Before we begin, let me get one thing out of the way. I don't have all the documents or information I need in order to write what I would consider a complete blog post. But since it's going to be a few days before I have time to get downtown again for what may be the last round of Pamiko court documents, I'm writing with what I've got. In a way, this is oddly appropriate. I'm somewhat of a completist, and when I first discovered a $2.5 million-dollar foreclosure, I wanted to do more research and get the whole picture before writing anything.
Instead, my friend, neighbor, and fellow blogger John Hoff told me about "All the President's Men," in which reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal knew they had a lead on something, but didn't know how big it was going to be. "Just write what you've got, and people will start contributing more information, and the rest of the story will happen," was essentially what John advised. And now look where we are, with Paul Koenig and his various LLC's being perhaps the most extensively covered topic in the NoMi blogosphere.
So we press on, knowing the picture is not yet complete, telling the story with what we've got, confident that the rest of the information will indeed follow. We start with the Affidavit of Minnwest President William Swanstrom, which states...
