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From a pay phone in Morristown, N.J., Kreimer keeps in contact with the producers who toil for the giants of television talk in a campaign to bring his message to the electronic masses. He is a homeless man with a story to tell, complete with a high-concept synopsis: He Took On a Town Without Pity...
...triumph over one's enemies is one of life's deepest satisfactions, and Kreimer has been blessed with the feeling. Thanks to a barrage of legal actions against suburban Morristown (pop. 16,500), Kreimer received a $150,000 out-of-court settlement last week. More money may be on its way. Usually sporting long black hair and scruffy beard, Kreimer resembles Rasputin -- and Morristown has discovered that he's just as difficult to dismiss...
...loans to return home. According to Joel Beecher, a family friend, people in the community wired hundreds of dollars; none of the money brought him home, and the loans were never repaid. Although Kreimer sold the house in 1981 for $61,000, he was broke upon arriving back in Morristown three years later. Bills and "family difficulties," he claims, absorbed his funds. Others counter that they attempted to help Richard get his life together and set up job interviews. He rebuffed them and started living on the streets...
...first Morristown brushed off Kreimer's demand for an apology and a minor cash settlement, convinced that the matter would die quietly. Instead, it grew to farcical proportions; 11 lawyers were soon involved in defending the town from Kreimer's legal assault, and its legal bills soared past $250,000. Ominously for Morristown, Kreimer began scoring other legal victories: last April the New Jersey attorney general allowed Kreimer's petition to list "the streets of the fourth ward of Morristown" as a voting address. The following month, Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin struck down the library's rules of conduct...
...around 1987 when the people of Morristown got sick of Kreimer. Perhaps it was his too familiar presence outside the Municipal Building, or his insistent and knowing manner in all things local. Moreover, he was no longer an oddity: Morristown's homeless population had swelled from a handful to more than 300. The town police began rousting street people from the parks and doorways. Most accepted the move-along policy. Kreimer didn...