Somebody ponied up some money for the trees
 

Handled through an attorney

Someone wrote a check to pay for the trees

Great. A chapter closed.

District Receives $25,000 Check To Pay For Trees
 

A check for over $25,000 showed up today at the district offices to pay for the replanting of trees. It was presented through an attorney who said he represented the "Friends of Lake Miona".

Read all about it at the on-line news.

Hmmmm- Total costs suffered by districts= +or- $100,000

Reimbursement from "someone" $25,000.

Apparantely someone has a smidgen of remorse or wants us to shut up.

If only!! AND Another thread has already been started.

And or, did not want to be prosecuted for the crime committed.

Speculating - "they got tired wondering if the law, was going to find out".

Illegally cut down trees to improve both view and home value and escape criminal charges, 25k is pretty cheap for that person.

Finally there will be no more posts related to the trees being cut down!! :1rotfl:

The malfeasor(s) are getting off with a deal that is (another) steal! Looks like they took an offer they could not refuse.

So this "donation" was from the Friends of Lake Miona and not from any guilty party? Is the FOLM an organized, incorporated group with more than one objective, and where do they get their funds? Bless them for their generous spirit, but this crime has not been solved, and should be.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer! :ohdear:

And the beat goes on.
Why not just copy and paste your posts from the other thread?

Could be a PAC of some sort. Or maybe a Knights Templar type of group.

if someone doesn't want to read others opinions, you always have the option of NOT reading them by not clicking on the thread but that would make it difficult to troll

CDD 5 voted unanimously to waive prosecution if the money is received. :boom:

In July’s CDD 5 meeting, the “ballpark” cost of remediation thus far was estimated to be about $25,000. :boom:

WHAT about the fine? What about replanting? What about the 5+/- years of monitoring, estimated on another thread to be $2500 per year for about 4 or 5 years. What are the funds meant to remediate?

The offer by CDD 5 is ambiguous and poorly defined. Why does CDD 5 get to speak for several other CDDs who are also on the hook for a proportionate share of these costs.

It looks to me that the kitchen is heating up. Someone has blinked. Maybe more than one.

By gosh, we are not giving this up until we get our pound of flesh........

IMHO. Some want to hang someone..... but they don't have a tree. :ohdear:

Very good! :bigbow:

Don't forget they also have to pay their lawyer who no doubt has run up a lot of billable hours for research etc.

Just wondering. Why would anyone need to spend $2,500 per year to "monitor" a few growing trees for 5+ years? Sounds like a government project.

Their lawyers' billables hours are not my problem,if they have done an illegal deed,they should pay the whole bill and then answer for their misdeeds,what they did was illegal .Jail time is what the lady
on the square got,what makes this person above the law?

You're funny BS.

Clever. :eclipsee_gold_cup:

What happened to "it's not about the money, it's about justice blah, blah, blah"? Would running the perps through the town squares after being tarred and feathered suffice?

We got some money, but we don't have justice. We don't need to tar and feather. How about we just publicly charge these persons in a court of law and subject them to the legally prescribed penalties for the crime they committed, like we do with other persons in society who commit crimes? Clearly there is another standard of justice if you have the money to influence it.

Look at it as a form of plea bargaining. The state attorney agreed to not prosecute if the perps ponied up the costs to rectify the damage caused. It happens every day in our judicial system.

Do you remember your post (#83 in another thread) - "Apparently the amnesty offer has not caused the perpetrators to come forward, and why should it! Though I applaud the offer of prosecution amnesty, why should they come forward since it seems we are no closer to solving this crime than we've ever been?"

:blahblahblah::blahblahblah::blahblahblah:

I have always thought it likely that the perpetrator(s) were reading, and perhaps participating in, the other thread on this subject. Thus, I am a little suspicious of the posts advocating closing the matter. Bank robbers and other felons (and the tree cutting is a felony) do not get investigations closed by anonymously returning the loot.

It seems to me the perp(s) should have been required to make restitution for ALL costs involved as well as make a public apology to avoid doing time for their crime. Their continuing anonymity appears to be quite cowardly IMHO.

Except in this case I believe that was the deal offered by the authorities.

But how did the authorities come up with this deal? Who was behind the offer? What pressures were brought and by whom to offer such a weak deal?

Sure do. Who came forward?

This tree thing reminds me of another mystery in TV. The question, “who put up the wall” on the historical side was never answered along with why.

According to published reports, it was a deal proposed by 1 CDD board, and I would doubt if the board has that authority. I have never heard of anything like it before. A felon does not get off, elsewhere, by merely returning, anonymously, the loot. Only in The Villages, I guess.

:ohdear: Surely you can find a fresher scab than that to pick.

I read that this was cleared through the state attorney's office or the appropriate FL authorities.

If true, it would still be bizarre.

Are you saying there are other posts?:ho:

Deals to drop felony charges in exchange for anonymous restitution do not happen every day in our judicial system. In any event, I guess it's too bad for the perps that the Friends of Lake Miona, instead of the perps, ponied up the money.