voice. And I don't think you can stop this, Oma, and the net result is that your life is unraveling pretty quickly. Blake's description of it is harsh, but I suspect it is on the money.
He is particularly apt with the description of you as mentally ill. You are either a sociopath, as Bob said, or more likely, you have narcissistic personality disorder. I think that's what's up with the animals; unlike children, they tend not to be too demanding, and you can make yourself feel good by taking them upon yourself. I love Frobisher at least in part because I know he loves me unconditionally. That is, after all, what animals do. Believe it or not (and you probably won't), I was horrified by the idea that your grown son beat you, girlfriend. But as Blake pointed out in an email yesterday, what kind of life can this young man have had as long as you were in it? I knew at an early age that my career was going to make it difficult for me to give a child the attention he/she would have needed, so I chose not to have any. Your "career" seems to have been equally absorbing, and you also don't seem to be the kind of woman who can stand to be alone. You set yourself up for major conflicts, and boy, have they arrived on your doorstep.
Rebecca Jordan
RJ, I think honestly, no jokes here, that Oma Hamou has BOTH Narcissistic Personality Disorder AND Pschopathic tendency.
NPD: The unstoppable craving/need/focus to BE SOMEBODY: Calling herself a "Motion Picture Producer" when she is nothing more than a graduate of Albion High, with no training, no on or off camera experience to speak of, and for fifteen years has done NOTHING that resulted in one minute of screen time film.
The life sized photo of herself dressed up pretending to be a Russian Empress that she so proudly hangs in the living room.
The insisting on referring to herself in legal documents in the third person AND insisting on calling herself "OMA" all CAPS in said documents.
The total meltdown when people point out her hillbilly upbringing, her squalid lifestyle with seventy cats, her flitting from eviction to eviction...
Her twitter persona that she portrays herself as this happy successful RICH world traveller who follows Presidents, Government Agencies and the World BANK, yet lives in Palmdale and continues to be evicted and arrested on a regular basis...
The Psychopathic Persona:
her UTTER lack of remorse for what she did to Don Morton (who she at least STILL admits to owing over $20,000....
Plus screwing THREE different law firms for $40,000....
Plus screwing Mrs Batchelor, Mr Cowan, Mr Refai, Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Atchison, American Express, Global Insight, and the rest of them, and only calling them LIARS, CHEATS, criminals etc etc.
Her total propensity to make crap up as she goes along, lies upon lies with tales of rape, victimization, beatings etc without regard to the people she accuses of these made up lies....
Oma Hamou is BOTH, narcissistic AND pschopathic...a sad yet dangerous combination of mental disorder....
Watch her reaction. She will prove me right with her foul mouthed, unintelligible ranting...then accuse ME of being a criminal....
I was discussing her with a friend of mine who is a psychologist, and he made a very telling point. If she is in fact mentally ill in the pathological sense, it is almost impossible for it to be corrected, although there are pharmacologies that could be brought into play that might help some of the more extreme behaviors. If this is in fact merely a bad behavior, then Oma could be treated. But his conclusion, based upon what I shared with him over a long lunch, is that this is indeed pathological behavior. And if you're right, Rob, and she does have both of these personality disorders, it will be very difficult for her to "fix" it.
RJ
Authorities take away 90 cats from man in North Hills
By Susan Abram, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/05/2011 08:41:09 PM PST
NORTH HILLS - James Howard wants to save lives.
But the city told him 90 meowing cats and their litterboxes confined to a single RV trailer was too many.
Howard, 57, watched on Wednesday as officers with the Los Angeles Police Department's Animal Cruelty Task Force carted off the cats, mostly strays, that he had sheltered in a retrofitted RV trailer with an extended porch.
They took them all, Howard said, standing in the middle of a hollow trailer lined with kitty litterboxes. Only a bunny rabbit named Alice, a small dog named Scruffy and his own broken heart was left, Howard said.
"I know what people say about hoarders, but this is the opposite," Howard said. "Ninety cats is a lot but they had plenty of room. They were safe and they were warm."
Officers with the task force and with Los Angeles Animal Services would not speak about the case, saying only that more information would be released today.
But Howard believes they were tipped off by a veterinarian "who may have gotten mad."
He said the worst condition any cat suffered was drippy eyes.
The city cited him with a $19,000 fine.
Howard said he's been saving cats for 14 years. He got into some trouble with it before and left Los Angeles County. But he returned recently to purchase a large swath of land in North Hills where he said he was working with the Rascal & Chloe Fund, Inc., a non-profit that helps find homes for stray animals, to potentially build a sanctuary on his property.
"My hope is that they'll keep them together," Howard said of the cats. "We're hoping they don't euthanize them."
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_17021058
Here is the news release on that Cat hoader. The number to report abuse is at the bottom of the posting:
Animal Cruelty Task Force Finds Panorama City Cat Hoarder ACTF Removes 96 Cats from Motor Home; Owner Could Face Charges
Los Angeles: On January 5, 2011, the Los Angeles City Animal Cruelty Task Force (ACTF) served an animal hoarding search warrant in Panorama City based on complaints from animal rescue personnel, veterinarians and neighbors that the owner had refused medical care for his cats and was maintaining numerous sick cats inside a small motor home.
The ACTF removed 96 cats from the home, many suffering from upper respiratory ailments with obvious eye and nose secretions, dental issues exhibiting mouth and facial abscesses and untreated ear mites causing ear deformity. In addition, several cat and kitten remains were discovered wrapped in towels and plastic inside the motor home’s freezer. The case will be forwarded to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for review and the owner could face criminal charges.
One neighbor noted that the smell from the motor home during the late summer had been pervasive and that he had seen cats come onto the property, but had never seen any leave.
“Animal hoarding is dangerous for humans, for animals and for the neighbors,” said LA Animal Services General Manager, Brenda Barnette. “While cases involving a significant number of animals are rare, our ACTF stands ready to protect the community when we learn about such instances.”
The ACTF is made up of Los Angeles police officers and detectives, Animal Control officers from the Department of Animal Services and Deputy City Attorney’s from the LA City Attorney’s Office. They investigate blood sport crimes and cruelty against animals.
Reports of animal cruelty can be reported to the ACTF at (213) 486-0450.
Animal Hoarding in North Hollywood
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles City Animal Cruelty Task Force (ACTF) investigators found 5 dead cats along with 17 live cats and kittens at a residence in North Hollywood.
On November 20, 2007, at 7:50 in the morning, investigators served a search warrant in the 5700 block of Fair Avenue. The ACTF has received numerous complaints from the neighbors regarding animal hoarding at the residence. The neighbors said there are multiple cats and that there were obnoxious odors emanating from the location.
A 65-year-old female resident was detained per a search warrant. The ACTF worked in cooperation with the Department of Housing, the Los Angeles Police Department Hazmat Unit and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and obtained the much-needed care for the resident. Four dead cats were removed from inside the home as well as 17 live cats and kittens. Another dead cat was removed from the driveway.
The resident was placed on a mental evaluation hold due to her condition and the animals were placed into protective custody at the Los Angeles Animal Services East Valley Shelter. The Department of Housing posted a notice advising the residence was uninhabitable and required immediate attention before re-occupancy.
The Los Angeles City Animal Cruelty Task Force is made up of Los Angeles Police Officers and Detectives, Animal Service Officers from the Department of Animal Services and Deputy City Attorney’s from the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. They investigate human cruelty against animals.
Reports of animal cruelty can be reported to the Animal Cruelty Task Force at 213-847-1417.
Contact your local Los Angeles Animal Services shelter to adopt a pet today
When animal rescuers become animal hoarders
Rescues, shelters make up a quarter of the 6,000 hoarding cases each year
By SUE MANNING
LOS ANGELES — Linda Bruno called her Pennsylvania cat rescue the land of milk and tuna. It thrived for years as people sent pets they couldn't care for from hundreds of miles away — unaware it was a death camp for cats.
Investigators who raided the place two years ago found killing rooms, mass graves so thick they couldn't take a step without walking on cat bones and a stunning statistic: Bruno had taken in over 7,000 cats in the previous 14 months, but only found homes for 23.
In doing so, she had become a statistic herself, one of an increasing number of self-proclaimed rescuers who have become animal hoarders running legal and often nonprofit charities.
Rescues and shelters now make up a quarter of the estimated 6,000 new hoarding cases reported in the U.S. each year, said Dr. Randall Lockwood, ASPCA's senior vice president of forensic sciences and anticruelty projects.
"When I first started looking into this 20 years ago, fewer than 5 percent would have fit that description," Lockwood said.
Hoarding itself is not a crime in most states, but cruelty is and both can start around the same time — when one more animal becomes one too many. Rescuers take in rejected, abandoned, abused or stray pets. Some come from municipal shelters as they are about to be euthanized.
Psychological problems blamed
It remains a mystery how someone goes from trying to rescue animals to stockpiling them in inhumane conditions without food, water or basic care. No single trigger has been found, but dementia, addiction, attachment disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other psychological problems are often blamed.
"The root of it is really nothing to do with animals. It's to do with people's heads and how they work," said Gregory Castle, co-founder and chief executive officer of Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.
The focus on hoarding of all kind has intensified in recent years due to widely publicized cases and television shows about it. The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium at Tufts University is urging the American Psychiatric Association to include animal hoarding in its next update to its diagnostic bible.
Some hoarders develop a "messiah complex," seeing themselves as saviors even as animals die. One hoarder told Lockwood: "I wouldn't give one of my dogs to Jesus Christ if he came in the door."
Bruno was seen as a cat saint of sorts and she surrounded herself with volunteers who enabled her and rallied around her when the 29-acre Tiger Ranch Cat Sanctuary in Tarentum, Pa., was shut down. Some 700 people signed a petition seeking dismissal of the case.
Cats were found in nearly every filthy, stinky building on the 29-acre property. Many were too sick, starved or weak to get to the little food or water available.
The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recovered 391 live cats and 106 dead ones. Thousands were believed to be dead and buried.
Bruno, 47, was sentenced to two years of house arrest and 27 years probation. She was ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution and $21 a day in electronic monitoring fees.
Part two of the previous article:
Several agencies received reports of hoarding at Bruno's ranch, but it took months to document. Typically, the accused offer myriad excuses. They claim they are victims of religious and political persecution or contend people are lying or planting evidence.
It's hard to believe the excuses after seeing inches-thick feces, urine stained walls, cages stacked high with starving animals, dead and rotting carcasses, trash, fleas, maggots and diseases, said John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside Department of Animal Services.
A whistleblower tipped off Welsh's department in 2007 that a nurse, Sylvia Gyimesi, was euthanizing sick animals with a homemade cocktail of vodka and sleeping pills at the Best Buddies Rescue she ran out of her Aguanga home.
In a pair of mobile homes on Gyimesi's property, investigators found close to 150 Chihuahuas, dachshunds and poodle mixes, along with some large breed dogs. Welsh said the stench and squalor were so bad, he had to leave almost immediately. They found graves in the back yard and a paw coming up from the sand near a barbecue.
Gyimesi said a disgruntled helper had snitched on her after being scolded for not working. She denied being a hoarder and said she never euthanized any animals.
"I think hoarders use rescues as an excuse, a facade, a front and they don't recognize it themselves. Their animals are not getting care and they don't want to let any animal get adopted," she told The Associated Press. "I know I had too many dogs and it wasn't the cleanest, but I'm not a frigging murderer."
She turned all but 10 of her animals over to the county and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of animal cruelty in exchange for five similar counts being dismissed. She had to perform community service and has vowed to never run a rescue again. She has since passed all inspections at her home.
The recidivism rate among hoarders is usually 100 percent, so Gyimesi is an exception, Welsh said.
Gyimesi said it took her 18 months to rebuild her life after spending a day in jail and cashing out a retirement fund to pay $14,000 in fines and fees.
Fallout from massive hoarding cases has a much broader impact. In summer 2007, nearly 800 cats were seized at For the Love of Cats and Kittens (FLOCK) in Pahrump, Nev.
Vets and volunteers from Best Friends Animal Society cared for the animals, turning the compound into a temporary triage for the starving, disease-ridden cats who struggled to breathe in the 115-degree desert heat.Casinos held adoption events, finding homes for 72 cats. But of the 570 cats at the Best Friends 3,900-acre sanctuary today, more than a quarter are from the Nevada rescue still waiting to be adopted more than three years later.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38978396/ns/health-pet_health/t/when-animal-rescuers-become-animal-hoarders/
Cat-hoarding Spanish Springs sisters sentenced
8:36 PM, May. 31, 2011
The more vocal of two cat-hoarding Spanish Springs sisters was sentenced Tuesday to five days in jail over the sickly and fatal conditions of their 48 pets, while the quieter sister was placed on four days house arrest.
Both Lauretta Nawojski, 71, whom Sparks Justice of the Peace Kevin Higgins warned to stop yelling at him, and her sister, Jackie Pearl Haney, 72, are also responsible for paying more than $47,000 in restitution to the Nevada Humane Society and Washoe County Regional Animal Services.
The Humane Society has had to board the sisters’ 44 cats, which were removed from the Spanish Springs home Nov. 9, and Animal Services boarded the sisters’ four dogs, which like many of the cats also needed medical treatment. Each organization charges a boarding fee of $5 a day, Nevada Humane Society executive director Bonney Brown said.
Brown said the sheer numbers of the sisters’ cats would have caused some animals being held at Animal Services to be euthanized to make room for the additional 44 cats had the Humane Society not agreed to board them. She said it wasn’t fair for taxpayers or Humane Society donors to cover the bill for the sisters’ neglect. But Higgins said it was unlikely the restitution would be paid.
Nawojski and Haney live in a home described by animal control officer Kathleen Denning as squalid and “pretty horrific,” which caused the animals to become sick. Denning said four of the sisters’ cats had to be euthanized because of their illnesses, while many of the remaining animals need ongoing medical care.
So far it has cost $41,725 to board the women’s pets, while their medical treatment has cost nearly $5,000, Denning said. The boarding fees won’t stop until Higgins rules on whether the women are fit to get some of their animals back.
Residents who live in congested areas are limited to owning seven cats and three dogs, according to a county ordinance.
Denning said the sisters’ home was so squalid and unhealthy for humans and animals, the fire department had to ventilate it so officers could safely go inside the night the sisters were arrested on charges related to animal cruelty.
Both siblings pleaded guilty to a count of failing to provide adequate care to an animal. Nawojski also pleaded guilty to a count of resisting arrest after wielding a shovel at an animal control officer and telling the officer to leave her property.
Brown said Nawojski was fraudulently adopting cats from several local organizations that have limits on how many pets people own and make people sign contracts stating they will properly care for the animals. If an adopter has too many pets or is not taking care of the animals, the organization could ask for the animals to be returned, Brown said.
part 2
Higgins ordered that Nawojski undergo a mental health evaluation and allow quarterly inspections of her home, and he said that if she committed similar offenses, she will go to jail.
He sentenced each sister to a six-month jail term but suspended all but the five days for Nawojski and four for Haney. Both were also given a $305 fine.
The women are not allowed to own any pets unless Higgins allows it after Animal Services makes a determination. Higgins said he could give the animals to the Humane Society, which could make them available for adoption.
Brown said it appears that the women did not intend to harm their pets but that the living conditions they provided to the animals were cruel and unsanitary. She urged Higgins not to return the animals because the women are unable to properly care for them.
Nawojski told Brown’s agency that if she could not get her cats back, “she made it plain she wanted the cats killed,” Brown said. However, Nawojski told Higgins she said that because she was excited.
“I’m not a bad person,” Nawojski told Higgins in a statement in which she yelled often. “... my animals are my family. I wasn’t able to have kids.”
Nawojski said her home, which she said she modified to accommodate all her animals, got out of hand because she was too busy volunteering in the community. Both sisters also have medical issues that limits their mobility.
Hmmm.
Hamou failed to pay rent to Batchelor, Chipi, Cowan, and O'Connor and was evicted from at least three of the last four places where we discovered she lived. She filed a bankruptcy petition just a few months ago. She has hundreds of thousands of dollars in outstanding judgments against her.
I wonder who she stiffed to get equipment to house all those cats.
And that kind of expenditure on a house that she has been unable to purchase is rather odd. Unless, of course, she still thinks her plan to force the house into a distress sale is still on track.
Hamou won't tell us what date she told Los Angeles Animal Control she was leaving O'Conner's property... for obvious reasons.
It must be public record so we can find out.
In my opinion, Hamou has no intention to leave O'Conner's property and probably lied to Animal Control.
As of two weeks ago we were told
Hamou was vastly expanding her facilities to house more cats. It doesn't sound like she intends to move anytime in the near future if she is investing more money in growing her 'rescue' facilities.
How many does Hamou intend to place on O'Conner's property? We were told 70 cats and 15 dogs some weeks ago in an illegal operation.
This could be one of the largest cases for Los Angeles Animal Control in years. I am sure it will get a lot of press coverage.
Oma has been in Patrick O'Conner's property since February; is that correct? She says she is leaving in August. That is in more than 60 days.
A 7 month operation of her illegal cat shelter? Is that what it is? Can she do it? Is it legal?
What tells me Hamou won't leave in August, or September, or October...
Jeez. Is it just me, or does Hamou seem awfully rattled by the prospect that O'Connor now has an attorney?
I wonder how Shari Porter and Big Valley Real Estate feel about it.
Clearly rattled Blake. As for anything Patrick may have, as he has a lawyer now and we have been asked not to discuss it, Oma, you'll just have to talk to his lawyer about it or Big Valley's lawyers...
If you love animals we have do do everything we can to save Hamou's cats. They need to be rescued! Who knows what could happen to them.
Later I will post a number of organizations we can contact to help us save the animals on the O'Conner property. There are a number of them that are local and are dedicated to animal welfare, people who love animals like we do.
Bob the main point here is that Hamou is WILLFULLY breaking the LAW. She knows the law doesn't PERMIT all those animals, she doesn't have the licenses, but feels she has the right anyways to do it because she is OMA! and OMA! can do whatever she wants regardless of the law:
She drives cars without license, registration or insurance.
She writes bad checks over and over.
She squats in rental property until evicted
She files meaningless legal papers tying up the court time
She defies Subpoenaes
She defies Court Orders
She disregards Judgments
She failed to complete probation requirements until arrested as a FELONY FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE...
Oma uses the law as a weapon for her own use, not a shield of justice. She wants the law obeyed when it suits OMA! but ignores it when it doesn't go along with OMA!'s plans...
Uh, "Snoopy" --
Why would Oma go into "a state of panic" at the prospect that someone might call animal rescue on her?
After all, all those cats are living the life of Riley according to you -- er, her -- er, you -- er ......... Oh, what the hell.
GOOD NEWS! - there are several local - and legal - cat rescue organizations in the Antelope Valley who could immediately accommodate all the poor animals on the O'Conner property.
WE CAN SAVE THEM!
IF HAMOU REALLY CARES ABOUT CATS
... she will welcome the transfer of these poor creatures to a legal facility immediately. How could she object? This could be a great thing for everyone, especially the animals.
YAWN....
this is the FIFTH time Oma Hamou has posted she has filed a "restraining order" on us and the SIXTH time she got "court orders" for google to release information...
Seriously Oma...get a life.
This is really a win-win situation for everyone.
Hamou Wins - she saves the expense of housing 85+ animals. It must be frightfully expensive to house and feed so many animals. She no longer needs to worry about Los Angeles Animal Control showing up at her door.
Animal Control Wins - they have shut down an illegal operation and the animals go to a legitimate rescue organization.
The Animals Win - (this is the most important thing). The animals - they will go to a real, legal facility where they don't have to worry about eviction, here they will get the best professional care.
Hoo, boy. Again with the restraining orders. She's definitely back in meltdown mode.
And since Bob will soon have a contempt citation against her in Texas for failing to comply with the demands for discovery in the debtor's exam, she's not going to have much luck walking into a Texas courtroom on another matter while she's in contempt.
It must be very frustrating to be a career con artist and have someone constantly exposing your newest exploits. Very frustrating, indeed.
Uh, Oma. You forgot something.
You are the one who first opened up your life on the internet, making all kinds of exaggerated or outright false claims about being an actress, a model, a film producer, an abused spouse, the head of an international charity.
When one puts oneself forward in such a manner, they open themselves to challenge on what they claim. And believe me, dearie, there's a lot more information from a lot more people about you documented now than there was some years ago when you appeared in front of Judge Livingston. And there are a lot more people who now will come forward with their stories, now that they know they were not the only victims.
Sorry having your sorry-ass life and con games exposed has you so upset. But if you think you're going to be the only one controlling the story, you've got another think coming.
Bring it on, bimbo.
The High Price of Restraining Orders
by Bruce Watson Posted 9:00AM 03/30/10 Economy, Taxes
According to Michael McCormick, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, 2010 should be another bumper year for temporary restraining orders, with 2 million to 3 million likely to be issued. Carrying a cost of roughly $2,000 apiece, this will ultimately cost taxpayers at least $4 billion.
Over the past few years, temporary restraining orders have become the tool of choice for dealing with family disputes. Designed to protect abused spouses or cohabitants, restraining orders generally require the abuser to keep a specific distance from his or her family members and often accompany eviction from a shared home.
The Joke's on Letterman, and Us
The ultimate poster child for restraining-order reform is David Letterman. In December 2005, New Mexico resident Colleen Nestler requested a restraining order against the late-night host, accusing him of mental cruelty and blaming him for her bankruptcy and sleep deprivation. Nestler charged that Letterman -- along with purported accomplices Kelsey Grammer, Kathy Lee Gifford, and Regis Philbin -- had alternately wooed and rejected her with coded messages that he sent through the TV.
Judge Daniel Sanchez quickly approved the order but overturned it after Letterman's lawyers confronted him.
The Nestler-Letterman case seems to be an outrageous example of such frivolous injunctions, but it highlights several problems. Letterman was not notified of the hearing and was not present for it, so he couldn't present evidence on his own behalf -- an apparent violation of due process that let Nestler set a complex, expensive legal operation into motion.
Further, Letterman's ability as a wealthy celebrity to fight the restraining order wasted more valuable court time and money, but questionable restraining orders often go uncontested by defendants who can't afford legal representation. Restraining orders are issued in civil court, so defendants can't get free legal representation, which saves taxpayers money -- at the cost of justice.
More Than Protection
Restraining orders were originally intended to protect cohabitants against physical attack, but in many states, they've moved beyond that purpose. In New Jersey, temporary domestic violence restraining orders don't require a filing fee and can be issued to protect against "mental or emotional harm."
If a complainant could get a restraining order based entirely upon an unsupported allegation of verbal abuse, the defendant might then be forced to find a new home, explain the restraining order to an employer, and try to get it removed from his or her record. Meanwhile, the community is stuck with the cost of enacting and enforcing the order.
It was very easy for Nestler to get a restraining order on Letterman, and she offered no evidence to suggest that he endangered her. And New Mexico has one of the stricter systems in the U.S. -- a complainant must explicitly detail the harm that he or she has received, get a notary to seal the complaint, and pay a $122 fee -- proving that frivolous injunctions can surface even where laws are tougher.
part 2
Pennsylvania has a strict definition of abuse and requires petitioners list specific incidents of attack or intimidation to get a Protection From Abuse order. But more than 53% of the state's 38,544 temporary PFAs issued in 2008 were withdrawn or dismissed. At a price tag of $2,000 apiece, that stuck Pennsylvania taxpayers with costs of more than $41 million.
Many Orders Frivolous
When it comes to reporting on restraining orders, Pennsylvania is one of the most transparent states. Part of the problem with determining the actual number lies in the fact that many states don't publish their statistics, so it's impossible to know how many injunctions are granted in the U.S. every year. Watchdog organization Radar Services echoes McCormick's estimate of 3 million per year. Many of these may be frivolous, if Pennsylvania's statistics are any indication.
It's hardly surprising that restraining orders have become the preferred response to domestic disputes, given how easy it is to issue them. But their abuse comes at a considerable financial and social cost, both to society and to families that leap toward legal separation with a single call to the police.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/03/30/the-high-price-of-restraining-orders/
The part of the case I can't wait to see is when Hamou has to explain her posts that she was raped by an enraged man who was incited by these blogs to attack her and who muttered about them while raping her.
The judge should really enjoy that little sideshow.
Oh, and there's so much more. So much more.
I can hardly wait.
I was the victim of an Oma Hamou swindle. I won a court judgment against her in Texas and the Jury awarded me the full amount.
I am in the process of collecting my judgment from Hamou. She has defied both the subpoena of the Texas Courts and the direct order of a Texas judge (deliverd to her in person, in front of the judge) to turn over documents for her debtor's exam. Now the legal process here is moving to the next step.
She has continually threatened me and abused the legal system to avoid the judgment and my collection of it.
I will pursue every legal avenue both here and in California (if I have to) to collect the judgment I hold against Hamou.
I am not afraid of Hamou and her threats. I would not back down in the Hamou-Sproul murder plot against me and I will not back down now.
No matter how log it takes I will collect my judgment against Hamou.
Oh, I just love this.
Hamou posted that the answer was "Yes" to the following questions:
"1) Is there evidence that the defendant publicized true and accurate details of the plaintiff's private life? AND
2) Is there evidence that the effect of such publication would be highly offensive to a reasonable person?"
So Hamou is actually admitting that the truth about her private life is "highly offensive".
Well, there you are.
I think this is the famous "Lindsay Lohan - Paris Hilton Law", argued before the California Supreme Court when Lilo and Paris realized that People, Us and the National Enquirer were never going to let them go.
RJ
Let's just pray there are no sex tapes involved.
Fervently.
Hamou (aka Alexandra McConnell) is truly certifiable.
First, she posts some Temporary Restraining Order against Patrick O'Connor. Section 5 of that TRO says that O'Connor may not "contact (directly or indirectly), telephone, send messages, mail, or e-mail" to Hamou.
So what happens? Hamou gets O'Connor's contact information from Shari Porter -- after this TRO is issued -- and emails him more than 10 times in one day, demanding that he email her back about his intentions for attending the hearing to make the TRO permanent.
She even posts the emails she sent him on her "Ask Oma" forum.
What kind of moron gets a TRO against someone ordering them not to contact her, then herself makes the contact and then taunts and harangues the man on her website for refusing to respond to her emails?
The woman is a stark raving lunatic. A lawyer will eat her alive at any hearing to make this absurd TRO permanent. (Remember that a TRO is issued based only on the applicant's allegations. There is no hearing where the opposing side gets to present his side of the story and supporting evidence.) Which, of course, is why she never succeeds in getting her TRO's made permanent.
Excellent posting, Blake....
I think she's worried sick that O'Connor and/or his attorney will show at that hearing tomorrow and lay out what they know about her.
That was the reason for the compulsive string of emails she sent O'Connor the other day.
Hamou can neigh and whinny all she wants, but to contact O'Connor by email and demand he answer her after she checked off the box on the TRO form saying he was to make no email or other contact with her is the height of duplicity.
But as pretty much every maneuver Hamou makes is duplicitous, it's no surprise.
Wow. Out to Austin this morning and back to a court in Lancaster tomorrow. Even for a woman who has been in as many courtrooms as Hamou (and almost always as a civil or criminal defendant) throughout her adult life, this stuff has her hopping.
I wonder if Shari Porter at Big Valley Real Estate paid for this round of plane tickets. As the seller's agent for Patrick O'Connor, Porter sure seems to have a unique interpretation of the duties she owed O'Connor. It really seems she's much more in bed with the woman who mounted the scam mortgage and escrow deals.
Now why would Hamou purchase a ticket to Austin for a flight that wasn't supposed to land until 2:35 p.m. while she had a hearing scheduled at 2:00 p.m. on her renewed motion for a protective order?
When the case was called at 2:04 p.m. by Judge Hurley in Room 512, Hamou was not in the courtroom.
By the way, this motion for a protective order has already been denied by Judge Shulack on March 24. Looks like a pretty good case for abuse of process.
Wonder if Hamou's going to make it back to Lancaster for the hearing tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.
By the way, those tickets that Hamou posted to "prove" she went to Austin today are stamped "Priority Verification", which means she was on a standby list.
They are no proof at all that she actually was on a flight.
Uh, Oma.
There was no "delay" of your flight. Its scheduled arrival time was after the court convened.
Also, you only made the stand-by reservation this morning. So this was hardly a planned trip but something you did on the spur of the minute because your fanny is being backed into more cracks that even you can handle at once.
Another interesting tidbit. Your return ticket at 7:40 tomorrow morning was booked as a fare class (G) which is reserved for government employees.
Have you finally found a job? Or do you have a new fake ID?
Yeah, right, Hamou. You called the court numerous times about your "delay".
Oddly, though, the judge didn't seem to be aware that your were racing to the courtroom. Usually when word arrives that a party is going to be late, they just move the case to the end of the docket for the session and call it when the party arrives. That is not what happened today.
Also, once you missed your supposed original flight, what was the point of even bothering to get on a later flight that had no possibility of getting you to the court on time, only to return to L.A. the first thing the next morning?
And, finally, dimwit -- you are obviously reading this blog like crazy tonight. But all the hits are coming from your usual IP in Palmdale. Not one single hit from anywhere in Austin or even Texas.
Jeezum crow.
Maybe she does work for the government, Blake. It would be the easiest explanation for the budget mess!
And now she will be in Austin on the day of Bob's hearing! I see a Debtor's Exam in someone's future.
RJ
Is it a crime to use a government identity to purchase a ticket if you do not work for the government, or has air travel loosened up a great deal during the past year? That Oma! I suppose the airline should be grateful she doesn't stuff herself into a traveling cage and ship herself places for the pet rate.
Well, just got back from a very informative trip down to the Courthouse.
Seems nothing was filed yesterday on Hamou's Motion for Protective Order. Now since I left the court about 2:45 when she still hadn't shown, she either showed up too late and Court was over, she showed up late and the Judge said, sorry you're too late, or the Judge denied the motion. Either way, nada happened on that.
The Court Admin office was very clear that there is no "ex parte" Motion on Calendar for monday. Just Bob's Motion for Summary Judgment.
I wonder what poor guy she scammed to get the money she wasted on the plane tickets?
Getting to be too many posts. Started a new blog so please take comments there.
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