[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Remibursement for FY13

Fri Nov 1 16:49:34 UTC 2013

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Remibursement for FY13

Dear Ms. Haynes,

Now I'm sending this to RSA (The United States Department of Education Rehabilitive Services Administration) now SSA reimbursements are supposed to be copiously documented as income for BSBP's state plan supplement and it is a gross violation of several laws to "fudge" those figures.

Indeed it is both a violation of the Federal False Statements Act, and the Federal Quai Tam (Falls Claims Act) to do so.

Violations of both these actsare criminal in nature.

So I suggest you Ms. Haynes give up the information unless you wish for criminal charges as an agent of the State of Michigan which engages in False Claims against the federal taxpayer's trough to continue and for you, Ms. Haynes to be named as a party to this fraud upon the citizens of this state including me.

The choice is yours, of course. /But, respectfully I suggest you make the correct choice for your sake as you will be sued severally and liably for your roll in this ongoing fiasco.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) 
  Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 10:43 AM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Remibursement for FY13

  November 1, 2013

  Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  Re:  FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Reimbursements for FY13

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

  This email is in response to your October 24, 2013, email request for information, received by this office on October 25, 2013.  Please be advised that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

  You have requested information as described in your email (also included below) as:

  "I am writing you all today to request just how much BSBP was reimbursed last FY by SSA for successful closures."

  In order to determine the extent of the research time, the size and number of records of nonexempt information within BSBP responsive to your request, a search must be undertaken.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by Section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, through November 15, 2013, for your request.

  If it is determined that there is a cost involved in the processing of this request, you will be sent an email which will include an invoice outlining that cost (before or no later than November 15, 2013).  This email may 

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  November 1, 2013

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  either request a deposit (if the cost is over $50.00) or request payment of the total cost if the amount is under $50.00.

  Please note that nothing within the federal American with Disabilities Act (ADA ), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA), as amended, or the state's FOIA (MCL 15.231 et seq.) requires a public body to process FOIA requests free of charge.  Further, while the ADA and Section 504 of the RA may mandate that, upon request, material be produced in an accessible format without charge, neither the ADA or Section 504 of the RA preclude a public body from charging costs under the state's FOIA. Thusly, please note that no labor fee charges have been, or will be, assessed to convert existing, nonexempt public records responsive to your requests into an accessible format to forward to you.

  Sincerely,

  Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

  Bureau of Services for Blind Persons

  Attachment:  Email Request for Information

  cc:     Edward F. Rodgers II

            Sue Luzenski

            Mike Pemble

  Katie Belknap

            Elsie Duell

            Leamon Jones

  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]  

  Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:52 PM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: Zimmer, Mike (LARA); BSBPcommissioners; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; 

  BRIAN SABOURIN; Elmer Cerano (E-mail); MARK MCWILLIAMS; Marlene Malloy 

  Subject: ssa reimbursement and state plan info

  October 24 2013 to Rodgers SSA Reimbursement and State Plan Info

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  joeharcz at comcast.net

  810-516-5262

  To: Edward Rodgers, BSBP

  S. Michael Zimmer, LARA DSA

  (Via E-mail)

  Sirs,

  I am writing you all today to request just how much BSBP was reimbursed last FY by SSA for successful closures. Now, as you might know data like this is required to be in public reports which you've both denied me in public including an accessible copy of the State Plan Supplement.

  So give it up, without charge and in accessible format and/or post this information to the BSBP web site as Mr. Rodgers said was done in public but, in fact is not done to date.

  Failure to remit this information in a timely and accessible manner and/or abusing the FOIA as you've done in the past is actionable and will be further evidence of your chronic, pervasive and malicious violations in documented fashion of my and, indeed all blind persons civil rights.

  Sincerely,

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  Cc: BSBP

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: MPAS

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: several media, legislators, and attorneys at law

  810-516-5262

  Carla Miller Haynes

  LARA Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP)

  201 N. Washington Square, 2nd Floor

  P.O. Box 30652

  Lansing, MI  48909

  Telephone:  517-373-2063 or Toll-Free 1-800-292-4200

  Fax:  517-335-5140

  www.michigan.gov/bsbp