Posted on 09/15/2010 4:22:32 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
The religious leader behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero has been slapped with a lawsuit in Union City, NJ, where officials have accused him of ignoring dozens of violations at two rundown apartment buildings he owns.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's buildings, with a total of 48 apartments, have been the targets of more than 30 health and safety complaints, among them mold, uncollected garbage, bedbugs, odors, dirty hallways and a lack of heat, the lawsuit says.
One of the buildings has been boarded up by Rauf since a blaze on Feb. 8, 2008, that broke out after Union City had issued a dozen fire-code violations there.
"He's a terrible landlord who's unresponsive to the residents who live in his building," Mark Albiez, a spokesman for Union City Mayor Brian Stack, told The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, which first reported the lawsuit.
The Post last month interviewed tenants at Rauf's buildings on Central Avenue in Union City, and heard complaints about rundown conditions.
"Nothing gets done. We have to go through City Hall to get things done," said tenant Jamie Barillas.
An e-mail seeking comment from Rauf through his Cordoba Initiative was not returned yesterday.
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O.K. gang, here’s the bet: will the MSM try to cover this up or seize on it as an opportunity to discredit Rauf and drive him from the public square?
He’s become a major embarrassment to the Great and Good who first unthinkingly embraced him and they are desperate to be rid of him.
I’m not sure at this point if the msm needs to cover it. Enough has come out that I think the so-called “frivolous” lawsuits are going to tie up that dead-eyed imam for years. Bloomberg has gotten awfully silent in the last few days, lol.
I have a good feeling about this. I don’t - at this point - think it’s going to happen. Smart, savvy and patriotic people have beaten the ham-handed, dead-eyed imam to the punch. He may be on the ropes.
Unfortunately, I’m always wrong but I still feel good in predicting this will be a win-win for NYC and America. God Bless America and New York City.
Rauf will never get the money and no-one in NYC will ever work on the mosque. That is a given. I knew this from the start and was amazed that Obama, Bloomberg and the MSM would jump in with both feet without checking his shady background.
The only question now is how he will leave the scene. He has become a spectacular Tar Baby for the Left. The MSM has gotten egg all over it’s collective face for trying for weeks to browbeat us into submission and failing. He is a monster embarrassment for Obama and Bloomberg and everyone wants him to go away. The only question is how.
Will they try to find some way to surreptitiously pay him off or is he going to suffer some kind of unfortunate accident. He is having too much fun to go away on his own.
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