Residents along Legacy Trail Easement by Railroad Tracks Frustrated by Sarasota County and Attorney Bora Kayan in property dispute.

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UPDATE: Herald Tribune Earl Kimel writes, Federal claims court ruling could impact Legacy Trail right-of way dispute. From 2 days ago Feb 1st, 2022— An opinion in a federal claims court case may pave way for Sarasota County to pay landowners in Legacy Trail right-of-way ownership dispute along CSX railroad tracks. Mark F. “Thor” Hearne II, an attorney with St. Louis-based True North Law, has taken the adversarial track in negotiations. He has contended that the federal funds only pay for the right to establish the recreational trail and Sarasota County’s claim for additional use – including forcing landowners to demolish encroaching properties that, in some cases have included septic system drainage fields – requires additional compensation. That echoes the position taken by the federal government.

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HERALD TRIBUNE WRITES: Residents along Legacy Trail Easement Frustrated by Sarasota County and Attorney Bora Kayan in property dispute. Like their neighbors, the Dickies took care of the grass around the railroad easement because they believe half of the 100-foot-wide right of way is theirs. But after Sarasota County paid CSX Railroad $30.1 million for the right to the 6.3-mile-long railroad corridor from Ashton Road north to Payne Park, that long-held belief was challenged.

As contractors built the trail, (destroying 80 year old trees) signs warning that their belongings were encroaching on the linear park were followed by destruction of trees, fencing, sheds and – in some cases septic fields. The Dickies are among some 200 property owners currently represented by a St. Louis-based attorney who claims Sarasota County is exceeding its rights by – among other things – directly contacting his clients in an attempt to secure outright ownership of the trail right of way. He has demanded the county stop doing so and to properly compensate the homeowners. Brian Loughrey, chief deputy property appraiser for Sarasota County, said property owners adjacent to the Legacy Trail right of way have never been billed for the value of that land. “Those legal descriptions did not overlap with the Legacy Trail’s legal descriptions,” Loughrey said. 

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HERALD TRIBUNE WRITES: Deputy Sarasota County Attorney Bora Kayan, who represents the county on the right-of-way issue, declined through a spokeswoman to comment on the ongoing legal matter. In general, county officials and contractors have been quiet when dealing with attorney Thor Hearne’s clients but it was a July 9 letter from Donise E. Beehler, a senior right of way leasing agent for Sarasota County, to one of the residents demanding that shed and landscaping extended 9.9 feet onto the right-of-way be removed that got attorney Thor Hearne riled up enough to fire off a letter to Bora Kayan – reminding the attorney that the county was not supposed to have (DIRECT) contact with his clients. (I'm no attorney but it sure looks like Florida Bar Complaint time for Bora Kayan, doesn't Bora Kayan know the rules of law?). Bora Sabih Kayan is a lawyer who is able to handle cases that fall under Construction Litigation, Premises Liability, Insurance Defense, Personal Injury Protection and related legal areas. UPDATE Feb 1st 2022, Deputy Sarasota County Attorney Bora Kayan, who represents the county on the right-of-way issue, said through a county spokesman Tuesday that it does not comment on ongoing legal matters.

ABC7 WRITES: The county says it identified more than 200 encroachments along the railroad corridor through surveys, though some properties have more than one, including almost 90 within the City of Sarasota. Most of the encroachments are fences, but others include sheds, concrete surfaces, electrical boxes, satellite dishes, roads, portions of buildings, wells, portions of driveways and parking lots, as well as single instances of a fuel tank, deck, in-ground pool, paver patio and drain field. “These are all things that were all lawfully constructed. They were constructed with permits issued by Sarasota County, but now the county comes along and says because of this federal order, we’re going to demand that you remove it," said Attorney Mark Thor Hearne. However, lawyers who now represent these almost 200 homeowners say the county does not have the legal right to ask for this. “If that’s going to happen, then the federal government needs to pay for it, or if the federal government says they didn’t give Sarasota County that right, then Sarasota County is going to have to pay for it," explained attorney Thor Hearne.

SARASOTA - Letter to Bora Kayan re Unconditional Right.
September 24, 2020
VIA EMAIL: BKayan@scgov.net
Bora Kayan
Sarasota County Clerk
1660 Ringling Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Sarasota, Florida. 34236

FROM: Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II
Founding Partner
Thor@TrueNorthLawGroup.com
Direct: 314.296.4002

RE: Grames v. Sarasota County
Dear Bora: (STOP CONTACTING MY CLIENTS DIRECTLY)

A number of the owners I represent have sent me letters and a form agreement that Sarasota County is sending. Sarasota County is soliciting these owners to send a “check-the-box” form granting Sarasota County unlimited access to their private property. The answer for every owner I represent is “no.” This includes every owner on the northern extension of the Legacy Trail and includes every owner who is a named plaintiff in those
cases pending in the United States Court of Federal Claims Cheshire Hunt, et al. v. United States, No. 18-111, and 4023 Sawyer Loop Road I, LLC, et al. v. United States, No. 19-757, every named landowner in Grames, et al. v. Sarasota County, et al., No. 20-739, pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and every putative class member in the Grames class action. 

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In other words, every landowner who owns property north of Culverhouse Park (in the Grames class action). The fact that Sarasota County has elected to directly contact landowners who are represented by legal counsel and solicit them to sign a legal document Sarasota County prepared without presenting this to the owners’ counsel is very troubling and raises serious ethical concerns (FLORIDA BAR COMPLAINT?). A number of these landowners are older and have been confused by the form Sarasota County is sending and soliciting these owners to sign. Even more outrageous is the fact that Sarasota County officials or agents of Sarasota County are threatening owners with fines or penalties if the owner does not sign Sarasota County’s form. For some owners Sarasota County’s demolishing of existing structures and cutting of trees located on these owners’ private property subject to the rail-trail corridor easement has caused damage to the owner’s land that is not subject to the rail-trail corridor easement.

I must admit I do (did) enjoy my bike rides on the Legacy Trail since 2009 from Sarasota to Nokomis, before I injured my knee in March 2017. It sure is a shame how Sarasota County and County attorney Bora Kayan is treating the home owners along the Legacy Trail extension into downtown Sarasota. Eminent domain, sometimes referred to as condemnation, is the government power to take private property. This power requires the government to prove that the taking is for a public purpose (e.g. building a road) and to pay fair compensation to the landowner. Once a property owner (or tenant) learns that their property will be affected by eminent domain the first step should be to hire an experienced real estate attorney. "Florida law requires the Government to pay the owner’s attorney’s fee in addition to the payment due for the value of the property". It appears to me that the residents along the Legacy Trail Easement that are being bullied by Sarasota County and Attorney Bora Kayan have a legitimate right to file a Florida Bar Complaint on Bora Kayan for contacting them directly while they are represented by legal counsel and solicit them to sign a legal document, who the hell does this guy Bora Kayan think he is?

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Malik Faisal Akram Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Killed By FBI HRT Linked to Anjem Choudary of Al-Muhajiroun in Manchester UK

Malik Faisal Akram Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Killed By FBI HRT Appears Linked to Terror Group Al-Muhajiroun in Manchester UK. One of U.K.'s Most Prolific Antisemitic Extremist Cells Al-Muhajiroun is Regrouping. SUN UK writes, BRITISH hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram who was shot dead by FBI HRT Swat at Texas synagogue influenced by hate preacher Anjem Choudary of Al-Muhajiroun. The Sun has uncovered the Al Aseer magazine that was first published on October 30 and included an essay by convicted British hate preacher Anjem Choudary with a call to action. The magazine may have been read by Akram in the run-up to his “act of terrorism” as a second edition came with a write up on Aafia Siddiqui. How did British terrorist Malik Faisal Akram get a visa to enter US? Fury as it's revealed Texas synagogue gunman - with criminal convictions - WAS known to UK intelligence agencies but slipped through Homeland Security cracks. His family say he had a criminal history but somehow, he was able to get an ESTA tourist visa - which are supposed to be off-limits to foreigners who have broken the law.

“This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force,” the FBI said in a statement emailed to The Washington Post early Monday Jan 17, 2022. Malik Faisal Akram, a British national from from Blackburn in Lancashire, was identified as the individual responsible for the hostage-taking incident in Texas over the weekend. Blackburn in Lancashire is 20 miles north of Manchester UK were 2 teens were arrested in connection to Malik Faisal Akram and the hostage taking in Texas. Malik Faisal Akram was identified by the FBI as the hostage taker at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, near Fort Worth, which resulted in an hours-long standoff with police Saturday that ended in the hostages escaping unscathed and the death of Akram. Malik Faisal Akram entered the US two weeks ago through JFK airport NYC. Police in the United Kingdom have arrested two teenagers allegedly connected to the hostage-taking at a Dallas area Synagogue over the weekend. "As part of the ongoing investigation into the attack that took place at a Synagogue in Texas on 15 January 2022, Officers from the Counter Terror Policing North West have made two arrests of teenagers in relation to the incident," the Greater Manchester Police said in a statement on Twitter Sunday Jan 16, 2022. 

Terrorist Malik Faisal Akram from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead when the FBI HRT entered the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville on Saturday night. Akram is from Blackburn in Lancashire which is about 20 miles north of Manchester UK. Back on Oct 24, 2018 Hassan Butt, a former leading member of the Manchester branch of the notorious Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun jailed for 13 years. Despite Butt’s past publicly declared support for Al-Qaeda and his stated desire to die a martyr, not to mention his association with a fellow Islamist extremist subsequently jailed for terrorism offenses, his conviction was for fraud, money laundering and perverting the course of justice. Butt’s known involvement in Al-Muhajiroun dated from the late 1990s to around 2005 - a period during much of which its Manchester branch regularly targeted the city’s Jewish community; perhaps not surprising given that his family home was, and still is, located in the North Manchester suburb of Prestwich, right in the heart of Manchester’s Jewish community. The Al-Muhajiroun organization has been linked to international terrorism, homophobia, and antisemitism. It's former leader Anjem Choudary jailed for 5 years is back on the streets of London and Greater Manchester.

In the United Kingdom, Al-Muhajiroun is the most notorious of the domestic Salafi-jihadist groups. Young members of Al-Muhajiroun from Manchester and Bury have traveled to the town centre on Saturday mornings to hand out leaflets in an effort to stimulate "intellectual debate". But the Lancashire Council of Mosques said the 30 mainly Sunni mosques in Blackburn would be "outraged" to be linked to extreme Salafi thought. The network reportedly began meeting again in London, the county of Bedfordshire, and Luton, an English town previously known for its large al-Muhajiroun presence and regular Anjem Choudary lectures before his arrest. Through al-Muhajiroun and its various successor organizations, Anjem Choudary has influenced hundreds of violent extremists around the world. British authorities arrested Choudary in 2014 for supporting ISIS and sentenced him in 2016 to five-and-a-half years in prison. Choudary was released on parole in October 2018 after serving half his sentence. The government imposed more than 20 restrictions on Choudary, which expired in July 2021. British media has reported that former al-Muhajiroun members drew inspiration from Choudary’s release and started to revitalize the network, even though authorities continue to closely monitor Choudary’s movements and communications. Choudary led the now-banned al-Muhajiroun Islamist network in the United Kingdom with his mentor, Omar Bakri Muhammad. Between 1999 and 2016, Choudary and al-Muhajiroun were reportedly linked to almost one-quarter of the terror plots in the United Kingdom. On November 29, 2019, known Choudary associate Usman Khan murdered two people and wounded three others in a knife attack on the London Bridge. Other notable violent extremists directly linked to Choudary include Lee Rigby murderers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, London Bridge attackers Rachid Redouane and Khuram Shazad Butt, and suicide bomber Bilal Mohammed.

The London Bridge attack on 3 June 2017 fits the al-Muhajiroun pattern. That summer night, during the general election campaign and less than two weeks after the al-Muhajiroun suicide bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, three Islamists murdered two people by deliberately driving a van into them on London Bridge. They then jumped out of their vehicle and rampaged through Borough Market, killing six more people while shouting “this is for Allah”. One of the perpetrators, Khuram Butt, was a subject of interest for MI5 because of his associations with al-Muhajiroun. He had even appeared in a 2016 Channel 4 documentary, The Jihadis Next Door, during which he was filmed with people linked to the group. Right up to the London bombings of 7 July 2005, al-Muhajiroun openly recruited in towns and cities. Anywhere with a large Muslim population was of interest: London, Birmingham and Manchester, but also smaller towns and cities such as Luton, Derby, Slough, High Wycombe and Crawley and Blackburn in Lancashire UK


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