The Four Billion Dollar Government Financial Scam You Might Not Have Heard Of

Miguel Angel Torres , a Spanish Government Urban Planning Authority Collects 2.4 Billion Euros in Bribes to Build Personal Empire!

The Spanish Riviera was red hot for real estate development with nearly a million building permits authorized . Miguel Angel Torres of Mirabella , Spain created an empire as a public land use planning authority of over 2.4 billion euro which was nearly 4 billion US Dollars. You can google his name to get more details and follow the ongoing scandal. Mirabella is the town in Spain where the Kind of Saudi Arabia built his Spanish summer home. Miguel Angel Torres was living way found living way beyond his means on a 150,000 euro annual civil servants salary with net assets of over 2.4 billion euros. He had private a private plane, a helicopter, guard tigers, a big estate home, Fancy art work and everything a public planning authority should have. Why do kids dream about a magic world where Harry Potter lives when they can just go into public service and become a land use planner?

Some people always wondered if something like that might not be happening in Oregon and Portland with the very tight development land use planning laws and those famous instances where businesses can be charged more than $40,000 just to move a pizza restaurant across the street on Se Belmont in Portland? Portland also selectively changes the urban growth boundry to allow the good people to develop more tract homes on the fringe. How much does it really cost them?