Everything about Angelo Tsakopoulos totally explained
Angelo Tsakopoulos (born 1936) is a prominent real estate developer in
Sacramento, California and the founder and owner of AKT Development. Tsakopoulos was fined by the
EPA for a violation of the
Clean Water Act. Tsakopoulos sued the government and was able to bring his case to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
From the
Association of State Wetland Managers
:
» "The case grew out of Tsakopoulos' preparations to subdivide part of the 8,350-acre (33.8 km²) Borden Ranch into apple orchards and vineyards. He used a method of soil preparation called deep plowing or deep ripping to loosen the clay subsurface of nearly 1,000 acres (4 km²) so that the roots of deep-growing trees and vines could penetrate. During the course of that work, about two acres of wetlands also were plowed, although to lesser depths."
» "But Tsakopoulos argued that normal farming practices, including deep plowing, were excluded specifically from the Clean Water Act."
» "The government said that was true only if the plowing didn't change the character of the farmland."
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Interestingly enough, Justice
Anthony Kennedy had to recuse himself from the case because of his acquaintance with Tsakopoulos and only eight justices were left deciding the case. The ruling turned out to be a 4-4 tie. Because of the tie, the ruling against Tsakopoulos by the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals was automatically affirmed.
In 2002, Tsakopoulos purchased a 70,000 volume collection on
Hellenistic civilization and donated it to the library of
California State University, Sacramento where it's available for use by the community
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Tsakopoulos is well known throughout the Sacramento community, and beyond, for his remarkable commitment to philanthropy and is remarked as one of the regions best assets.
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