ARE COMEGYS, SMITH & SHIELDS IN BED WITH A SCAM ARTIST ON THE "NORTH PRONG" LAND DEAL?

Take a minute and "google" one Bernard Kapiloff, a/k/a "SALKAP, LLC," who wants to sell to the City of Salisbury for $50,000 the same property that he purchased for $10,000 just a few years ago, known to be contaminated from when it was an oil storage facility.

Here’s a sample of what one finds:　

This is from an article from the Baltimore Sun newspaper:

By Ariel Sabar, Sun Staff

December 24, 2001

City and state officials say that a North Baltimore doctor and newspaper publisher is responsible for one of the largest illegal tire junkyards in Maryland, and they are asking a District Court judge to force him to clean it up.

Dr. Bernard Kapiloff, a retired plastic surgeon, has failed for seven months to make good on promises to clean up his company's condemned 3-acre lot on a desolate dead end in Park Heights, officials say. The roughly 18,000 tires that fill a building and rusty trailers there make it one of the state's biggest unauthorized tire dumps, according to Maryland environmental officials.

"What stands out here is the size and type of violation," says Michael E. Braverman, chief of code enforcement for the city Department of Housing and Community Development. " This is an enormous snub to municipal government."

City officials say the case, filed Thursday in District Court, is part of a campaign against the heaps of refuse that mar poor sections of the city. They say this case is particularly worrisome because of the large number of tires, which are breeding grounds for mosquitos and rats and can lead to fires.

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This is from a court opinion from 1998 that begins as follows:

Bernard and Lynn Kapiloff own six commercial properties in Balti- more City, which are located in high risk areas and have been par tially vacant over the years. Portions of one property were vandalized in December 1994 and again in March 1995, and a fire broke out in another property in February 1995. The Kapiloffs submitted claims totaling $668,421 to United Capitol Insurance Company, their insurer, for those losses. United Capitol denied the claims because of "misrepresentations, omissions, and concealments" about the properties and, alternatively, because the properties violated the "vacancy" and "protective safeguards" conditions in its policy. Thereafter, United Capitol sued the Kapiloffs for a declaratory judgment, and the Kapiloffs filed a counterclaim for breach of contract. They also joined their insurance brokers as parties, alleging negligence.

Ruling that the properties were either vacant or lacked protective safeguards and that the "vacancy" and "protective safeguards" conditions in the insurance policy operated to exclude coverage for the losses, the district court entered summary judgment in favor of United Capitol. It also ruled in favor of the insurance brokers who procured the United Capitol policy on behalf of the Kapiloffs on the grounds that suitable insurance was not available in the market and that one broker was not an agent of the Kapiloffs. For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

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This is from an announcement by Maryland’s Environment Department:

Bernard Kapiloff & DAB –Andard Ltd. Partnership Baltimore City were issued a Complaint, Order and two $5,000 Civil Penalties on Dec. 1 for illegal storage and disposal of scrap tires on two Baltimore City properties.

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Are you really surprised that the three stooges want to befriend this guy?

And when you google, check the EPA’s report on the Lake Street property that the City wants to buy without doing ordinary due diligence under the circumstances:

http://iaspub.epa.gov/Cleanups/RcraProfile.jsp?handler_id=MDA000031656#solution_cleanup_process_progress