Developer Mendel Brach was served with a subpoena last week to collect on a $10.9 million judgment after he allegedly failed to complete necessary repairs and obtain a certificate of occupancy at his troubled Spencer Street condominium project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit in July alleging that Brach, starting in 2003, fraudulently sold condominium units to the general public after obtaining a zoning variance for religious studies. The suit also alleges the 72-unit development is saddled with $8.9 million in construction defects, including leaks, mold, unsound walls and electrical problems. [more]
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