A Manhattan Housing Court judge has sanctioned a well-known real estate lawyer who withheld maintenance payments on his own Park Avenue co-op for lying "repeatedly and without shame" in a 2005 nonpayment proceeding. Steven R. Lapidus claimed that he did not know about a stipulation that settled an earlier nonpayment action and could not be bound by it. But Housing Court Judge Gerald Lebovits called Lapidus' claims "unbelievable" in sanctioning him $10,000 for making a frivolous misrepresentation.
October 13, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A Manhattan Housing Court judge has sanctioned a well-known real estate lawyer who withheld maintenance on his own Park Avenue co-op for lying “repeatedly and without shame” in a 2005 nonpayment proceeding.
The co-op board of 1050 Park Avenue brought an action against attorney Steven R. Lapidus in 2004, claiming he was illegally withholding maintenance payments in violation of a 1999 stipulation that settled an earlier nonpayment action.
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