Peter Wlodylo

April 28, 2006

Evert Fowle

Kennebec County District Attorney

95 State Street

Augusta, Maine 04330

Dear : Evert

This letter to you is in response to a letter from Governor

1. Baldacci, that letter is attached to this letter for your review. The Governor

has asked me to ask you for help in trying to resolve this problem.

2. The problem is as follows. On February 23, 2004 I blew the whistle on Jeff

Kobrock City Manager of City of Gardiner in a certified documented letter to

3. Mr. Orman Withcomb, Director Department of Economic and Community

Development, 59 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0059.

4. This letter states specific wrong doing and allegations of HUD Fraud.

5. What the city of Gardiner did was to enact rules after the fact to disqualify

my eligibility to receive Government HUD money to fix my home that is very

badly needed and may collapse if not repaired.

6. The complaint letter was addressed to Orman Withcomb about this problem

about Gardiner committing these acts. Orman Whitcomb could not find any

documents of wrong doing and so could not take any action against the city

and of course the city denied any wrong doing,

7. I did find the official city documents that prove without question the city did

in fact enact rules after the fact to disqualify one individual , that individual is

me.

8. This is just the beginning of the problem with City of Gardiner. On April, 15

2005 I applied for a plumbing permit, to my surprise on April ,22 2005.

9. The city of Gardiner refused to issue it, citing a memoranda issued by Jeff

Kobrock and dated June, 10 2004, it says no permits, licenses or

authorizations of any type shall be issued to anyone owing the city any money.

10. Now the interesting thing about this whole thing is that plumbing permits

have to do with health and safety, after all where are you going to go to the

bathroom if you cant fix your toilet?

11. And also it is illegal, it is against state law, to make matters worst the city

of Gardiner sent the Gardiner Police out to my car to explain to me about

Gardiner’s rules about issuing plumbing permits.

12. What exactly do police have to do with plumbing permits? Exactly nothing,

so what is the reason, some threat maybe? No, I had already left and was on

my way home when the police approached me, guess what?

13. The whole thing was recorded on a digital recorder, from beginning to end,

I can send you a copy, no reason whatsoever except to use the law to

intimidate and to enforce illegal rules.

14. As it turns out I called the state inspector and he made them issue

the permit.

15. First they made an illegal rule after the fact to deny me my housing

money, then after I complain about that they deny me a plumbing permit also

illegal and send the cops after me to boot without any justification for

doing so, I can prove it, it was recorded.

16. Now keep in mind that the city did in fact issue me a building and plumbing

permit to start my project on October 25, 2002 before I complained about the

wrong doing on February 23, 2004

17. The fact is permits were issued before and not after I filed complaints

against Jeff Kobrock, lo and behold Jeff Kobrock has issued a rule against me

after I complained about him.

18. He says I owe the city taxes and this is the part where you’re going to

realize that there is a real big problem.

19. If you check the city tax records you will find the following. The tax amount

for the current year is $566.00; this is what I owe for property taxes for the

current year.

20. If you inquire about what I paid to the city you will discover that I paid

$1,600.00 in 2005, I paid $1,511.76 in 2004, I paid about $1,600.00 in 2003.

21. Going by these city tax records I paid 3 times what the property is worth

because my home was accessed at 3 times the value, my tax evaluation came

down after I recorded the tax assessor and told him about it.

22. Your next question is going to be why didn’t you complain? Why did you

pay this amount? The answer is The city threatened me, I did complain to the

previous previous tax assessor ,do you know what he told me?

23.“If your house is as bad as you say it is, then we will condemn your house

and kick you out”

24. I swear to god it is true and I would say it under oath and penalty of perjury.

25. If you had seen my house and the condition that it is in you would keep

your mouth shut and say nothing, because to do otherwise would land you

and your family in the street, that’s why.

26. The city has an enormous amount of power and they can and would have

done it, so under threat I said nothing.

27. However when the city under the direction of Jeff Kobrock denied me

money to fix my home that the Government gave them for the purpose, they

made rules after the fact, the only person that this rule affected is me.

28.They said you owe us money, you cannot qualify for this housing program,

I paid the city 3 times what the property is worth, 3 times, check the record.

29. I have had enough, I can’t take it anymore, I may end up losing my home

because I can’t get permits to fix it.

30. It is not only unfair, it is illegal.

31. According to the Governor Baldacci letter MRSA 2607 Neglect of Official

Duty there is a fine for breaking this law for each offence, they did it several

times and the problem is far worst then you think it is.

32. On November 23, 2005 I applied to the city of Gardiner for demolition and

building permits, part of my building is so bad it needs to be torn down

causing health and safety risk and the rest of the building needs 136 feet of

foundations to be replaced, repair of this building is not optional or cosmetic,

it is mandatory, health and safety risk will result if not repaired and me and my

family will have no place to live.

33. If you think I am exaggerating about the condition, Come and look at it

yourself and you tell me.

34. Jeff Kobrock and the city know about the condition of the property, first

hand, it has been documented and Kobrock admitted it in a letter he wrote to

me.

35. So what do you think the response of Kobrock is?

36. He sends over to my house Waldo Gilpatrick, his temporary code

enforcement officer with a copy of his memoranda dated June 10, 2004

37. Waldo says “I am just a messenger, I have nothing to do with any of this,

Kobrock sent me over to give this to you in response to your permit

application and then he left.

38. No concern of any kind about health and safety issues, Kobrock knows full

well the condition of our building, there’s no question about that, it is

documented. Without question Kobrock has violated MRSA 2607 several

times, knowingly and intentionally.

39. In addition to this, this Kobrock has no regard for the laws of Maine, has no

regard for the laws of Gardiner or the health and safety either. This is where I

have a problem with this man.

40. He doesn’t care what the law says, it doesn’t apply to him.

41. I sent certified mail, return receipt on January 2, 2006 to the Mayor Rines

and all the council members and Kobrock and the code enforcer reapplying

and informing them that they are in violation of their own city ordnance that

requires processing within 14 days and neglecting their official duty for failing

to process my permit applications and the fact that they have no ordnance to

deny permits based on tax issues.

42. Do you know what the response is? Nothing.

43. They refuse to reply , then the Mayor says he has an ordnance, however

when asked to produce this ordnance, they refuse and they refuse to process

my permit applications.

44. There’s more.

45. While looking at the Gardiner Maine website I discover that the city enacted

an ordnance 58 days after the fact as I applied on November ,23 2005.

therefore proving that they had no legal right or ordnance in the first place

and in fact violated their own duties and responsibilities of their office

which happens to be illegal according to MRSA 2607.

46. The city of Gardiner ordnance as written does not make any provision for

health and safety.

47. I think it is illegal also.

48. The laws in Gardiner only apply to some people and if you complain about

their wrongdoing they will make laws against you and use their police to

enforce their illegal law.

49. My house is falling down around me.

50. I may lose my home because I do not have a permit to fix it. I have kept

silent for a long time , the city of Gardiner is corrupt when the Mayor and city

council respond to illegal actions by making laws to protect their own illegal

actions.

51. I can’t complain to the city of Gardiner and I can’t complain to the

police, so I am asking you on advise from Governor Baldacci to look into this

problem

Sincerely,

Peter Wlodylo

P.S. Attached is the Governor Baldacci letter