Jim Steinberg,Staff Writer
Posted: 11/29/2012 07:56:12 PM PST
SAN BERNARDINO – Many described him as the “hardest working attorney” they had ever known.
He was a legend in redevelopment law, they said, and he astounded others in his total recall of events that happened many years ago.
Timothy J. Sabo, who was the legal architect for the redevelopment of the former Norton Air Force Base, died Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer.
He was 65.
He was a brilliant lawyer, said Redlands Attorney John Mirau. He started out as a bond counsel. But he was also an expert in redevelopment, Mirau said.
“He had been a key legal advisor to the city of San Bernardino long before the closing of the base,” said Mirau, who knew Sabo for 25 years both as an opposing counsel and a co-counsel.
“He was key to negotiations with the Air Force and in additional to legal knowledge, was very savvy about how to get things done,” Mirau said.
San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris also praised Sabo for his leadership.
“He led us through the twists and turns of the development of the airport,” Morris said.
The resulting logistics center that is there “is a tribute to his drafting talents as a lawyer … . His passing saddens me deeply,” Morris said. “This is a great loss to the community, the city and the Inland Valley Development Agency.”
Sabo could recall circumstances and events that go back decades, Morris said.
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“He was a brilliant lawyer, said Redlands Attorney John Mirau.”
== A “FRIEND” of John Mirau, that explains the article in the SBC SENTINEL:
“Death Claims Tim Sabo, Attorney Who Enabled Government Financing SCHEMES”
“Sabo’s clients recognized he could be counted upon to find a way to proceed with their programs and agendas, DESPITE legal restrictions or regulations that hamstrung them.
Sabo was valued as a “facilitator” who rendered legal opinions other attorneys were often UNWILLING to provide to enable government to undertake projects or make funding arrangements that allowed cities and joint public agencies to proceed with policies that were CONTROVERSIAL and subject to LEGAL OPPOSITION or challenge.
In this way, Sabo PERSONALLY PROFITED as a consequence of the legal advice he was providing as redevelopment attorney, throwing the wisdom of that advice into question….ultimately resulting in a state attorney general’s opinion that highlighted the conflict-of-interest inherent in such arrangements. ”
==== QUEEN, AGIAN…
“You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you preach
Screw my brain till it hurts
You’ve taken all my money
And you WANT MORE
Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules
With your narrow minded CRONIES
Who are fools of the first division”
Speaking of the SBC SENTINEL, Mr. Sabo, Mr. John Mirau, and their friends and associates (Congressman Lewis, Hansberger, etc) on the EAST SIDE …I found a fitting quote printed in the SENTINEL buried way back in January of 01/08/2010
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result.
But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”
–C.S. Lewis