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For California paperchanger Mark Specht, the moment of truth in his long-running fight with a Jewish burial society based in the Lower East Side came a few weeks ago in a tense meeting in the offices of the New York State Attorney General For the past four years, Specht has been battling in and out of court with the Lanzuter Benevolent Association over allegations thatthe organization has not fulfilled its mission to finance the costs of funerals for its members, and has instead warehoused hundreds of grave sites in New York and New Jersey, and even misappropriated money. Officials at the State Division of Cemeteries say that this selling of graves is a significant problem.\n It's easy to get a glimpse of the black market in graves by sifting through the pages of Craigslist, noting the individuals selling graves they pnrportedly own State Cemetery officials constantly complain to Craigslist that the company must have proof of ownership before posting those ads on the website.
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For California paperchanger Mark Specht, the moment of truth in his long-running fight with a Jewish burial society based in the Lower East Side came a few weeks ago in a tense meeting in the offices of the New York State Attorney General
For the past four years, Specht has been battling in and out of court with the Lanzuter Benevolent Association over allegations thatthe organization has not fulfilled its mission to finance the costs of funerals for its members, and has instead warehoused hundreds of grave sites in New York and New Jersey, and even misappropriated money.Specht and his lawyer, Jamie Forman, had finally secured a face-to-face meeting with the man who runs the society, 94-year-old Ben Sauerhaft, along with his accountant and grandson, Adam Gottlieb, and their lawyer, Martin Cohen. Robert Molic, an assistant attorney general, was there to mediate the dispute.At the climax of the meeting, Specht and Forman say, Cohen leaned across the ta...See the full content of this document
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