Goshen, NY – An Orange County realtor from Goshen, who maintains that the County of Orange and County Executive Edward Diana purposely blocked his client from being considered to purchase the former Camp LaGuardia property, has filed a federal lawsuit.
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Robert Lawrence claims the county and Diana violated the Fair Housing Act when Diana allegedly blocked his client, a Hasidic Jew, from being considered to buy the property for development.
In the lawsuit, Lawrence alleges Diana expressed his intent to block the developer and refused to consider the proposal to purchase the property through Lawrence.
“It’s our understand and information that upon receipt of that, Mr. Diana expressed directly that he would not consider this proposal; he did not want a Hasidic developer purchasing the property; he did not want another Kiryas Joel created in Orange County, not that that developer was intending to create another Kiryas Joel, but that was the response.”
Lawrence said that resulted in a loss of commission to him, a loss which provides him standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act.
The county has sold the property to Mountco Developers of Westchester County, in a deal Lawrence claims was inferior to his.
It seems pretty clear that the people of Goshen told their people in official capacity that they certainly don’t want a whole bunch of Orthodox Jews moving in. Of course, that will never be open in the news. In the news, there will some mundane, false reason connected to zoning or the background of the Jew who dared to try to be a capitalist in this new Obama social/communist country.
As an attorney you would also give to benefit of doubt in any case where one claims discrimination.
http://www.vinnews.com/17508/2008/06/27/blooming-grove-ny-high-bidder-for-camp-la-guardia-indentified-as-real-estate-mogoul-jacob-selechnik/
This is about the “Impact the chasidim” have on the surrounding communites.
KJ has 68% poverty rate and is a huge drain on the taxpayers as they virtually pay no taxes. Chasidim is not a contributer. OC is better off selling the place to entities that pay their share of taxes. Chasidim communties don’t. That is what this real block is about.