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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:00:14 PM EDT
New Jersey govt drains gym’s bank account over Covid-19 rule-breaking, despite ongoing legal appeal
 The owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey had their bank account unexpectedly drained even while pursuing their legal appeals against a growing stack of fines levied by the state for alleged violation of Covid-19 rules. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy “took it upon himself to empty our bank account entirely, to the tune of $165,000,” gym owner Ian Smith claimed in a Wednesday Instagram post. The confiscation took place “without warning, and without permission” despite both parties being eight months into a bitter legal battle over state Covid-19 restrictions – including a lawsuit against the governor, he added. The gym owner accused the governor “and his cronies” of “effectively and intentionally interfering with our right to council [sic]” in a Twitter post, noting that the sum taken represented “100% of [the gym’s] legal defense money.” In addition to several charges filed against Atilis Gym in July, when its owners were arrested for defying a court order to shut down their business, the gym has been hit with additional fines of $15,497.76 since November for every day it remains open to its members without enforcing a mask mandate. However, the owners have appealed all financial judgments against their establishment. Smith pointed out that he has challenged not only the daily fines, but some “eighty municipal and criminal charges against us; ongoing litigation in the case of the revocation of our business license without due process; and the unconstitutional health department shut-down that was placed upon us in the first place.” When Murphy ordered the state’s gyms to close back in March, Smith and his business partner Frank Trumbetti took their case to court, arguing they should be permitted to stay open as long as they maintained strict sanitary and social distancing protocols. The pair sued both Murphy and state health commissioner Judith Persichilli, vowing that “no governor, or no government official, will ever wield [such excessive] powers ever again.” Continued |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:02:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Some pretend we aren't turning into a fascist police state. We aren't there yet, but it's rapidly advancing.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:02:02 PM EDT
[#2]
Pick up that can.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:04:22 PM EDT
[#3]
That is the only way he can fight this.
Good Luck !!! |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:05:24 PM EDT
[#4]
I guarantee if he wins in court it won’t be returned nearly as quickly. If ever.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:07:36 PM EDT
[#5]
Does he have a gfm account? We need to support people with the balls to tell the government enough with your bulletin.
We keep saying someone needs to stand up, well someone is, and we should support him. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:07:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:10:26 PM EDT
[#7]
So now he can add unlawful seizer to the list of suits.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:12:36 PM EDT
[#8]
Damn he probly wishes his money was in bitcoin now..
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:14:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does he have a gfm account? We need to support people with the balls to tell the government enough with your bulletin. We keep saying someone needs to stand up, well someone is, and we should support him. They'll just seize that too. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:15:26 PM EDT
[#10]
He knew the state was out to get him and he still kept a giant pile of cash in a bank?
That's when you're supposed to stuff it in the Cash Mattress and only deposit what you need to pay bills. 
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:16:30 PM EDT
[#11]
Wasn't Murphy one of the ones caught not following his own protocols?
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:38:11 PM EDT
[#12]
That has to be highly illegal. Unless they snuck some property seizure law in because covid or state emergency declaration.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:39:38 PM EDT
[#13]
We are living in a lawless society.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:40:20 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That has to be highly illegal. Unless they snuck some property seizure law in because covid or state emergency declaration. Govt is out of control. And it will get worse. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:55:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They'll just seize that too. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Does he have a gfm account? We need to support people with the balls to tell the government enough with your bulletin. We keep saying someone needs to stand up, well someone is, and we should support him. They'll just seize that too. He has (had) one and that’s exactly what they did. The .gov’s justification for the amount of the daily fines was “they have enough to cover it in their go fund me account.” |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:55:29 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That has to be highly illegal. Unless they snuck some property seizure law in because covid or state emergency declaration. Since when did that stop any government? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:56:57 PM EDT
[#17]
Constitutional crisis.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:57:46 PM EDT
[#18]
Serious question:
How do law enforcement and State National Guard personnel workout if their State closes all the gyms? They have to buy their own workout equipment or do body weight exercises I guess, but what are the chances that as a consequence of these State wide lockdowns that we'll have less physically fit law enforcement and National Guard personnel? If State National Guard can't use a gym anywhere in their local area isn't that harmful to national defense? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 5:59:56 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Since when did that stop any government? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That has to be highly illegal. Unless they snuck some property seizure law in because covid or state emergency declaration. Since when did that stop any government? Sieze everything, figure out if you’re actually guilty of anything later. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:19:05 PM EDT
[#20]
An appeal doesn't usually prohibit executing on the judgment or fines unless there's a court order staying enforcement, which usually requires a bond that's basically the cost of the judgment or fines
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:26:31 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: An appeal doesn't usually prohibit executing on the judgment or fines unless there's a court order staying enforcement, which usually requires a bond that's basically the cost of the judgment or fines So the game is rigged? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:28:17 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Some pretend we aren't turning into a fascist police state. We aren't there yet, but it's rapidly advancing. New Jersey has been there for decades. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:29:03 PM EDT
[#23]
Wait until the FBI orders the seizure of all assets of every person identified as being at the DC rally and protest.
It is coming. ETA: Am I reading that correctly that he has been fined $15k a day, every day since July? So he technically owes the state of NJ almost $3,000,000 in fines? I think I would start looking at used heavy equipment and current prices on steel plate. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:31:17 PM EDT
[#24]
Zero fucks given if this guy goes full Killdozer.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:32:26 PM EDT
[#25]
I don’t think I can stay within the CoC and honestly say what I’d do if someone stole my life’s work.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:35:15 PM EDT
[#26]
Fucking disgusting
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:38:52 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Zero fucks given if this guy goes full Killdozer. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:30:00 PM EDT
[#28]
Meanwhile you can go to any big box store and be surrounded by tons of people.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:30:08 PM EDT
[#29]
Beware of the man with nothing left to lose.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:38:57 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: An appeal doesn't usually prohibit executing on the judgment or fines unless there's a court order staying enforcement, which usually requires a bond that's basically the cost of the judgment or fines Can file a Writ of Mandamus, no? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:49:02 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Some pretend we aren't turning into a fascist police state. We aren't there yet, but it's rapidly advancing. No we're clearly there. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:54:10 PM EDT
[#32]
We should start a gofundme, oh wait, forgot, they are not violent felons, so they will take down the page.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:14:18 PM EDT
[#33]
Needs more killdozer.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:21:02 PM EDT
[#34]
Does he have enough left to rent a bulldozer?
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:23:49 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Does he have a gfm account? We need to support people with the balls to tell the government enough with your bulletin. We keep saying someone needs to stand up, well someone is, and we should support him. he does. listed on his instagram page. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:30:00 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Wait until the FBI orders the seizure of all assets of every person identified as being at the DC rally and protest. It is coming. ETA: Am I reading that correctly that he has been fined $15k a day, every day since July? So he technically owes the state of NJ almost $3,000,000 in the fines? I think I would start looking at used heavy equipment and current prices on steel plate. I’ll loan him my welder. Hell I’ll go to Jersey and help him. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:34:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:40:53 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Some pretend we aren't turning into a fascist police state. We aren't there yet, but it's rapidly advancing. Meh. We're already there. 2020 and 2021 have proven it. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:43:05 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote Historyexactly, CoC applies |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:38:53 PM EDT
[#40]
How very Soviet minded.....
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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:45:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat guy has nothing to lose, they took it all away. $1M in fines? 
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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:48:35 PM EDT
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This guy is my hero
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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:50:35 PM EDT
[#43]
We got what it takes to take what you got
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:23:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Zero fucks given if this guy goes full Killdozer. Well I'll feel bad for him and his friends and family anyways. |
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:27:33 AM EDT
[#45]
I wonder when enough people will get pissed enough to set shit right. I studied history, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how our time compares to 1776.
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:40:53 AM EDT
[#46]
I get a kick out of all the lawsuit and court comments. Im amused some of you still have faith in our courts/justice system.
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:47:31 AM EDT
[#47]
This is what happens when the right has no balls. The left will do what ever they want to and the right will do nothing but write sternly worded letters.
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:52:14 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/16/2021 2:57:13 AM EDT
[#49]
NJ is a Biden state.... Odds are that gym owner voted for him. The gyms here are open and thriving.
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Posted: 1/16/2021 3:08:11 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Does he have a gfm account? We need to support people with the balls to tell the government enough with your bulletin. We keep saying someone needs to stand up, well someone is, and we should support him. Every dime you give him, it will be taken as well. |
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