I CAME TO THE U.S.
IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM AND ENDED UP SEEKING AMERICAN JUSTICE. NONE OF
THESE DREAMS WERE FULFILLED. THE CORRUPTION I LIVED IN HOUSE 18 STAYED IN MY
BLOGS, A SUITCASE, AND A COURT ORDER TO MOVE ON JULY 8, 2022. May
6, 2022
ON APRIL 14, 2022, I FELT BLESSED, I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO
SPEAK TO A JUDGE, AND I HAVE A NEW COURT DAY ON MAY 6. I WAS OFFERED A DEFENSE
ATTORNEY. THIS IS MY INTRODUCTION TO THEM: “MY LIFE IN WRITING BECAUSE I CAN'T
LIVE IT”. April 17, 2022
I apologize for being too
expressive in presenting my case for your consideration. I want to introduce
myself to you so that you know who the person asking for help is.
My
name is Clemencia
Garzon, I
am a 67-year-old woman. On 1979 I came to New York City with a huge desire to
live the AMERICAN
DREAM. I
emigrated from Colombia South America with the hope of expanding knowledge of
my professional life. I was working in dactyloscopy for the Government of
Colombia in the National Registry of Civil Status in Bogotá identifying people
through fingerprints. I left everything behind and went through hell and beyond
to make my home in the United States. I've spent my whole life working hard to keep this dream
and the last years struggling to not let it fall apart. All the vicissitudes I
experienced are in a book that I wrote and called BEFORE AND AFTER THE BORDER (ANTES Y DESPUÉS
DEL SUEÑO AMERICANO)-
I
am proudly a citizen of the United States and believe in the Constitution that
protects the rights of liberty and justice of its citizens. In 1987 I became an
employee of United Jersey Bank, and then merged with Fleet Bank, Summit Bank
and today is known as BANK OF AMERICA. For 21 years I
performed exceptionally accruing various awards, merits, recognitions, bonuses,
coaching new employees, and certifications throughout the years. I was
medically discriminated by the bank, and this led to an unfair dismissal. The
bank's lawyers left me on the street demanding justice and selling the story I
wrote: “FOUR YEARS OF A LIVING HELL AT BANK OF AMERICA”.
In September
2012 I returned to New York after living in New Jersey for many years. I have
rented 18 rooms made in kitchens, living rooms and even in a closet. My housing survival has been harrowing
and marked by abuse, sexual assault, intimidation, repression and even death
threats. The miserable life I have endured living in rented rooms is the
experience I am currently writing in my latest book called "PLEASE KNOW
MY LIFE AMONG RATS."
Today April 14,
2022, when I was leaving my room, I found by my door a court notice that today I
have a virtual conference. The tenant 2 caregiver seemed was waiting in the
bathroom for me to pick it up.
Today April 14,
2022, when I was leaving my room, I found by my door a court notice that today I
have a virtual conference. The tenant 2 caregiver seemed was waiting in the
bathroom for me to pick it up. April 14, 2022
April 11,2022
I keep
fighting for justice! today I could only see the judge, but he didn't listen to
me. My former
landlady brought no evidence of her claim and disguised her corruption before a
mediator. My case was rescheduled for May 2, 2022.
THIS IS MY MOST EXCITING POST
EVER DONE. MY DEFENSE THAT FULFILL MY BIGGEST DESIRE TO BE IN A COURT BEFORE A
JUDGE AND ASK FOR JUSTICE.Here are 4 pages and 232 images. 96 from the harassment I lived with my former landlady Rosa Catano and
136 from the men she left in the apartment to continue it. 60 from tenants 1,
48 from tenant 2 and 28 from tenants 3.
CIVIL COURT
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
SMALL CLAIMS
PART, BRONX COUNTY
851 Grand
Concourse
Bronx, New York 10451
ROSA CATANO vs CLEMENCIA GARZON
Index No. SC-000966-21/BX
My name is Clemencia
Garzón, I am a 66-year-old woman asking for justice in a housing case where
I have been begging for help. My former landlady, Ms. Rosa Catano, has filed a
lawsuit against me for $9,600.00 in Small Claims Civil Court. I have not
received copies of the evidence that support her claim. On March 21, 2021,
after 6 months since she left the apartment, she handed me a letter indicating
that on April 11, 2022, I have a bench trial. Ms. Catano has already sued
me in a Housing Court to execute my eviction for a room she rented to me
on October 17, 2019, when she got a new apartment for her and her
son. Although her ex-husband was not going to live with her, he signed the
apartment lease. Ms. Catano's purpose was to rent rooms so as not to pay her
rent.
Due to the pandemic the
process of my eviction was delayed, and Ms. Catano took advantage of the
eviction moratorium to not pay her rent. I have refused mediation for her
$9,600.00 claim because this case is not just a matter of my eviction or rent
arrears, it is also a matter of sexual assault, harassment, intimidation, fears
for my life, and most of all physical and emotional damage for which I ask for
compensation.
Ms. Catano moved out of
the apartment on September 22, 2021, without giving me a notice.
She rented 2 rooms and the living room to African American men, marijuana
smokers. I still don't know how many there are, nor can I recognize them. This
is a small apartment without ventilation and the toxic environment that Ms.
Catano has subjected me to, has deteriorated my health. On February
28, 2022, I called 311 due to the effects produced by marijuana smoke, case
#EC-00421185 for secondhand smoke - In residence. Unfortunately, these
men are assigned by Ms. Catano to harass me with the smoke, and they do it
daily. The bathroom has a small window, and these men close it despite my
efforts to keep it open. I've asked everyone not to close it so that the bad
smell comes out, but no one cares that I breathe in the smoke of marijuana.
In
March the toxic air I breathe made me go to the hospital by emergency because
of an UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION with
severe symptoms of Shortness of breath-Cough-Nasal Congestion-Sore
Throat-Chills. This infection is worsening my health, I am still recovering
from the sequels left to me by the Covid-19 I had in 2020. It has been hard for
me to get rid of these symptoms neither follow doctor’s recommendation to stay
away from smokers because these men are home day and night smoking marijuana. I
have also been in the hospital due to skin infections with painful eruptions.
Ms. Catano locked with a key the extra bathroom the apartment has to force me
to share the toilet that is next to my room with the tenants.
As this is a case of
many fraudulent and corrupt actions from Ms. Catano, these are some of the most
relevant events. All are recorded as evidence to protect myself and are in my
website www.bankofamericamykiller.com
On 17 October
2019 the super of the building at 2666 Grand Concourse Apt 3 H
Bronx 10468 brought me to his friend Rosa Catano to rent a room. She
had remodeled the apartment so that two cousins Clara, Ivan and I would pay her
rent. She converted the living room into two bedrooms, one for herself and the
other for her 13-year-old son. The fire escape ladder was blocked, the
apartment was left dark and without ventilation.
On November 16,
2019, I was sexually assaulted in my room by Ivan. The next day I informed
Mrs. Catano of her cousin's action and although she believed me, she did
nothing. I went to the police station, and they suggested that I go to court
and file a complaint. I went to the Bronx Court to seek help, but my efforts to
find justice were unsuccessful. They sent me to several offices, and no one
could help me. At the Office of the District Attorneys Bronx County, I had the
opportunity to speak with Ms. Grace Phillips Assistant District for child abuse
and sex crimes. Ms. Phillips kept a letter with my complaint and some pictures.
The pandemic started and I lost contact with her.
In one of the visits of
Mr. Raul Caba, Ms. Catano’s ex-husband to his son, I told him what Ivan did to
me. Ms. Catano became enraged with me for revealing her cousin's actions
and resorted to fraudulent and criminal actions to throw me out of the house
and cover her cousin sexual assault. She protected him from any legal action
because of his undocumented emigrant status. However, on January 31,
2020, she confronted Ivan with me and admitted that he had attacked me
sexually. Ivan's sexual harassment continued. He walked through my door
half-naked just with a towel covering his intimate parts and sometimes it was
about to fall down. He waited for the moment I was alone in the kitchen washing
my dishes to approach me and push me into the sink. His shorts were almost in
the middle of his buttocks, and he didn’t wear underpants.
On February
25,2020, Ms. Catano and her cousin Clara Senra knocked on my door. Ms.
Catano wanted to know my full name to fill out a document saying that the court
had given her to file a lawsuit against me. Ms. Catano complained that her
13-year-old son was afraid because I was going to kill him and her. Clara
threatened to hit me.
Mr. Caba didn’t believe
his son had those feelings; I have been generous to the kid. He told me Ms.
Catano was using her son as an excuse to throw me out the house. The mental
manipulation and the hate that Ms. Catano has put to his son toward me, began
to take effect on August 17, 2020. I was in the kitchen, and he
lifted a flashlight and pointed the light at me in a clear act of hatred and
threat. When I met this kid, he broke my heart seeing the miserable life he was
having with an unfit mother.
On February 29,
2020, Ms. Catano began using letters and people stating they were coming
from the court to harass me with eviction, even though I had paid the month and
had no rent in arrears. Although this day we made an agreement that I would
wait for the court date and vacate the room with a judge's order, she continued
harassing me. A woman came to my door and handed me a letter of eviction signed
by Ms. Catano who said it was given by a judge and was a court order to vacate
the room. This letter has letterhead from Blumberg's law products office.
On March 20, 2020, Ms. Catano used a man to hand me the same
letter. I was verbally attacked by her.
On August 24,
2020, Ms. Catano brought a sofa to block the exit to the apartment and
the kitchen, leaving less than a foot to pass. Walking in the dark I tripped
over the couch breaking a glass jug with water and hurt my knee. Ms.
Catano chose to stay in her room talking on the phone instead of helping me. I
was in bed for a week in a lot of pain, I didn’t go to the hospital, my medical
insurance expired, also to avoid the Covid-19.
The family used the
smoke detector alarm to harass me, they burned food to trigger the smoke alarm.
The noise, the smoke, walking in the dark and knowing that there was no way to
escape terrified me. The fire escape ladder was blocked with a wall and door with
a key. August 28, 2020, I was in bed with my knee in pain due to
the sofa’s fall Ms. Catano triggered the fire alarm. I had to run out of my
room amid the darkness and smoke and as soon as she saw me screamed at me
saying: We’re burning! we’re burning! Ms. Catano removed the
lamp from the ceiling leaving the hallway dark and without a way to have a
light bulb. Triggering the smoke alarm became a habit and I reported it to the
police. September 8, 2020, at 4 p.m. someone abruptly knocked on my
door twice shouting at me that it was from the Bronx Civil Court. An unfriendly woman with an unpleasant attitude gave me an eviction
letter saying that I will be notified when it will be court day. September
13, 2020, I found on the floor next to my door a card with an unused
postage stamp to pretend that this was mailed to me. The note says the same as
the eviction letter.
On October 1, 2020, The Fire Department removed the wall and the door that were
blocking the access to the fire escape window. The coexistence became worse, we
had police’s visits. Ms. Catano had to use shower curtains in the living room
to continue having a room for her and her son. The cousins moved out without me
noticing. On July 2, 2021, I had a fight with Mrs. Catano called
the police. She would lock me out with the chain of the apartment’s door
to control my exits. Today I told her to stop traumatizing her son by having
him behind shower curtains, as he is afraid that I will kill him. Next day she
moved him to the room that her cousin Clara used to have. Even in this room he
remained locked up and with less contact with his parents. The father stayed
behind the curtains watching TV and the mother used this space to stalk me.
On August 10,
2021, in a strange way a man named Martin appeared by my room in the middle
of the darkness. He informed me that he is Ms. Catano's brother and would move
into Ivan’s room which is next to mine. Ms. Catano has no brothers in the US,
according to her she left her country using her ex-husband to obtain a residence
in the United States. The supposed brother never moved in. On August
22, 2021, African American men began moving into the room. They made
calls out loud using loudspeakers so I could hear them inform Martin about the
move. They speak English and Mrs. Catano speaks only Spanish, however she
escorted them when they were on the phone near my door. Their things were
brought in garbage bags and had a strong musty smell, it looked like they had
come from a basement. This was a rainy night due to Hurricane Henry and their
belongings looked dry the same as they did. The room is still stinky and there
is always someone inside, most of the time they have the light off and are
careful to prevent no one from seeing it. The man who always speaks loudly when
hears me coming out of my room, still doing it. I can hear him screaming,
cursing, laughing just to call my attention. Due to that room being beside
mine, the marijuana smoke and odors come directly to my room. There is a
teenager who lives with them that always catches my attention. He walks through
my door half-naked/ in underpants marking his intimate part and showing the
protuberance of his nipples. On September 15, 2021, two NYPD
officers came to my room and were informed of the situation that Ms. Catano had
put me through.
On September
17, 2021, a man rented the living room surrounded by curtains. In the
evening I heard him complaining and screaming loudly and I went to help him.
His mother was with him, and she told me that her son had an anxiety attack. He
was on the floor, I offered to take him to a hospital, but he refused to go.
One hour later I was surprised when he appeared in the kitchen to scare me and
grimace like the landlady's cousin used to do. Ms. Catano was in the dark
hallway waiting for my reaction. On November 17,2021 around
noon time, he broke the apartment’s door key. I tried to help him, but it was
unsuccessful, the super came and put a new lock. All night I asked him for a
copy of the key, and he told me Martin, the man in charge of renting rooms will
be distributing them. Next day I had to call the police to get a copy of the
key.
On January 22,
2022, he was recording me with his cellular after I took a shower and was
leaving the bathroom. This tenant only cares about enjoying his loud music to
scream with the loud sound produced by the speakers. He doesn't care about the
noises and the stinky marijuana that comes out under the curtains. This year
started receiving assistance from the New York City Social Services. A domestic
worker comes to the apartment to prepare his meals, clean his room and the area
where he moves.
September 22, 2021, Ms. Rosa Catano moved out of the apartment without giving me any
notice although she told me that was taking the benefit of the eviction moratorium.
She maintained a lot of cunning to hide her intentions to leave me alone with
unknown men. On the same day of her moving, new tenants were renting her room.
On December 3, 2021, the tenant's girlfriend put spray on my face
when she showed me how she eliminated the smell of marijuana.
I have nowhere to live,
and I don't have the income to qualify for a studio-apartment. I am waiting for
the two pending lawsuits that Ms. Catano has filed against me. One she is
accusing me that I am going to kill her and her son, and the other for
eviction. I am looking forward to the day my case is heard by a judge or jury
to have justice. Thank you for your attention to my case.
Sincerely,
Clemencia Garzon Date:
April 11, 2022
96 PICTURES FROM LANDLADY ROSA CATANO
60 PICTURES FROM TENANT 1
48 PICTURES FROM TENANT 2
28 PICTURES FROM TENANT 3
