The Worst People in the World: Banksters

Not really all that surprising that the very same sort of people who should really be in jail for helping bring about the 2008 global financial collapse are still out there, destroying peoples' lives by stealing their properties from them.

On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb. 

Movers carted out his easy chair, his clothes, his television. Next came the things that were closest to his heart: his Marine Corps medals and photographs of his dead wife, Martha. The duplex in Northeast 

Washington that Coleman bought with cash two decades earlier was emptied and shuttered. By sundown, he had nowhere to go. 

All because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill. 

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One 65-year-old flower shop owner lost his Northwest Washington home of 40 years after a company from Florida paid his back taxes — $1,025 — and then took the house through foreclosure while he was in hospice, dying of cancer. A 95-year-old church choir leader lost her family home to a Maryland investor over a tax debt of $44.79 while she was struggling with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home.

All perfectly legal, of course.