Saturday, June 15, 2013

Man Robbed By Lawless Band Of Indians Dies

It's too bad that David Jin didn't make it to see if he would prevail against a band of thieving Indians.
From the LVRJ: A Las Vegas businessman who developed the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge in northwestern Arizona and later became entangled in legal battles about it has died in Los Angeles, a company representative said Friday.
David Jin died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center after a four-year battle with cancer, Grand Canyon Skywalk Development spokesman David Weissman said. He was 51.
Jin’s death comes amid a continuing legal fight over his contractual rights to the Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped, glass-bottomed walkway that has become the Hualapai Tribe’s premier tourist attraction.
An attorney for the development company said Jin’s family will continue to pursue Skywalk legal rights.
Jin, originally from Shanghai, moved to the U.S. in 1988 and operated Oriental Tours Inc. and Y-Travel LLC in Las Vegas.
He already was ferrying tourists 2½ hours from Las Vegas to the west rim of the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai reservation when he approached the tribe with an idea to build the Skywalk. It opened in 2007.....
Jin invested $30 million to build the Skywalk.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-and-west/grand-canyon-skywalk-developer-david-jin-dies-la
The Hualapi band of thieving Indians basically stole the Skywalk from Jin when they found out that it was being successful. And they did it without compensating him for it.  They took him to their kangaroo court where they won judgments against him and now Jin's family have to through the federal courts to get their money back plus the damages the thieves took from him.
RIP Mr. Jin, it's too bad you were taken and you put up a good fight but when you go against a bunch of thieves and fraudsters, there's not a lot you can do.

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