Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Edith Marie Johnson of Vidor, Texas files for bankruptcy due to 1994 lawsuit from HUD.

On June 5, 2017, a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case was filed by Edith Marie Johnson in the jurisdiction of U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, Texas Southern Bankruptcy. The case is pending along with another pending case from a separate lawsuit not related to HUD vs. Edith Marie Johnson.

She filed for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy due to the expensive charges brought against her in the 1994 lawsuit of HUD vs. Edith Marie Johnson where she was both criminally and civilly charged for engaging in discriminatory housing practices. She used threats of violence when engaging in these discriminatory housing practices.

Edith Marie Johnson is indigent and undoubtedly she will not be able to pay the awards to both parties involved in the HUD vs. Edith Marie Johnson lawsuit for engaging in discriminatory housing practices. She more or less stays away from news media and cannot be reached for comment because she has no phone.


Here is the backstory to Edith Marie Johnson’s Chapter 13 bankruptcy case.

In 1993 when Bill Simpson was living at the Vidor Villas housing complex in Vidor, Texas, Edith Marie Johnson made his life into a living terror regularly on a daily basis. 

Edith Marie Johnson taunted Bill Simpson with racial slurs. She had threatened his life through a campaign of intimidation. Edith Marie Johnson regularly threats at him along with those hurled obscenities. She also threatened the life of Ross Dennis, president of the resident council.

Edith Marie Johnson told The Beaumont Enterprise, "If I had a gun, I'd kill that nigger.” If he comes into my yard, I'll kill him with my baseball bat.” “Look at those niggers. I could just puke."  She even went as far as to appear on the Phil Donahue show in 1993.

It has been reported that Edith Marie Johnson was an avowed racist and a white supremacist. She was a member of the Vidor Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a member of the White Nationalist Movement. She believed blacks did not belong in Vidor. Over the years, she associated herself with separatist organizations.

Bill Simpson and Ross Dennis later submitted an affidavit to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1993.

Edith Marie Johnson moved out in January 1994 amid finding out about renewed efforts to bring more blacks in to the HUD housing complex. Edith Marie Johnson was a former resident of the Vidor Villas HUD complex. She moved to Lumberton, Texas in the same year. She more or less stayed away from news media and cannot be reached for comment because she has no phone.

The complaint against Edit Marie Johnson was brought by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On July 26, 1994, Edith Marie Johnson of Vidor was ordered by federal Administrative Law Judge Alan Heifitz to pay $175,000 to the estate of Bill Simpson and $125,300 to Ross Dennis for emotional distress. She was also assessed a $10,000 civil penalty for engaging in discriminatory housing practices. White supremacist Edith Marie Johnson was sentenced to 40 hours of community service.

Edith Marie Johnson moved out in January 1995 amid finding out about renewed efforts to bring more blacks in to the HUD housing complex. She moved to Lumberton, Texas in the same year. She had began attending classes teaching racial sensitivity.

On June 5, 2017, a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case was filed by Edith Marie Johnson in the jurisdiction of U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, Texas Southern Bankruptcy. The case is pending along with another pending case from a separate lawsuit not related to HUD vs. Edith Marie Johnson. She realized she could not pay off these court fines which ultimately led her to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy.

4 comments:

  1. How could she file for bankruptcy in 2018 if she died in 2013....???

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    1. Her attorney could have helped her file for bankruptcy.

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    2. There is more than one person named Edith Marie Johnson.

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