Philadelphia trio chained 4 mentally disabled persons in basement, cashed in their disability payments

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Above are 3 suspects responsible for chaining disabled people in a basement with dogs and buckets of excrement. This was at least the 4th location where the group had resided. The woman above already did jail time for starving a man to death.

10/17/11, "Philadelphia charges as four found chained in basement," BBC

"Three suspects have been charged with chaining four mentally disabled adults in a basement in Philadelphia and collecting their disability benefits.

Police found the victims after investigating reports of squatters.

The room was too short to stand up in, one victim was chained to a boiler, and the only food in the room was a container of orange juice, police said.

One suspect, Linda Ann Weston, previously served eight years in prison for starving a man to death 1981.

Police officially charged Weston, 51, Gregory Thomas, 47, and Eddie Wright, 50 with multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping and aggravated assault.

Authorities are looking into additional federal charges, a spokesman told the The Philadelphia Inquirer....

The adults found in the basement have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds, police said.

They ranged in age from 29 to 41. Once found, they were taken to hospital and listed as being in a stable condition.

Turgut Gozleveli, the owner of the Philadelphia building, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he checked out the basement after neighbours complained of suspicious people.

When he failed to find anyone in the basement, he followed the sound of a barking dog to a room under the basement, where a chain was wrapped around a door handle.

Inside he saw two small dogs and blankets, and then people's faces.

"It was terrible," he said. "Something I never expected to see in my life."

He then called police, who found the adults in the 15ft by 15ft (4.5m), room, surrounded by buckets of their own excrement.

According to police interviews with the captives , they had been brought to Philadelphia about 10 days before they were found, having been in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Texas.

Linda Ann Weston and Eddie Wright recently lived for about two months at a home in West Palm Beach, stripping it of wire and plumbing and smearing faeces on the walls, according to a report by the Palm Beach Post.

Previously she served eight years in prison for starving to death 25-year-old Bernardo Ramos. Ramos had refused to support her sister's unborn child.

She held him in the closet of their Philadelphia apartment in 1981 for two months, feeding him only three times, according to reports."

Like US, UK has been starving small and medium sized businesses

Tweet "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses"...

10/7/11, "Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'," BBC

"Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said this financial crisis could be the worst the UK has ever seen.

His comments came after the Bank authorised the injection of a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

Explaining the move Sir Mervyn told Sky News: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen at least since the 1930s, if not ever."...

"Mervyn King wrote to the chancellor earlier on Thursday, setting out the MPC's case for expanding the asset purchasing programme.

In his letter of response, in which he authorised the move, Chancellor George Osborne said: "I agree that an increase in the ceiling would provide the MPC with scope to vary the stance of monetary policy to meet the inflation target."

In his speech to the Conservative Party conference earlier in the week, Mr Osborne said that the Treasury would look into "credit easing" - a way to underwrite loans to small businesses who are struggling to get credit now.

He confirmed this in his letter to Mr King: "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses, the Treasury is exploring further policy actions. Such interventions should complement the MPC's asset purchases.""...

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All of this was predictable, preventable, and in the private sector would often result in jail time. Government is the best place to be today if you like white collar crime. ed.

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