Trump Organization files $90,000 lawsuit against estate of man killed in Trump Tower apartment fire
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Trump Organization lawyer Sonja Talesnik has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Todd Brassner, the 67-year-old former art dealer who died after an electrical fire started in his Trump Tower apartment. According to the New York Post, the Trump OrganizatioTrump Organization files $90,000 lawsuit against estate of man killed in Trump Tower apartment fire
Trump Organization lawyer Sonja Talesnik has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Todd Brassner, the 67-year-old former art dealer who died after an electrical fire started in his Trump Tower apartment. According to the New York Post, the Trump Organization is seeking “$90,000 in unpaid common charges and fees from a Trump Tower resident.” Brassner’s apartment was not equipped with sprinklers, as Trump himself had spent tons of money lobbying against having to retrofit his towering monstrosity years before. Following two fatal fires in Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1998, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other elected officials debated legislation mandating landlords to retrofit existing buildings with sprinklers, if they did not already have them. Trump lobbied then-Councilman Archie Spigner that sprinklers were too expensive — at $4 per square foot — to install throughout an entire building, the New York Times reported at the time. The legislation was signed into law by Giuliani in 1999, but not before buildings like Trump’s crappy tower were given the loophole of being grandfathered out of the requirement. The rich in our country like to say that dying is too expensive. It’s the reason they claim to want to do away with the inheritance tax. But the real reason is that they want all of that money for themselves, and if you die before them, they want your money too. Read more