Milwaukee Neighborhood Services Oversight Of City's Housing Authority Resolution Approved By Common Council

The City of Milwaukee Common Council anonymously approved a resolution for the City's Neighborhood Services to have the oversight to inspect all Housing Authority buildings and developments for any repeated City code building violations.

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 11, 2023

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Common Council anonymously approved a City ordinance for the Department of Neighborhood Services (DNS) to have authority to inspect all of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) buildings and development for any City code violations and to charge fees and fine HACM for repeated violations and inspections. The DNS under the approved ordinance will allow for the Common Council to get annual reports by the DNS inspection results.

The DNS will also evaluate how many additional building inspectors it will need in the oversight of HACM.

Willie Hines, the Executive Director and Secretary of HACM who earns $240,000 in annual salary supported the oversight ordinance.

HACM tenants from multiple Milwaukee Southside HACM developments raised concerns and sought the support of Common Ground, a non-profit organization to help organize tenants after HACM had ignored tenants complaints of apartments havibg infestation of bed bugs, rodents and severe inside deterioration of apartments that weren't being repaired by HACM.

HACM tenants also alleged that HACM was negligent to do timely repairs on work orders and in many occasions failed to do any repairs.

Currently, HACM doesn't have a system to report all the major repairs needed to be done for each property or for tenants to followup on their complaints.

Several HUD audits found millions of dollars were mismanaged including thousands of dollars spent on HACM credit cards by managers of multiple developments unaccounted and lacked any record keeping of the expenditures, according to HUD audits.

At the end of last year, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Hines received a 47-page report (audit) indicating that HACM allegedly was "at risk of serious fraud, waste and abuse," according to the HUD report. (47-page report by HUD at link: https://tinyurl.com/5czw2pft)

A second HUD report in April found that HACM's bank statements and internal booking records showed more than $3M in discrepancies, HACM staff could not produce receipts for $49,876.16 in expenditures by HACM credit cards. HUD also found that HACM kept poor record keeping that made it difficult for HUD to determine key financial balances for the Section 8 Program.

UISD Board Votes To End Contract With Superintendent David H. González In Laredo

González was fired by the Laredo UISD Board.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 10, 2023

Laredo, Texas - On Tuesday, the United Independent School District (UISD) voted to terminate the contract of UISD Superintendent David H. González, 59, after a sexual harassment complaint was filed against him by an employee. González was placed on administrative leave by the Board in August.

González was named the Superintendent of UISD in July 2021, according to the UISD website.

González was allegedly accused of attempting to coerce Ana Cordova, 51, a current bilingual clerk at UISD to lie after claiming that she was sexually harassed in 2011 by González who was then the principal of Washington Middle School.

In mid August, Priscilla Villarreal Treviño, 37, also known as Lagordiloca released a audio recording dated April 2021 where González confessed what he did and wanted for Cordova to lie about it so, he could save his current job. 

Cordova claimed that due to the sexual harassment in 2011, she suffered panic attacks, very high blood pressure and depression and was hospitalized. Her doctor recommended a change of work or she would suffer a serious illness.

Audio recording between UISD Superintendent González and Cordova courtesy of Lagordiloca News LaredoTx at link: https://youtu.be/huWxxp1-gAE

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Dozens Of Protesters Stage Peaceful Protest At Supermercado El Rey On S. Chávez Drive Seeking "Justice For Pito" In The Southside Of Milwaukee

Dozens of protesters staged a peaceful protest in front of Supermercado El Rey on S. Chávez Drive in the Southside of Milwaukee.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 9, 2023

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - A peaceful protest was held at the Supermercado El Rey located at the 900 block of S. César E. Chávez Drive seeking "Justice for Pito", also known as Luis Lorenzo, 36, who was killed by Enoch Wilson, 45, a Marshall Public Safety security guard (Supervisor) after Pito shot and killed Anthony "Tony" James Nolden, 59, another security guard in self-defense.

On July 9, 2022, Pito went to El Rey on Chávez Drive to eat at the indoor fast food taqueria (taco restaurant) when he was stopped by Nolden who told Pito that no backpacks were allowed inside the store. Pito refused to leave his backpack at the customer service counter and began to leave El Rey. Once outside of El Rey, Pito and Nolden exchanged words and then Pito began to walk away into the parking when Nolden is seen chasing him and spraying Pito multiple times with pepper spray, at that time Wilson arrived and joined Nolden in pepper spraying Pito as well, as both of them tackled Pito to the ground, according to an outdoor surveillance video footage. Pito fearing for his life (he was blinded and was choking from the pepper spray), took out a handgun and fatally shot Nolden in the parking lot, then Wilson fatally shot Pito.

On Sunday afternoon, October 8, 2023, dozens of protesters walked on the sidewalk in front of El Supermercado El Rey chanting "El Rey Cover-up, Justice for Pito, We Won't Stop Until We Get Justice!" Full protest video at link: https://youtu.be/qCnLu286tQo

A wrongful death Milwaukee County civil lawsuit was filed on September 29, 2022 by the Estate of Luis Lorenzo, Special Administrator Wanda Rodriguez v. Marshall Public Safety, LLC and El Rey Holdings, LLC case # 2022CV006215, which is still ongoing seeking justice for Pito.

An appeal is also pending with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in the case challenging the July 21, 2023 decision of Milwaukee County Judge William Sosnay to dismiss all claims against El Rey Enterprises, which indicates that those who contract security guard agencies will not be held accountable for any wrongful death liability lawsuit brought upon by victim's families seeking justice for their love ones that were killed on business private properties. Link: An appeal is also pending with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in the case challenging the July 21, 2023 decision of Milwaukee County Judge William Sosnay to dismiss all claims against El Rey Enterprises, which indicates that those who contract security guard agencies will not be held accountable for any wrongful death liability lawsuit brought upon by victim's families seeking justice for their love ones that were killed on business private properties. WI Court of Appeals case link:  https://tinyurl.com/24zw4ajt

William Sulton, the attorney for the Estate of Luis Lorenzo confirmed on Monday, October 9, 2023 when contacted by HNNUSA that he will file a Milwaukee County civil lawsuit challenging Judge Sosnay's decision in regards to dismissing all claims against El Rey Enterprises. 

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Facebook META Platform Removed News Article About Julie Valadez Being Released From Canadian Immigration Hold Because It Violated Its Community Standards

Facebook unjustly removed the Julie Valadez news article by HNNUSA from the social media platform.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 6, 2023

California - On Friday,  Facebook (FB) META Platform removed Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) news article about Julie Valadez..."Julie Valadez Released From Canadian Immigration Hold After Spending 9-weeks In Detention, Delavan Police Detective Trevor G. Hinman Had Filed False Criminal Charges Against Valadez To Extradite Her To Wisconsin"

HNNUSA news article link: https://tinyurl.com/2p92nswd

FB should be ashamed of removing a news article...FB definitely continues to practice a gross violation of Free Speech on their own corporate social media META platform...Smh.

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Julie Valadez Released From Canadian Immigration Hold After Spending 9-weeks In Detention, Delavan Police Detective Trevor G. Hinman Had Filed False Criminal Charges Against Valadez To Extradite Her To Wisconsin

Valadez was detained for a second time (9-weeks) by Canada Border Services Agency officials shortly after she was released from a 5-week hold on June 1, 2023.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 6, 2023

Vancouver, B.C., Canada - On Thursday, Julie Valadez, 39, was released from Canada Border Services Agency hold after being detained for a second time, she was held for 9-weeks, shortly after being released after a 5-week hold in Canada.

Valadez crossed into Canada in the Summer of 2022 seeking refugee status after experiencing the most corrupt Waukesha County family court illegal decisions by both Judges Michael J. Abrahamian and Ralph M.  Ramirez in Wisconsin that resulted for her four children to be placed with the abusive father, Ricardo Valadez, a former pastor in Waukesha despite winning four Wisconsin Court of Appeals decisions that indicated that her four children were illegally placed with her ex-husband.

Valadez filed a Writ Of Mandamus with the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, but the Writ may have failed to get the four votes required to be taken up by the Supreme Court because it was done in a closed conference and no information is publicly available.

In order words, no one can find out because they held a closed conference for the matter which allegedly violates the Constitutional presumption of public access to court records protected by the first amendment.

The Writ of Mandamus included all the alleged illegal acts committed by Judge Ramirez in the Julie Valadez v. Ricardo Valadez divorce case. Writ-325 page PDF link: http://bit.ly/40PkEWY

Also, Valadez who was declared indigent in Wisconsin was charged with more than $40,000 in divorce court fees and child support charges by Judge Ramirez, eventhough on many occasions, Julie was denied access and unsupervised visits to see her children by Ramirez during the divorce proceedings.

Her 15-year-old son, Ethan Valadez ran away on his own accord in January 2023 because he didn't want to stay with his abusive father and ended up in Canada seeking asylum as a refugee. He was later forcibly removed from Canada by the CBSA.

Ethan was forcibly taken against his will while Julie and Alamea-Xian were placed in detention during the Canadian federal worker strike. He was put in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development against his will and refused his repeated requests for an attorney. While in their care, the Ministry informed him that they would be returning him to his father and that he could not see his mother. He became suicidal and was taken to the hospital on April 24. Despite all of this, they forced him back with his abusive father anyway without any assessment or court hearing to offer him an ability to tell his story and submit his doctor's report to the court recommending that the boy remain with his mother due to his father's post separation abuse and past child abuse. 

Ethan was in the care of the Ministry for a week from 4/21-4/28/2023.

In brief, Ethan was placed in an undisclosed location before he became suicidal and then into a youth group home. He repeatedly refused returning to his father and requested an attorney.

To this day, Ethan now 16, has refused to return to his father and has been in the care of Julie's parents since, his forced return to the U.S..

Julie had sought refugee status in Canada because she fear, that if she continued to stay in Wisconsin, Judge Ramirez would order her to be arrested as a vindictive act for exposing Ramirez of corruption and illegal acts on the bench dealing with her divorce case. The petition of Writ of Mandamus filed with the Wisconsin State Supreme Court details her years of plight in the corrupt Waukesha County family court judicial system.

Julie was criminally charged on February 2. 2023, and Alamea-Xian, 50, was officially charged on March 3, 2023 with two felony charges each for Ethan's flight to Canada seeking asylum and living with his mother, Julie.

Kimberly Cornado, 46, was criminally charged on March 23, 2023 for interfere with child custody of another parent and party to a crime.

Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) learned and confirmed that the Delavan Police Department sent documents including several filed police reports of false (supplement police filings) criminal charges for kidnapped minor for sexual assault filed by Delavan Police Detective Trevor G. Hinman in an attempt to unconstitutionally bypass proper extradition procedure and kidnap Julie and Alamea-Xian to face felony charges in Walworth County for interfering with the custody of another parent and party to a crime.

Det. Hinman remains in the Delavan Police Department and hasn't been fired for filing several false police reports. Link of false Delavan police reports: https://tinyurl.com/5b5x79ws

A federal lawsuit was filed in Hawaii against Detective Hinman alleging he filed several false police reports charging both Julie and Alamea-Xian with kidnapped minor for sexual assault and is currently pending, according to Kathryn Alamea-Xian who is spear heading the federal lawsuit against Hinman and other officials in Wisconsin.

The Delavan Police Department had sought for Alamea-Xian and Julie to be extradited to Wisconsin to face frivolous felony charges for kidnapped minor for sexual assault, which the false felony charges were filed in a police report and sent to the CBSA officials in order to get both Alamea-Xian and Julie extradited, which was unsuccessful when both Alamea-Xian and Julie received copies of the false Delavan Police supplement report filed by Detective Hinman and challenged Hinman's false police supplement report. Both Alamea-Xian and Julie were not officially charged with kidnapped minor for sexual assault that Det. Hinman attempted to falsely indicate.

HNNUSA also learned that Julie Valadez dropped out of a $75,000,000 federal Civil Rights lawsuit filed by Alamea-Xian against Wisconsin Guardian Ad Litem Attorney Molly Jasmer and more than 30 other defendants that included Waukesha and Walworth County judges, assist. D.A.s, law enforcement officers from the City of Delavan and Waukesha, multiple attorneys from Wisconsin, Ricardo Valadez and etc. Lawsuit link: https://tinyurl.com/5bcerm5t

Alamea-Xian confirmed to HNNUSA that she was given 45-days by the federal court to amend the pleading in the federal Civil Rights lawsuit in Hawaii to personally sue the Wisconsin STATE Defendants as it has become clear that the Federal Defendants were misrepresented by Det. Trevor Hinman in his fabricated police reports, according to the federal court review in Hawaii.

See videos regarding the Julie Valadez domestic abuse case in Wisconsin: 

15-year-old runs away from abuser father https://youtu.be/hiCIdQaAIeM

Waukesha Courts Criminalize Motherhood https://youtu.be/d8sCV-9HDec

The Julie Valadez Story https://youtu.be/lVjb_6tFG8A

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Alverno College And Mount Mary University In Milwaukee Retained Federal Hispanic-Serving Institution Designation With More than 25% Of Full Time Latino Student Enrollment, According to The HACU

Recognizing two Wisconsin higher education institutions in Milwaukee as Hispanic-Serving Institutions during Hispanic Heritage Month 2023.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 3, 2023

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Two higher education institutions, Alverno College and Mount Mary University from Milwaukee have retained their designation as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) for multiple years by the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) under the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program (Title V, Part A), which provides federal grants to HSI designated institutions.

On September 21, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration awarded more than $40M to support HSIs around the country.

According to U.S. federal law, a HSI is defined as an institution of higher education that is an eligible institution; and has an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that is at least 25 percent Hispanic students at the end of the award year immediately preceding the date of application, cited from the USDOE website.

Alverno College undergraduate and full-time Hispanic student enrollment was reported at 40% for the Fall of 2022, the USNews dot com reported (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/alverno-college-3832). In 2017, Alverno College became the first college in Wisconsin to obtain its federal HSI designation with 27% of Hispanic student enrollment. Link: https://www.alverno.edu/Program/Alverno-College-First-in-Wisconsin-to-be-Named-Hispanic-Serving-Institution

Also, Mount Mary University-Milwaukee for the Fall 2023 entering undergraduate enrollment was reported at 41% and was designated as a HSI for a second year, according to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) membership report (2021-22). Mount Mary first obtained its HSI designation in 2020 and in 2021 reported its Hispanic undergraduate enrollment at nearly 31%.

In 2021-22, the HACU reported that three Wisconsin Higher Education Institutions were designated as HSIs, Alverno College-Milwaukee with 36.6% Hispanic student enrollment;  Herzing University-Kenosha with 30.0% and Mount Mary University-Milwaukee with 30.4% Hispanic student enrollment. Link: https://www.hacu.net/images/hacu/OPAI/2023_HSILists.pdf

Justice For Luis "Pito" Lorenzo March And Rally Planned For October 8th By El Rey Supermercado On S. Chávez Drive

A Justice for Luis Lorenzo march and rally, aka, Pito is planned for October 8th by El Rey Supermercado on S. Chávez Drive.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

October 2, 2023

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - A Justice for Pito, actual name Luis Lorenzo, 36, rally will place on Sunday, October 8, 2023 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. by El Rey Supermercado, 900 S. César E. Chávez Drive in the Southside of Milwaukee.

Lorenzo was attacked by several security guards from Marshal Public Safety who were contracted (date unknown) for store security by Ernesto Villarreal, the President and CEOof El Rey Supermercado (El Rey Holdings, LLC), according to a deposition dated February 15, 2023 taken for the lawsuit case filed under the Estate of Luis Lorenzo v. Marshals Public Safety, LLC, El Rey Holdings, LLC and their Insurance companies. The lawsuit is ongoing, according to Milwaukee County court records.

On September 23, 2023, Milwaukee County Judge William Sosnay dismissed all claims against El Rey Enterprises, but two appeals by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals were granted for depositions of defendants to be filed.

According to the Milwaukee County civil lawsuit, Lorenzo went to El Rey Supermarket on July 9, 2022 to purchase some items and was confronted by Marshal Public Safety Officer Anthony "Tony" James Nolden, 59, which attempt to keep Lorenzo from entering the store with a backpack in his shoulder. The Estate of Lorenzo lawsuit says that Nolden pepper sprayed Lorenzo as he attempted to leave the store. Then as Lorenzo exited, Enoch Wilson, 45, the director of the Marshal Public Safety company who arrived at the scene including Nolden took down Lorenzo in the parking lot after Nolden and Wilson pepper sprayed Lorenzo for a second time. While Lorenzo was on the ground and blinded, as he feared for his life and was defending himself, he took out a handgun and fatally shot Nolden. Then Wilson took out his handgun out and fatally shot Lorenzo.

The lawsuit also claims that Marshal Public Safety (MPS) officers have no police powers under the law to arrest someone.

The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office decided not to criminally charge Wilson with Lorenzo's homicide, nor for Nolden's death.

Both Lorenzo's and Nolden's deaths were ruled homicides by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.

Also, at the time of the deadly confrontation at El Rey Supermarket, both Wilson and Nolden had their firearms licenses expired. Nolden's firearm license expired on March 10, 2022 and Wilson's license to carry a firearm expired on June 28, 2022, according to the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services website.

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