Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
David Strom offers his usual excellent analysis, but my takeaway is this: thousands of experienced daycare workers are going to lose their jobs, the number of available daycare centers will be slashed, and the cost of that daycare, already horrendous, will skyrocket, all for no improvement in actual care.
Progressives’ progress.
she did what???!!!
Gold Bar Bob says all that cash and bullion was given to his wife, not him — because they loved her so?
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez didn’t know anything about the gold bars hidden inside his home, his lawyer insisted in court Wednesday — blaming the pol’s “dazzling, tall” wife for stashing the trove away without his knowledge
The veteran Democrat’s lawyer told jurors in Manhattan federal court that Nadine Menendez “sidelined” her hubby — who prosecutors allege took the gold bars, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and a Mercedes convertible, in exchange for wielding his influence to benefit three Garden State businessmen and the governments of Qatar and Egypt.
“Where were the gold bars found? [The] gold bars were found in a locked closet. It is Nadine’s closet,” Menendez’s attorney Avi Weitzman said during opening statements, pulling up a photo of the closet, which he said was “filled with [Nadine’s] clothes.”
“The senator did not know the gold bars were there,” Weitzman told jurors during the remarks, delivered loudly at a near-shout.
[“When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.” Oliver Wendell Holmes (maybe) ]
“[Nadine] kept Bob sidelined. Nadine had these relationships long before she met Bob,” he added.
The feds found 13 gold bars worth over $150,000 and nearly $500,000 in cash when they raided the couple’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ home in June 2022 — all “fruits” of a corrupt scheme that began in 2018, when Bob and Nadine were just starting to date, prosecutors claimed.
It’s ludicrous to even dream that a trio of Egyptian businessmen seeking (and getting) U.S. approval for their ventures would stoop so low as to bribe the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — why, that would be illegal! — and it’s mere coincidence that they should fall in love with that politician’s wife, described by her hubby’s lawyer as a “beautiful, tall, international woman”, while they were currying favor in Washington. The senator? Why, says his hired pleader, the prosecutors’ allegations are “dead wrong; Menendez was just doing “his job” by reaching out to constituents and doing “diplomacy.”
He says it, I believe it, that settles it.
January 6th protestors, 5-20 years, after a year in solitary confinement in D.C., jail, anti-abortion demonstrator five years. The anti-abortionist chained herself to furniture in an abortion clinic’s , but sadly for her, she didn’t do millions of dollars of damage like the pro-Hamas demonstrators have done. If she had, she’d be a free woman today.
608 Lake Avenue, 4.68 acres of back lot, was listed for sale just now at $2.250. Its listing agent, a gentlemen not known for his reserve when describing a property, mentions its “meandering and beautiful [shared] driveway”, the suggests that “the current home and detached garage guest house could be renovated and expanded.” Well, okay.
67 Bedford Road, 4 acres and a decrepit house (“House is unsafe - please do not enter.”) came on the market for $1.299 million March 7th, was under contract by March 26th, and has returned to the active list today after the deal fell through.
It’s an estate sale, which usually means the heirs would like to dispose of it and move on, and there’s no mortgage on the property; sometimes a busted deal in these circumstances can open the way to a low-priced purchase from the disappointed sellers. Sometimes.
A 2016 appraisal for a foreclosing bank referred to the house as being “in deferred condition”, which I think is a much kinder term that “decrepit” — I may use it myself, next time.
32 Meadowcroft Lane has sold for $11.7 million; the sellers paid $7.5 for it in 2021, completely renovated it, and put it back on the market for $15 million a year ago April. They could have done worse: its builder tried for $12.750 in 2011 and finally unloaded it for $9.2 three years later in 2014. And that buyer, in turn, resold it 2021 for $7.5.
Ugly house, wnd one that contributed to the ruination of what was once one of the prettiest roads in Greenwich.
guardians of liberty
Trump has agreed to debate Ol’ Dependables, and the first is scheduled for June 27th, but if that NYC jury acquits him, and this 3X - former juror thinks they very well may, Biden’s grievous abuse and corruption of his Justice Department will be fatal.
This quote from Biden’s challenge yesterday will come back to haunt him:
“Well, make my day, pal, I’ll even do it twice. So let’s pick the dates, Donald – I hear you’re free on Wednesdays,” Biden continued, alluding to Trump’s court schedule.
UPDATE: Biden’s handlers have insisted that their puppet perform without a live audience in attendance; that Trump’s microphone be turned off if he exceeds his time limit or interrupts the Liar in Chief; that RFK, Jr. be excluded from participating; and that Fox News not host the event. I’m going to guess that they’ll also impose a brief — 2 or 3 minute — time limit for each question so that Biden won’t start yelling and/or get confused and wander, either off the question or off the stage.
Trump will still clean his clock.
Leading Democrats have realized that Joe Biden is hopeless as a presidential candidate, and that Donald Trump may actually win the election. Their desperation is therefore mounting, and they are pulling out all the stops.
For a long time, the New York Times has been basically a clipping service for the Democratic National Committee. But in the present crisis, the Times is taking hysteria to a level that might embarrass even the DNC. This headline, from today’s Times, is so over the top as to be unintentionally funny. But no, it is not a parody. The Democrats really are this crazed.
44 Carrington Drive, listed at $899,000, gone to contract in 6 days. Stamford schools and, just as bad, Stamford taxes — $19,100, in this instance — but Carrington has a Greenwich mailing address which, unless things have changed, will get you a beach pass, because the Parks Department merely checks an applicant’s mailing address, rather than conduct a survey of the property itself. that doesn’t work for schools, alas.
Still, who’d expect a bidding war to break out in our eastern neighbor?
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