It cannot be disputed that besides the utter tragedy, deaths, destruction and in many cases, complete destitution of some of Harrisburg’s residents in its wake, the Leap Day Tornado of 2012 left behind a lot of questionable situations.
Chief among those, of course, were ongoing questions as they surrounded the incredible influx of money arriving from all over the country to help those in need; the same about items such as appliances, furniture and clothing; and people coming to Harrisburg to work on the recovery.
Disclosure learned early on that there were at least a handful of people who were licensed in contracting, plumbing, electric and the like, who were turned away from providing assistance to those in need because of having criminal records or other questionable activity in their history. Others from out of the area came under scrutiny after their activities locally brought them into the public’s eye. Their work post-tornado was viewed by some in Harrisburg as little more than an effort to get their names out there and at the same time not “help” so much as it was to supposedly take advantage of the chaos…and the hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing into the city.
And then there’s this guy, whose activity hasn’t so much been called into question as his very presence in Harrisburg HAS been.
Here now is your mid-day Read the Lead, Storm volunteer’s actions questioned, a page 1 story appearing in the current (May-June 2014) edition of Disclosure:
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Dan Moutria
HARRISBURG—The presence of many out-of-area people coming to Harrisburg to assist in clean-up and recovery from the 2012 Leap Day Tornado was accepted and even welcomed in many cases.
However, questions have arisen over a Madison County man who has reported to Disclosure sources that he’s now set up a residence in Harrisburg.
And further concern has been displayed by these sources due to the fact that the man claims he’s “taken up with” a very well-known, well-thought-of, genteel woman whose husband’s exploits have made front-page news after court cases were brought out last year.
Whether or not this woman is supporting Dan Moutria, 51, is currently in question.
However, his past exploits, according to court documentation out of Madison County, show that there is a history of just that thing…and that Moutria has a large judgment against him in a 2013 case (amidst a handful of others in that county), in which there’s been little movement to pay back a woman to whom he’d become indebted, well over $40,000.
These documents show that Moutria, originally from Granite City, has been employed by the railroad in East St. Louis for a number of years and traveled all over.
The history of how the $43,000 debt began to be incurred originated in 2011 while Moutria was volunteering at a local food pantry in Madison County: he met the plaintiff, who also was volunteering at that location and shortly thereafter began racking up a number of monetary requests against both the plaintiff and her husband.
At first it was in amounts requested of both of them to the tune of $200 or $300 for random things (“to pay bills” was the general reasoning) but when the woman and her husband split and she became romantically involved with Moutria, that, documents show, was when the amounts grew in amount and frequency.
In one instance, Moutria had the woman to wait at his house because the cable company was threatening to cut him off for a due bill, amount not specified. When the cable company did show up, the woman was told that the amount was $360; and when she advised Moutria of that, he asked that she pay it and he’d pay her back…
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