Years before he died, Fred Angle set up a trust for his son and two of his three grandchildren. So his entire estate, including his home, is worth only $112,000, according to an accounting filed by lawyers earlier this week. And of that amount, lawyers have already gobbled up $45,500 in legal fees while refusing to pay for Angle's headstone. Ron Angle had to pay for that himself.Can you say G-R-E-E-D-Y?
In his report of this latest development, Morning Call reporter Riley Yates dutifully states that another lawyer trying to get money out of that estate, Janet Jackson, has asked the state police to investigate Angle.
You may remember that Jackson, who loves to contribute to Democrats, asked the state police to look into this matter over a year ago. In all that time, nothing has happened. Angle has never even been approached by the state police, probably because they realize that there's no there ... there.
Interesting thing about that letter. Both newspapers have adjoining offices at the Northampton County Courthouse, just down the hall from the Recorder of Deeds. Not many people know they exist. Someone slipped a copy of Jackson's request under their door.
Knowing that this investigation would go nowhere, somebody with an agenda wanted to muddy up Angle, especially since he's running for re-election.
Here's my idea of a good investigation. First, how do lawyers get away with scarfing up $45,500 of a $112,000 estate? Second, who the hell made sure that Jackson's letter fell into the hands of the press?
let the chips fall where they may.
ReplyDeleteBlue county, blue lawyers, blue everything. Guys like Angle are just asking for it around here.
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ReplyDeleteYou make it impossible to get to work on time. Too many good psots for one morning. Stop it.
Awww my heart goes out to Ron Angle for having to pay for the headstone of his father. ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Bernie, stop trying to make Ron Angle look like some kind of saint. PATHETIC
ReplyDeleteLawyers! TMC (Tribune) lawyers make the Angle estate guys seem benevolent
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2011/05/25/extra-extra-tribune-fees-top-150-million/
How much of the $45K related to the litigation to invalidate Angle's allegedly fraudulant will? Some of that may be at the Bull Dog's creation.
ReplyDeletePractically none of it. Most of that litigation was conducted by Janet Jackson. She is trying to get money out of the estate, but they have resisted paying her so far.
ReplyDelete8:30, Sorry for telling the truth.
ReplyDeleteI thought I read in the paper (this morning) that the estate (if you include the trust) was over 1/2 million dollars. Didn't the newspapers report that Angle helped set up this trust to care for him and his family? What is the whole truth? Sometingdonutlokrite.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to write things in a way to make someone look bad. I do it all the time, but I'm a bottom-feeding blogger. What this "objective" reporter is trying to do with his story is make Angle look bad.
ReplyDeleteThat's why he gratuitously points out that Jackson asked the state police to investigate Angle over a year ago. He fails to point out that this lawyer is a major Democratic contributor, or that her office is right next to Lamont McClure. He fails to point out that in all this time, nobody from the state police has ever approached Angle. He fails to indicate whether he ever contacted the sate police to learn whether Angle is still under investigation.
This trust was set up years before Fred Angle passed away, and was prepared by an attorney representing Fred Angle. The reporter fails to note that as well. The beneficiaries of the trust are Ron's children. That's the whole truth, but the beneficiaries are not identified in this story.
Bernie like i said before you must really be in love with this screwball. Angle,angle angle angle.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame when this kind of situation makes the news. We all have families. They should be off limits in politics...at least the death of a family member should be.
ReplyDeleteBut Bernie's just commenting on what the mainstream media have already written. That's what is a shame.
If I don't comment on it and point some of these things out, Angle will be tried and convicted w/o being charged. He gets enough trouble for things he really does, but this is bullshit. He has been hosed on this estate from Day One.
ReplyDeleteAnd the truth, and this is something he won't even admit to himself, is that Ron loved his father very much, and the feeling was mutual. Not a day went by that the two of them did not talk.
Even the business about him poking his father's foot is an inside family joke.
I would be perfectly content to leave this matter alone, but some people want to get political mileage out of it.
The Morning Call will publish stories and people will post comments like "When will this dirtbag finally drop dead? Scourge of the area."
ReplyDeleteA death wish is perfectly OK.
Like his mother used to say, "the wrong son died young".
ReplyDeletehey did uncle jim get buried yet? or didn't ron want to pay for his uncle???
ReplyDeleteRon is a human being, he bleeds red just like the rest of us. I don't like some of the comments that are on here. Absolutely not necessary. Please take the high road.
ReplyDeleteI'm no fan of Angle, but some of these comments reflect real sickness. Wow.
ReplyDeleteOK, lets take the high road. The article is accurate. It tells the life story of Mr. Ron Angle. He took $500,000 out of his old mans estate before he died for a "trust". He made sure he got most of the money in his pocket before Fred died. Now he will fight till Hell freezes over to deprive his disabled nephew from getting a nickel.
ReplyDeleteAngle is what he is and the article paints one of the most accurate pictures of this guy. It could have been written twenty years ago, or ten years from now and it would still be accurate.
You know what they say about people who refer to themselves in the third person. The guy is a greedy pos that even bragged to the reporter that "they were trying to rob the bank, and forgot about the vault", as he laughed.
There wasn't much left after Angle systematically took all the value out of his fathers estate. Nice joke on Fred's disable grandson.
Very sad and very sick individual.
Karma
"OK, lets take the high road. The article is accurate. It tells the life story of Mr. Ron Angle"
ReplyDeleteActually, the article is highly misleading, and your comment reflects that. Angle took no money out of his father's estate. His father set up that trust, and for years before he died. This is a point I made to unbiased Riley Yates today, who insisted I am just an Angle "lackey." You are at least the seventh person who got the wrong idea.
If angl wins how much do you get, bo?
ReplyDeleteHere we go with allegations of unethical behavior again. Not a shred of truth to them, which is why you won't dare identify yourself. An anonymous coward who goes from attacks at Angle to attacks at his friends.
ReplyDeleteOnce again Bernie, you and Angle are always right- every body else are wrong
ReplyDeleteWhat ever happened to uncle Jim ?
ReplyDeleteHey Bernie, we get it. You have been hinting about getting a new IPad. The laptop was for past services.
ReplyDeleteAngle and Stoffa owe you that new IPad for all the Gracedale muckraking and ass covering you have done for them. Enjoy, you earned it.
Yates is known to write well, but is very lazy.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this anyone's business?
ReplyDeleteIt's really a family matter. Because Angle is a public official, that makes it newsworthy. But Yates is incapable of writing fairly about Angle, as I told him to his face yesterday.
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