Carlos Siderman article from Save Our Oak Trees Foundation

We were emailed the below last night from Save Our Oak Trees Foundation. Here is the original link.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/08/18757090.php

Carlos Siderman, Property ID illegally bulldozed protected creek, oak trees, coastal zone

by Save Our Oak Trees
Sunday Jun 8th, 2014 6:46 PM

Carlos Siderman President of Property ID and Deer Creek Ranch Malibu was reported by multiple individuals to government agencies for illegally bulldozing a protected creek and oak trees in the Coastal Zone in Malibu, California. Carlos Siderman is currently under investigation by Ventura County planning, zoning and the coastal commission.

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Through the results of State Information Act Requests it was revealed that multiple individuals have reported Carlos Siderman to authorities for bulldozing a protected creek and oak trees. Carlos Siderman was reported December 2013, March 2014 and on other dates. Carlos Siderman was also reported for running an illegal business on the same residential property. In order to run a business in a residential zone he would need a conditional use permit which he does not have.

The December 2013 complaint CV13-0505 states Carlos Siderman "Brush or vegetation removal (oak trees)and grading without required planned development permits." (pdfhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyVl84ZlhnRWVrSkE/edit?usp=sharing )

March 2014 another complaint was made for "illegal removal of oak trees, bulldozing a running creek on protected coastal zone, running a business in a residential zone without a conditional use permit and illegal signs." (5 MB pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpydDF3YmRpNHBiaUE/edit?usp=sharing )

Carlos Siderman currently runs Deer Creek Ranch Malibu from a residence located at 10995 Pacific View Drive, Malibu California 90265. Deer Creek Ranch breeds, sells, boards, horses, goats and ducks besides offering horse rides off trail in the Santa Monica mountains to prospective horse buyers. ( http://www.deercreekranchmalibu.com )

Neighbors believe that Carlos Siderman bulldozed the creek so he could ride his horses across his neighbor's property and into the protected Santa Monica mountains. Carlos Siderman and his wife Lisa Siderman have been seen riding on this illegally created horse trail into the protected Santa Monica mountains off trail.

Earlier this year Carlos Siderman and his wife Lisa Siderman paid a lobbyist to try to harass their neighbor into moving. It seems Carlos Siderman has eyed his neighbor's property for many years so he can go across it to access the Santa Monica mountains on his horses. He also wants to have prospective horse buyers ride on these same off trail areas.

While investigating this land situation the true history Carlos Siderman has come to light. He and his business Property ID were sued by the Department of Justice, Department of Housing Urban Development and class action plaintiffs for violations of Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 ("RESPA"). Carlos Siderman was found guilty of giving illegal kick backs in real estate transactions. HUD forced Carlos Siderman to pay a $7.5M fine which is disgorgement of ill gotten gains.

"WHEREAS, RESPA § 2607(a) prohibits the giving or accepting of any fee,
kickback, or thing of value pursuant to any agreement or understanding, oral or
otherwise, that business incident to or part of a real estate settlement service
involving a federally related mortgage loan shall be referred to any person, and
§ 2607(b) prohibits the giving or accepting of any portion, split, or percentage of
any charge made or received for the rendering of a real estate settlement service
involving a federally related mortgage loan other than for services actually
performed;"

"WHEREAS, Property I.D. has agreed to pay $7,500,000, which will be
allocated among the three Berger settlement classes described above and which
will be available to pay Property I.D.’s NHDS report customers (hereinafter the
"Class Settlement")."

Full settlement agreement is below. Carlos Siderman, Property ID were sued in a class action by people who had bought their hazard information. (http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DOC_19714.pdf )

Because the illegal kickbacks, false advertising, unfair trade practices came to light his son left Property ID and started his own company. His son Sergio Siderman was then forced to sue his father Carlos Siderman for unfair and unlawful competition, defamation per se, trade libel, misappropriation of trade secrets, malicious prosecution, conversion, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and false advertising. (pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyb3NveFFiTEtlb1k/edit?usp=sharing ) ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/17/idUS251025+17-Jan-2008+PRN20080117 )

In that lawsuit Carlos Siderman's ex wife Mirta and his son Sergio made sworn declarations against Carlos Siderman. Mirta stated that Carlos Siderman lied when he said he started Property ID in 1974. Carlos did not even arrive in the United States until 1976. He started Property ID in 1994 twenty years later. (pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyNXZzdnZMZGppZlU/edit?usp=sharing )

Carlos Siderman's son Sergio also made a statement. Sergio Siderman states he worked at Property ID with his father Carlos Siderman from 1993 to 2007. I believe he meant 1995. Carlos Siderman fired his son when his son questioned certain business transactions and policies. After Carlos fired his son he defamed him. Sergio started his new business and Carlos tried to destroy it by defaming Sergio. Carlos went so far and so low as to send a defamatory flyer about Sergio's business to his clients. Sergio claims that Property ID made no profits in 2006 and 2007.

Sergio Siderman stated that Carlos Siderman lied when he said he is a lawyer. In actuality Carlos Siderman does not have a college or law degree. He most certainly never passed the bar. Sergio Siderman states that Carlos Siderman forged a law degree and hung it on his office wall. Carlos Siderman for many years at many public business events held himself out to be an attorney but he is not. (pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyNDlJQU9zSVdpVk0/edit?usp=sharing )

While researching further it was uncovered that Carlos Siderman's business partner in 1995 was none other than Horatio Vignali whom the LAPD and DEA suspected of being a major drug lord for over 20 years.
( http://www.laweekly.com/2005-05-26/news/la-s-underground-power-broker ) Horatio Vignali's son Carlos Vignali was a convited drug dealer who was ultimately pardoned by Clinton in what is now known as "pardongate." ( http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/26/news/mn-34745 )

Please, contact Ventura County Planning, the Coastal Commission, County of Ventura Compliance Division, Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy to express your displeasure at the bulldozing of a protected creek and protected oak trees in our sensitive coastal zone.

More information about this situation can be found here. Author is not related to this blog but found the materials in this blog. Author is only interested in the illegal destruction of protected creek and oak trees. 

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Commissioner Stephen Onstot votes FOR Isis Preservation conditional use permit

Commissioner Stephen Onstot votes FOR Isis Preservation conditional use permit.

Conditional use permit PL13-0011. Ventura County Planning Commission hearing on March 20, 2014. Irena Hauser, Isis Preservation, tiger sanctuary. Below is the transcript of the video.

"The applicant has met every test. Environment report came back negative declaration, use permitted in the zone. We have no evidence to deny the conditional use permit, of a substantive nature. I don't think there is any real factual disputes that would stop me from voting FOR the applicant. The reason for that is a perfect safety record, people on site, no public access. I look at the conditions imposed and staff came up with standards that don't exist in the code. That is exactly what they've done and I feel sorry for the staff, and I understand why they jumped through hoops. No matter what happens today it should go back to board of supervisors for further study so guidelines can be set. I feel the restrictive conditions imposed by staff would be stronger than anything from the board of supervisors. A two year permit. If you think about it, if any real problems exist they will be discovered. This sound situation is, as residents think it might be, then they can come back also. There is no credible expert testimony upon which I can deny based on sound, and sound is one of the chief concerns that I have. <snip> We don't have substantive expert evidence upon which to deny the permit based on noise. It doesn't exist now. Staff denied based on public safety and compatibility. Well I didn't see any evidentiary substantive support to deny on public safety basis. As I said conditions exceed all standards. Safety record is perfect. On a compatibility issue I can't see any distinction between this one and Lockwood Valley. And I don't think we should have two standards, one for Malibu and one for Lockwood. I'm not saying there's not a lot of work that may need to be done with the "wild animals." But as everything exists today, as the record appears before me I have no choice but to vote to support the conditional use permit. I mean tigers, that is what this is about. Everybody is scared to death. Who wants a tiger next door? I appreciate that but it's actually permitted. All the conditions have been met and exceeded. So what are we supposed to do up here? Invent a problem so they can't go forward because we haven't done our job? I don't think so. I think what has to happen, we need to do our job. This matter needs to go back to the policy makers to clarify this issue. But I'm not prepared to stop the application because we haven't gotten direction from the policy makers. As I said all conditions have been met. We have a negative declaration. I can't find a public safety or compatibility issue. And I'm prepared to vote to approve the application."

Commissioner Michael Wesner votes FOR the conditional use permit for Irena Hauser and Isis Preservation.

Commissioner Michael Wesner votes FOR the conditional use permit for Irena Hauser and Isis Preservation.

March 20, 2014 hearing at Ventura County Planning Commission. Conditional use permit application PL13-0011. 11077 Pacific View, Malibu, California.

Commissioner Michael Wesner stated "I concur with a lot of the information from my three colleagues and I wrestled with this one just like we did with Lockwood. So you understand the sieves that I use to go through the process. Property owner acquires the property. That property is subject to zoning and terms and conditions it has at time they acquired it. Part of that is they are in open space and they are permitted to have wild animals. Therefore then our standards stop. So first sieve they met. Second sieve. They apply for a conditional use permit which is their right under our codes. And that conditional use permit, staff does analysis. Does it meet certain criteria, elements, which they have laid out in the staff report. Then we receive testimony both for and against, day and a half now, almost 1000 pages, several hours. Yes, we're not the experts in biology, in a lot of things but that's the reason we exist. We have experts. We have public testimony. We are the ones that make the decision. What we are relying on is to be this average citizen. Yes, we bring our own expertise, background, whether it be waste management or security. But sadly the buck stops here, and that is what we get paid to do. So it's not an easy decision. I agree with the other commissioner. I wouldn't want it next to me. But at the same time I'm not out in open space. Lockwood set the precedent. Here are standards. We apply standards. Property owner has right to expect standards. And when it comes to a conditional use permit is it reasonable to expect standards can be met? Best management practices, qualifications of state, federal requirements for these particular animals, track record, history of the applicants, has documents, and we put this in a sieve. It comes down to do we want a pack of wolves or 2-5 tigers. So the question gets to the point, is there truly a question of public safety that staff has represented? In the capacity question is there enough evidence, information to sway my decision one way or another? And I go back to not only what the applicant's attorney represented but what my fellow commissioners have said. We have evaluated wild animals being contained and applied standards and best practices. So I'm really 51%, 49% here but if I'm going to go with the situation through the sieves I've gone through I would have to approve the conditional use permit based on the current standards of the situation that exist before this body today."

Attorney Charles Coate speaks for Isis Preservation CUP

Attorney Charles Coate speaks for Isis Preservation CUP.

Attorney Charles Coate speaks for the conditional use permit for Isis Preservation. Ventura County Planning Commission hearing March 20, 2014. PL13-0011 Irena Hauser of Isis Preservation. Lisa and Carlos Siderman are sitting aboveand to the right of Mr Coate wearing green hats. Carlos is wearing a black vest.

Lisa Davies Siderman, Carlos Siderman

Mr Coate mentions cell phone repeaters. The Hausers will be installing the very small personal cell phone repeaters, not a large antennae. They do not need a CUP to install small personal repeaters. The repeater looks like this photo below. 

Small cell phone repeater about 6" x 6" x 1/2".

People in this area have land lines and cell phones. They don't rely on cell phones alone. That said if a person does not get a reverse 911 voice call on their cell phone, they will see it in their voice mail. They can see it's from 911. I suggest they have a text option as texts take up less bandwidth and are easier to send/receive in spotty cellular areas.

We believe Commissioner Nora Aidukas was being unprofessional, rude and violated the Brown Act by not allowing attorney Charles Coate to ask Irena Hauser what type of repeater she intended to install. Again, Commissioner Nora Aidukas has a conflict of interest in this case. Her husband James Aidukas runs JTA Associates which is a professional consulting firm specializing in project design, permitting and implementation.  James Aidukas works for Carlos Siderman the neighbor who opposes this CUP for personal reasons. Nora Aidukas should have disclaimed this before the March 20, 2014 meeting but did not. We feel Nora Aidukas should have recused herself from this item because of the conflict of interest. We also feel that Nora Aidukas should not be on the planning commission as her husband's main job is to get real estate projects approved by the planning commission. This is a clear conflict of interest.

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March 20, 2014 hearing summary. Isis Preservation, Irena Hauser, conditional use permit

The March 20, 2014 hearing started at 8:30 a.m. The speakers who did not have time to present at the February 13, 2014 hearing were allowed to speak first. The previous hearing lasted over eight hours. Then the rest of the speakers were allowed to speak. Below are the commissioners from left to right, Paul Magie, Nora Aidukas, Richard Rodriguez, W. Stephen Osnot, Michael Wesner,

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Irena Hauser and Sophia presenting, Isis Preservation, Ventura County Planning

Irena Hauser, Sophia give their power point presentation

Irena Hauser, Isis Preservation property, no neighbors to the north for many miles

The opposition was mainly the elderly which were manipulated with the fear propaganda based on lies

Commissioners Michael Wesner, Stephen Onstot both stated Irena Hauser met every requirement, did everything which was asked of them. They could see no reason why they should be denied.

Irena Hauser speaks to reporters stating she is disappointed but she knows they submitted a good application and made a good presentation

Lisa Siderman new wife of Carlos Siderman who owns the business next door. They don't live there. 

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Support letter for Isis Preservation in Malibu, Irena Hauser

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyaEFlNDJXV2M0UDg/edit?usp=sharing

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Support letter from a neighbor, Isis Preservation, Malibu

Support letter from a neighbor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyVjJwcTlObnk2X0k/edit?usp=sharing

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Supporter letter from real estate broker, Isis Preservation, Malibu

Support letter from real estate appraiser stating the project will not affect neighbors, neighborhood and should be approved.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpydTRDRW9WSGVNdUk/edit?usp=sharing

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Support letter from animal friend, Isis Preservation, Malibu

Support letter from animal friend. Letter states neighbor Carlos Siderman bulldozed a protected creek, oak trees, brush and leveled land over the sanctuary property and the state park. These are violations.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyelFSZDFBZlpvNm8/edit?usp=sharing

Documents attached to support letter concerning Carlos Siderman. All of these letters and reports are fair and privileged as they are public documents and were made to government agencies.


Carlos Siderman history of lawsuits
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpySjRhSVdycW9nWG8/edit?usp=sharing

Press release about Carlos Siderman being sued by the Department of Justice, Housing Urban Development for illegal kickbacks. He was forced to disgorge ill gotten gains in a class action lawsuit. His son Sergio was forced to sue him for defamation and unfair trade practices.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyaGJKVlpOSW5SZ1k/edit?usp=sharing

Carlos Siderman was sued by his son Sergio for many horrible things
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyb3NveFFiTEtlb1k/edit?usp=sharing

Sworn statement by Mirta Carlos Siderman's ex-wife of many years. She states he lies about starting Property ID in 1976. He started it in 1994. He did not graduate from college even though he tells people he's a real estate attorney
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyNXZzdnZMZGppZlU/edit?usp=sharing

Sworn statement by Sergio Carlos Siderman's son. He states he forged a law school diploma and put it on his office wall. He did not even finish college. He tells people he's a lawyer when he's not. He lied about the amount of insurance he had on Property ID products. Many other horrible things
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyNDlJQU9zSVdpVk0/edit?usp=sharing


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Support letter from real estate appraiser, Isis Preservation, Malibu

Support letter from appraiser February 3, 2014. Letter states project will not affect the neighbors in any way. The project complies with all the requirements and the conditional use permit should be approved.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyZ1FVb2pkcjNjTFk/edit?usp=sharing

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Support letter from Rob Dean for Isis Preservation conditional use permit

A support letter from Rob Dean for Isis Preservation. He talks about how he received false negative information about the project, did his own research and came to support the sanctuary.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyTEtJdnBoSUpBTmc/edit?usp=sharing

Isis Preservation received negative declaration from Ventura County Planning

The Ventura County Planning Department gave a negative declaration for the project. That means the project would not affect the neighbors, environment, public safety or anything else. They basically approved the project. Below is that negative declaration as a pdf. It's a big file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QQek7gVUpyRlg4MUY5ZTZTX2M/edit?usp=sharing

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