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Assemblyman Schroeder's Companies Face Eviction, Government Suspension

Two Hillsdale-based companies owned by Assemblyman Robert Schroeder have been suspended from doing business with the government and are facing possible eviction due to unpaid rent.

 

The U.S. Army has suspended all business with two companies owned by State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, according to a report on NJ.com, and a bank which gave Schroeder mortgages for two Hillsdale properties used by the companies filed complaints to evict them Tuesday.

The Army alleged the companies, All Points International and Hercules Global Logistics, failed to pay subcontractors and deliver tents for work in Afghanistan, according to the report. 

API previously protested the loss of two government bids, according to records from the Government Accountability Office. In the first, officials at the General Services Administration picked a more expensive bid because they were not happy with the features offered by API's products. In another case, GSA officials picked another bid over API's because they were unhappy with the company's past performance.

In further trouble for the two companies, a rent receiver filed a pair of complaints Tuesday to evict them from two Hillsdale properties the Oritani Bank had given Schroeder mortgages for. 

The bank filed seven suits in August for properties it had loaned money to Schroeder and which he allegedly defaulted on. The rent receiver was later appointed, but API and Hercules have failed to pay rent for the past three months on the two properties they occupy, accruing more than $69,000 in rent and late fees, according to the complaints.

Calls to API were not returned Tuesday.

Schroeder was also sued by Lakeland Bank last week for allegedly failing to pay more than $500,000 for a loan and interest. He is currently facing several different lawsuits for loans he has allegedly failed to pay back and was also charged in August with writing almost $400,000 in bad checks to a pair of investors.

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Related Topics: All Points International, Hercules Global Logistics, Hillsdale, Pascack Valley, Robert Schroeder, and Washington Township

Barry Black

3:23 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Is there a fund being set up to raise money for Schroeder's defense----what a nice guy!

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scruffy

4:13 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Oh but it is so nice to live in the Land of Denial.
C'mon Christie time to make the man resign and I use the term man loosely here.

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B@B

4:54 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

It's time for Mr. Schroeder to realize he has to a) resign; and b) scale back his lifestyle to fit his income. He's been grifting for too long.

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scruffy

5:31 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Oh but does he actually have an income at this point or only large debts. It is obvious the Banks are foreclosing on the properties as they should to satsfy the loan debts. Now what properties will be left after that to satisfy the other debts is the curiousity. Once that is done he still will be in arrears and I doubt any famiy member has the money to pay it off so who pays......we the taxpayer and the poor fools who thought they had a get rich quick deal.

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Falcon Fan

7:33 pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

How come Christie is so silent on this! I guess he is spending too much time out of state stumping for his pal Mitt.

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David

10:11 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

This drama has been written many times before. Here's the plot: Small businessman becomes successful through short-cuts (in this case gov't connections). Sees more money that he's ever seen before and thinks its through his "entrepreneurial" genius. Passively "announces" his wealth buy giving through local charitable causes but making sure his pictures are in the local papers. Realizes the business and cash flow is no longer sustainable. Borrows to maintain lifestyle. Does not cut-back expenses for fear of losing "imagined" adoration but defaults on loans instead. He's finally caught and thinks he can talk his way out of it. Tries to stay out of prison. Files for bankruptcy. Loses all things material and hopes he doesn't lose his family's love. Spends a few years in the federal penitentiary, finds religion, released then moves out of state to become anonymous and start fresh.

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B@B

6:35 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

BINGO, David! Exactly. And thanks for mentioning the FACT, yes, the REALITY, that Mr. Small Government Schroeder whose ambition is three times the size of his wallet even at the best of times, made his money off of taxpayers through GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. We have no way of knowing if Mr. Republican Schroeder could have succeeded in a genuine competitive marketplace that he and his fellow Republicans worship so. The one part of your story that remains to be seen is if he ends up in prison. I'm guessing he won't, under the IOKIYAR rule (It's OK If You're A Republican).

scruffy

10:28 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

It's a made for TV movie where he then plays himself in a reality show/movie and profits from it all therefor climbing back to the lifestyle he was accustomed to and laughing all the way back to the Bank.
The sick part is he could really do that I fear. When and I say WHEN in capital letter, he finally sits before a judge they better put a condition that he CANNOT profit from his story. Any monies earned must only go to satisfy the debts and into a fund for anything but him personally.

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Carey Grant

9:15 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
JC

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Ipso Facto

12:00 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Good Carey You pay his way maybe he'll let you borrow his beach front home!

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B@B

12:18 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Wait...so you are saying that everyone should be automatically forgiven for anything they do? I guess Jerry Sandusky should be forgiven too. Oh wait...I forgot...you get a free pass for believing a story about a guy from 2000 years ago. You can judge me all you want to. I pay my bills, I don't default on my debts, I live within my means, and I sure as heck don't scam people who trusted me out of money. Oh yeah, and I don't decry big government and then make my living off of it either.

Carey Grant

1:19 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Everyone has to live with the consequences of their actions. Forgiving someone is not giving them a free pass. It actually frees you from the anger and madness that eats at you inside when you harbor a grudge. Think about it that way.

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scruffy

2:03 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

It would be a lot easier to start the forgiveness if the person in question admitted to what he has done, and attempted to make amends. Until such time as he steps up then the judgement as you call it will continue. He is in a position of authority and yes several of us commenting are or have also been in positions of authority. Maybe not as an Assemblyman however, that does not change the morality of it or civility. So stop preaching to all of us and maybe speak directly to the offender. No anger or madness eats at us. We are normal human/mortals who expect nothing more than the same if it were ourselves who had done such a thing.
Think about it this way we know some of the victims and family of his and are disgusted that he is not putting them first but instead himself and his very large EGO.

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B@B

7:25 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Let him pay back the people he has scammed and stop trying to keep up appearances when he is broke. Then we can talk about forgiveness.

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Joe Taxpayer

8:41 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Schroeds has only one way out of this mess. Switch parties and start bundling cash for the obummer/bitme campaign ala Jon MF Corzine route. Corzine, the man bitme and Barry call with questions on the economy, bankrupted MF global in a gambling scheme then covered the shortfall knowingly using $1.6 billion of pensioners money and like a good limo liberal, never reaching into his own pocket. He claimed ignorance and skated with his several hundred when osama buddy holder refused to investigate.

Schroeds money he owes is pocket change compared the Corzine heist.

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Joe Taxpayer

8:46 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Corswine was forgiven for the theft of $1,600,000,000. Why can't we forgive Schroeds for 15 0r 20 million?

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Joe Taxpayer

8:49 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Why doesn't slimeball jonny boy Corzine pay back the pensioners using his several hundred million dollar nest Egg?

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B@B

9:34 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

And this has exactly what to do with Bob Schroeder being a deadbeat?

Joe Taxpayer

11:06 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

If he was a osama bundler/democrat all would be forgiven and buried. It wouldn't even been issue in the Bergen record just like the former NJ governor stealing 1.6 billion

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B@B

6:57 am on Friday, October 12, 2012

As soon as you start callling the president by the name of the murderer of 3000 people on our soil you have lost all credibility on any issue. Please use the president's actual name and explain with actual facts and in consensus reality how if Barack Obama took personal or business loans from a half-dozen banks and from people who trusted him his whole life and never paid them back and never admitted wrongdoing, that he would get a free pass. Then maybe I might listen to what you have to say.

ed s

2:45 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012

why not get him to realize he caused the problem. just do not go on blaming every one else. he caused the problem ley suffer . he wrote the checks not everyone else. he is the problem

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ed s

2:58 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012

i feel bad that this happened but he did it himself. he made some good fools of some his good friends.

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Vmc dave

3:43 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Conflict of interest should be punished in criminal court

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Joe Taxpayer

11:20 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Must be a slow news week. The same story has been written 6 different times.

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Joe Taxpayer

11:22 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Big Bub - typos happen. You know I meant Barry Soetoro.

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