Congressman Adam Schiff is hosting a forum on Identity Theft on Monday August 4, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Witherbee Auditorium in Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, 5333 Zoo Drive.

Representatives from the IRS, FBI, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security, and US Postal Inspection Service will be on hand to share information and discuss concrete ways to protect your identity. Limited seating.  

Please RSVP to:

CongressmanSchiff.RSVP@mail.house.gov

Or call 323-315-5555 or 818-450-2900 

Press Release 

July 21, 2014

OPPONENTS RELEASE DRAMATIC DRONE-VIDEO OF MILLENNIUM PROJECT:
Shows Developer's Secretive Work on Controversial Site

Opponents of the controversial Millennium Hollywood mega-project today released video footage that lifts the cloak of secrecy surrounding a deep exploratory trench the Millennium developer is digging on its property to determine if the site of its proposed $650m twin-skyscraper project is, in fact, crossed by an earthquake fault -- as many scientists believe.

This dramatic video was shot from a small drone and graphically shows the trenching work. Digging deep trenches is one way of obtaining geological evidence about the presence of an earthquake fault.

"We are understandably suspicious about the credibility of the developer's earthquake exploratory work," said Fran Reichenbach, a leader of StopTheMillenniumHollywood.org, a city-wide coalition of community groups opposed to the project. "We know from past conduct that the Millennium team did everything in its power to suppress evidence of an earthquake fault on this property and was assisted in that cover-up by city officials."

"Our question now is this: is the Millennium's current trenching work an objective and sincere effort to determine if there is an earthquake fault on its property or is it cleverly designed not to find evidence of a fault?" the StopTheMillennium leader said.

StopTheMillennium has filed a lawsuit alleging the project's earthquake and traffic analyses were badly flawed, and that the city should rescind its approval of the project.

The drone video, shot with a wide-angle lens, is the public's first look at the secretive exploratory trenching being performed on the Millennium site. The developer has tried to keep prying eyes from observing the trenching work by hiding it behind a wall of drapery hanging from high fences around the site.

The California Geological Survey in January released copies of its mapping of the 7.0 magnitude Hollywood Fault that showed the two Millennium skyscrapers would be built directly on top of the fault. It is illegal to build any habitable structure on top of an active fault, and a developer can only build up to 50 feet away from such a fault after further seismic studies have determined the safety of such construction.

"No doubt the Millennium goes into this trenching work with its fingers crossed that it won't confirm what the CGS maps clearly showed -- that the Hollywood Fault cuts right through this property," said Reichenbach.

"We also don't know what the Millennium gains by all the secrecy surrounding its trenching activity," said Reichenbach.

"We urge the developer to give StopTheMillennium's own seismic experts an opportunity to monitor this trenching work to ensure that it meets the highest scientific standards," Reichenbach said. Where the trenching is done, how deep it goes and the analysis of soil samples derived from the trenching are all key to ensuring this exploratory work is credible, she said.

Workers on the Millennium site who saw the drone over-flight immediately confronted her and phoned in a complaint to the LAPD that her activity was somehow illegal, Reichenbach said. One of the workers, in a white hardhat, can be seen crossing Yucca Street (starting at three minutes and 11 seconds into the video) just before he and two other Millennium workers confronted Reichenbach.

"We never got any callback from the LAPD. The Millennium workers were trying to intimidate us, and I told them we were concerned neighbors," said Reichenbach. "I would point out that the drone obtained video that any TV news helicopter crew could shoot, and that the drone was operated by a skilled drone-pilot."

Contact:

John Schwada at MediaFix Associates
John.schwada@gmail.com
310 709-0056 

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