. >> i'm charles davidson, the executive director -- there we go. i'll start again. welcome to hudson institute, everyone. i'm charles davidson, the executive director of the kleptocracy initiative initiative here, and we are extremely honored to be hosting judge jose

. >> i'm charles davidson, the executive director -- there we go. i'll start again. welcome to hudson institute, everyone. i'm charles davidson, the executive director of the kleptocracy initiative initiative here, and we are extremely honored to be hosting judge jose grindal gonzalez who has come specially from spain to visit us for a couple of days with this event here and various other things going on in town. he's really an example what have can be done, and i don't want to say more about him by way of introduction because he's going to speak about what he has done and what is going on in spain in terms of the work that they are doing, so i don't want to color that in any way, shape or form. i would like, of course, to say just a very brief word about the kleptocracy initiative and how this fits into where we are now because it's been, well, almost exactly four years since we started this effort here, and -- and initiality tily it was help [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ]

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davidson, could we can get your property crossed off the list, we'd appreciate that. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is charles donahue. i'm here for property 718 16th a ave. the notice i've been working with, the building department to try to get a final. i have a 3 1/2-year-old notice of violation that was -- that we were told was cleared and we could move forward with the construction of the project. we had an amendment for permit. the old permit that has an nov, it came up in january, where we were trying to sell the property. the neighbor is the one that actually has or should have had the nov because he would not agree to sign for a permit for geo grout, which his engineer requested that we do, even though we had a permit to not do geo grout and have appropriate showing plans. we agreed to accommodate the neighbor, as long as he would sign a geo grout permit, which he subsequently did not do. and he tydus up for almost nine months. and, finally, the inspectors and the head of inspecting, the supervisor, forgot his name, told us to go ahead and they would remove the nov. so we have no problem paying the p