Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a horrible human being. Even some of her fellow Democrats don’t like her. She’s a corrupt seahag. That’s not up for debate. She actively rigged the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton, and that ticked the Bernouts off (and rightly so).
As it turns out, her husband is just as shady. He’s facing a lawsuit for “trying to rip off an elderly homeowner.”
In the wake of Wasserman Schultz’s roasting in Democratic Party stalwart Donna Brazile’s book and the Weston politician’s failure to fire a tech aide who was under FBI investigation, her husband is now accused of trying to rip off an elderly homeowner, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Fort Lauderdale.
Broward banker Steve Schultz, Wasserman-Schultz’s husband of 26 years, allegedly tried to have 70-year-old investor Frank DiMaria hand over the deed of his troubled $4 million commercial property in Pompano Beach to Schultz personally, according to the complaint.
Because DiMaria was having troubles reimbursing credit lines and mortgages issued by Schultz’s now-defunct Community Bank of Broward, the bank would eventually launch the foreclosure of DiMaria’s property on the heavily traveled Atlantic Boulevard beachfront area.
But before then, DiMaria now says, Schultz tried to intimidate him into surrendering his property to him without the proper foreclosure proceedings in a court of law.
“Mr. Schultz called Mr. DiMaria and proposed that he sign the Pompano Beach property over to Mr. Schultz personally,” the lawsuit reads. “Mr. DiMaria replied by stating, ‘Are you out of your mind?’
“Mr. Schultz replied by stating ‘no’ and further stating something to the effect of ‘no matter how big a lawyer you get or how many, I will destroy you and them and you know I have the power to do it.”
Wow! Sounds like a peach! He’s desperately trying to save his own a$$.
In a phone interview, Schultz said DiMaria knows he is married to Wasserman Schultz and is using that fact for effect.
“Mr. DiMaria knows I’m married to Debbie, so he might believe in some big conspiracy theory involving me and Debbie,” Schultz said. “But that’s not the case. I couldn’t personally seize his property even if I wanted to.
“He is a crazy old guy who cost the bank a lot of money. Eventually, we had to sell his mortgage to another party at a $200,000 loss.”
But wait. It gets even more ridiculous. He’s blaming their “misunderstanding” on DiMaria’s Italian accent.
Schultz blamed DiMaria’s heavy Italian accent and lack of proficiency in English for the “misunderstanding.”
And he questioned DiMaria’s lack of business sense, saying that DiMaria overpaid for the 17,000-square-foot strip mall.
These people are so icky.
h/t Miami Herald