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Brooklyn, NY - Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn today announced the indictment of A. H. for causing fraudulent plans to be filed with the Department of Buildings in connection with an application for permits to excavate at 791-793 Glenmore Ave, a job site where a building collapse would later kill a laborer.
Mr. H., 84, is charged with Nine Counts of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison for each count.
The indictment charges that in 2005, William Lattarulo hired an architect to design plans to build a laundromat at 791-793 Glenmore Ave, in East New York, Brooklyn. The architect in turn subcontracted the excavation portion of the designs to H. who is a professional engineer with Sanchez Associated. However, H., who had previously lost his authority to self-certify architectural designs, used a stamp belonging to his partner, Luis Sanchez, to certify them in Sanchez’s name. He also placed Sanchez’s signature on several documents filed in support of Lattarulo’s applications for building permits.
At the time of the incident, Sanchez was recovering from a severe brain injury and lacked the physical ability to review or certify architectural designs.
After acquiring the necessary building permits, Lattarulo commenced construction in a reckless manner, which ultimately lead to the death of a construction worker, when the adjacent building collapsed, according to a separate indictment announced June 11. In that indictment, Lattarulo is charged with Manslaughter in the Second Degree.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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Jun 19, 2008 at 04:54 PM YANKEL MOSHE Says:
A.H. Is the nicest person you every could find...its so sad to see him now suffer..
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Jun 19, 2008 at 05:09 PM Anonymous Says:
Anyone at or near any building site will now suffer. THE DOB is now crazy. Loss of life is always bad, and I do not know this situation or the people. But that atmosphere is bad for everyone. The DOB needs someone to blame for everything. The DOB inspectors are now scared from their shadow.
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Jun 19, 2008 at 05:32 PM Yankel Moshe Says:
who would ever want to become an architect or anything that has to do with the building department? A.H. is the straightest person you will ever fime It was an unfoutunate accident. it happens. hashem yazur
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Jun 20, 2008 at 01:33 AM MDN Says:
You are right. Seems to me like a cockamanie charge. He is the fall guy.