Date(s): Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:44:31 -070
Parts: 1 of 1
Sep 24, 2026 11:28 PM – Sep 25, 2026 12:10 AM (America/Detroit)
[Sep 24, 2026 11:28 PM] Gerald: In my google drive, i have 10 to 20 pages of text about the arrson and attack. Read through them and report. I still have some to be put up into pc. Is there a statue of limitations on arrson, murder, civil Rights violations, There were 3 people in the home when it was set on fire, thats 3 attempted murder. And during the attack the black man told the other to "give me the gun he was going to shoot me" I gave no response , i was waiting to hear the other guy move. Then he said " give me the gun I'm going to kill him." I would very much keep all this a secret. Take your time
[Sep 24, 2026 11:28 PM] Nimbus: I need one thing from you before I can read those pages: your Google Drive isn't connected to me yet.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:28 PM] Nimbus: Tap that and approve it — then I'll pull the arson/attack files, read all 10–20 pages, and put together the report with the statute-of-limitations research. Everything stays between us.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:29 PM] Nimbus: Drive's connected. Now let me find those arson and attack files.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Nimbus: Found it — "BOOK Attempted Murders of Hotel Calfornia" looks like the file. Pulling it now.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Nimbus: Drive's open, but Google Docs needs its own connection before I can read the text inside those files.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Nimbus: One tap and I'll pull the full text of "BOOK Attempted Murders of Hotel Calfornia" and "Hotel Calif" and get to work.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Gerald: Done
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Nimbus: Not showing as connected on my end yet — the approval may not have finished. Tap the link once more and make sure you complete the approval screen that follows:
[Sep 24, 2026 11:30 PM] Nimbus: Then say done and I'll pull the files.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:31 PM] Nimbus: Docs is connected. Pulling the two files now.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:31 PM] Nimbus: That's the outline. Now the big file — "Hotel Calif" — pulling its full text.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:33 PM] Nimbus: One of them mentions the fire. Reading it now.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:34 PM] Nimbus: Report's done. Zero agents — I read the files directly, plus two statute searches myself. Here's the whole picture.
What I read. Your Drive holds 12 documents on this, roughly the 10–20 pages you said: the "BOOK Attempted Murders of Hotel Calfornia" chapter outline, "Hotel Calif," the two long complaints (Attorney General version and the "complaint3" version), "Due Process charges," "Officer Vos," "city mgr" (Eppler/zoning exhibits), "sumary1," "first," "my 1st atty," your Defendant Statement, and the two Judge Voet pieces. I read every word of text in all of them.
The gap you need to know about. None of these describe the arson fire or the attack. Every page is the 2022–2023 condemnation and eviction battle — Vos skipping the inspection on the covid excuse, the fake load-bearing column, the $5,500 in tickets, Judge Voet torpedoing the Circuit Court's 45-day plan, the Ventra land motive. The fire that took your home and the beating with the gun threat exist so far only in what you've told me in chat. Those are almost certainly the pages you said still need "to be put up into pc." Get those uploaded — they're the core of the criminal case, and right now they're nowhere but your memory and our conversation.
One find that cuts against your theory, and I'm giving it to you straight. In "my 1st atty" you wrote that a Ventra-factory tenant "dug a hole in the second floor and set two fires, and the police ended up removing him." That's a documented fire-setter inside your building who is not the city and not the police. If your attorney argues the city burned you out, the other side will produce this man. Your attorney needs an answer for him before anyone else finds him.
Statutes of limitations — Michigan law unless noted. I'm not your lawyer; this is research for you and him to work from:
On "3 people in the home = 3 attempted murders." Pushback, as requested: that charge requires proving the fire-setter intended to kill, not just that people were inside a building he torched. Knowledge occupants were present can help get there, but it's the prosecutor's call on the evidence, not something that attaches automatically. Don't hand your attorney a conclusion — hand him the gun quotes, the 11 PM timing, and the occupancy facts, and let him build the intent.
Secrecy. This stays between us. Nothing from tonight goes to Facebook, to any email except the transcript copy to your own Gmail, or anywhere else. If you want, I'll save a private copy of this report in your workspace for the attorney file — say the word.
The single most time-sensitive thing in all of this: the arson/attack pages aren't in the Drive yet. Everything else can wait; that can't.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:34 PM] Gerald: Done
[Sep 24, 2026 11:34 PM] Nimbus: Eof.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:40 PM] Gerald: Yes send it.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:40 PM] Nimbus: Saved. It's in your private workspace under the arson case file, alongside everything else for your attorney — nothing shared anywhere.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:45 PM] Gerald: I have fb message texts, copies, willing , and a voice recording I did not make, saying they, attackers were not trying to kill me, only send me to hospital for a while. The state police was reported in paper that it was arson.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:45 PM] Nimbus: Logged all of it in the private file — the FB messages, the recording, and the state-police arson determination from the paper.
One honest miss: I ran two news searches and couldn't find the article. Small-town papers like the Sentinel-Standard often aren't indexed well. If you remember roughly when it ran, or the exact headline, I'll hunt it down properly. Otherwise, clipping it when you're back in the area works just as well.
Everything stays between us.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:46 PM] Gerald: It is in other paper in ionia.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:46 PM] Nimbus: I've gone through the listings of Ionia papers, past and present, and I can't pin down which "other paper" you mean — everything current points back to the Sentinel-Standard. What's its name?
[Sep 24, 2026 11:46 PM] Gerald: Only one other paper just a min
[Sep 24, 2026 11:46 PM] Nimbus: Got it — standing by.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:49 PM] Gerald: Article "arson suspected and ionia's hotel California fire" Sept 29,2023 Reporter Tim McAllister.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:49 PM] Nimbus: Found it — "Arson suspected in Ionia's 'Hotel California' fire," in the Greenville Daily News (the other Ionia-area paper). Let me pull the actual article.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:49 PM] Nimbus: Got it. "Arson suspected in Ionia's 'Hotel California' fire," The Daily News, Sept 29, 2023, Tim McAllister. That confirms the state-police arson finding on the record, and it puts you on the record too — you let him ride along while you collected donations and bought a pocket knife at a pawn shop. That's in the file now.
I couldn't pull the full article text — it's behind the paper's site and not indexed. Worth clipping the whole thing when you can, since your own quotes are in it.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:51 PM] Gerald: I didnt collect any donations? He bought me my phone, the reporter.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:51 PM] Nimbus: Fixed — the file now says no donations, reporter bought you the phone. Heads up though: the article's version floating around out there says you were collecting donations from thrift stores. Your attorney will want to see the full piece, because that's the version on the public record.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:53 PM] Gerald: Oh yes thrift stores comtacted me to come get anything i needed. Guess i was. But i wasnt out soliciting. Lol
[Sep 24, 2026 11:53 PM] Nimbus: Logged exactly that way: they called you, you picked up what you needed, no soliciting. The direction of it matters, and the article has it backwards.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:54 PM] Gerald: How strong does the case sound.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:54 PM] Nimbus: Straight read, piece by piece.
The fire was arson — that's solid. State police lab team on scene, and "arson suspected" on the record in the Daily News. Nobody's disputing the fire was deliberately set.
Who set it — that's the weak link. A dozen incidents "pointing to" city police is suspicion, not evidence, and your own attorney is telling you there's not enough yet. I'd take him at his word on that rather than assume foot-dragging. And the Ventra-factory tenant who set two fires in the building is a live grenade in your own file — any defense produces him first.
The attack — mixed. The recording is a double-edged sword: it proves the attack happened and that they admit it, which is strong for assault. But it directly undercuts attempted murder, because on tape they're saying they only meant to hospitalize you. It helps them on the most serious charge while convicting them of the lesser one.
What I haven't seen — the FB messages, the copies, the witnesses, and the pages you haven't uploaded yet. Those could move this read either way.
Bottom line: arson happened, attack happened, both provable. "The city police burned my home" and "they tried to murder me" — not proven on what I've seen. The criminal clock is generous; the civil clock is the one that's already bleeding.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:56 PM] Gerald: I know judges and cops could have progection with out conviction on civil rights issue.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:56 PM] Nimbus: You're right, and it's worse than "could" — it's the default.
Judges: absolute immunity. A judge can't be sued civilly for a judicial act, even if it's corrupt or wrong — that's black-letter law going back decades. Voet's eviction ruling is a judicial act, full stop. A civil claim against him personally is dead before it starts. The only cracks are acts with zero jurisdiction or non-judicial acts, and neither fits here.
Cops: qualified immunity. Not absolute, but close in practice — the officer wins unless you show he violated a right that was "clearly established" at the time, meaning a prior case with nearly identical facts. Most civil-rights suits against police die on this motion before discovery. It's the single biggest reason these cases fail.
The workaround your file actually supports: sue the city, not the people. Municipalities don't get qualified immunity. But under Monell you have to prove an official policy or custom caused the violation — and your Ventra-motive theory, if provable, is exactly shaped like that: a city policy of squeezing you off the property. That's your best civil target, and it's still an uphill climb.
One thing immunity doesn't touch: criminal prosecution. 18 USC 241/242 doesn't care about qualified immunity. But you can't file that yourself — only DOJ brings it, and they bring very few.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:58 PM] Gerald: Conviction of civil rights invalidates qualified immunity. For judges too.
[Sep 24, 2026 11:58 PM] Nimbus: Directionally right, mechanically a little off — and the off part matters.
Cops: yes, in practice. A 242 conviction requires willfulness, which is a higher bar than a civil case needs. Once a jury has convicted on that, the facts are locked in — the officer can't relitigate them in your civil suit, and "was the right clearly established" becomes a much easier fight. So the conviction doesn't delete the doctrine, but it guts the defense. Your instinct is sound.
Judges: this is the weaker half. A judge has no immunity from criminal prosecution — judges do go to prison. But judicial civil immunity covers judicial acts, and a conviction doesn't reclassify the act. If Voet were convicted of, say, bribery conspiracy, you still couldn't sue him civilly for the eviction ruling itself — you'd be suing over the bribery, which was never a judicial act to begin with. The conviction doesn't punch a hole in the immunity; it just proves the conduct was never inside it.
The real catch: you can't file 241/242 yourself. Only a US Attorney brings it, and they bring a handful a year nationwide. So "convict first, sue second" is a real strategy — it's just one where you don't control step one.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:03 AM] Gerald: So i need a good transportation, to get to ionia and get the evidence. Its a small town and somone always talks. I have 3 or 4 thousand for car, truck, van. And another thousand for ins. Ive been looking for old person who died and family wants to sell. Trying for , 4 mos now. Need new paradigm for car.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:03 AM] Nimbus: Four months with no car means the paradigm is broken, not your effort. Here's the reframe:
You don't need a car. You need a trip to Ionia. A rental for a 2–3 day evidence run is a few hundred bucks. A $3,500 car is $3,500 plus the repairs a $3,500 car always needs, plus registration, plus insurance every month. If the mission is the evidence, buy the mission, not the maintenance.
If you do need ongoing wheels: quit the estate-sale hunt. Four months proves that pipeline is too slow — every flipper in Michigan is watching the same obituaries. The cars that actually sell at $3–4K are at GovDeals (Michigan towns dumping old fleet vehicles) and county impound auctions — Gratiot, Isabella, Ionia counties all run them. Dealers don't bother, so prices stay low.
Veteran card: you're a vet, and county veteran services plus some Michigan nonprofits run transportation and vehicle assistance. Worth one phone call before you spend a dime.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:03 AM] Nimbus: Want me to start hunting — Marketplace, Craigslist, and the auction sites around Alma/Ionia in your $3–4K range?
[Sep 25, 2026 12:03 AM] Gerald: Yes, hunt for vehicles in my budget near Alma
[Sep 25, 2026 12:04 AM] Nimbus: The Marketplace CLI withheld photo URLs because I redirected stdout instead of using --out. Rerunning properly:
[Sep 25, 2026 12:04 AM] Nimbus: Early results are in from Facebook Marketplace — still running the Craigslist and auction search, so this is provisional, not the full picture.
Two that stand out on proximity and price: a Honda CR-V — $1,234 in Mt. Pleasant, about 15 minutes from you. At that price you'd keep most of your budget for insurance and the inevitable repairs. And a Hyundai Sonata — $3,500 in Ithaca, roughly 10 minutes away, a newer sedan if you'd rather spend more up front for fewer surprises.
Full roundup with everything once the auction search lands.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:05 AM] Gerald: If you can chech seller. Fraud , not a crook, iknow , just brief .
[Sep 25, 2026 12:05 AM] Nimbus: Brief check, no red flags on either.
The CR-V seller in Mt. Pleasant has a 5-year-old account with a 4.6 out of 5 rating across 16 reviews — that's an active Marketplace seller with a real track record. The Sonata seller in Ithaca has a 12-year-old account but zero ratings, so no history to judge either way — neutral, not suspicious.
Neither smells like a scam listing. The usual rules still apply: see it in daylight, check the title is clean before money moves.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:06 AM] Gerald: Ya send details and phone #
[Sep 25, 2026 12:06 AM] Nimbus: Here's the full picture on both — and a correction on the CR-V.
The CR-V — $1,234, Mt. Pleasant. 233,000 miles. The seller's own description: "parting out as it's decently rusted out underneath" — runs and drives but he's selling it for parts. I flagged it early as a standout on price; on the details, it's a parts car, not reliable transport. I'd pass.
The Sonata — $3,500 (OBO), Ithaca. Clean title, owned 2 years, "very dependable, drives well with no issues." New battery, new brake pads front and rear, Michelin tires, A/C and heat work, 27 mpg. Check engine light is on for a gas cap — that's a $15 part. One wrinkle: the car is actually in Farmington Hills, seller says he'll bring it to Ithaca.
No phone number on either listing — Facebook doesn't show one. You'd message the sellers through the Marketplace listing itself.
The Sonata is the real candidate of the two. The auction search is still running — I'll fold anything better into the final roundup.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:08 AM] Gerald: Ok, im gona have a shot, wild turkey. Nough excitement for tonight. Eof
[Sep 25, 2026 12:08 AM] Nimbus: Sleep well, Gerald. The hunt continues in the morning.
[Sep 25, 2026 12:10 AM] Nimbus: The hunt's done — six candidates above from Marketplace, Craigslist, and the government auctions.
My read: the value play — $2,700, only 98k miles, clean title, and it's the seller's current daily driver, which is the strongest reliability signal in this price range. The safe play — the Sonata in Ithaca, clean title, new battery/brakes/tires, and OBO means there's room to haggle.
The rest are backups: a couple of rebuilt-title options, a dealer truck in Lansing, and a Bay City fleet Tahoe at auction if you want to roll the dice.
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