[CPEO-BIF] Oregon firm accused of selling asbestos-contaminated real estate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State strikes back at MBK

By DYLAN DARLING
Klamath Falls Herald and News
March 23, 2005

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers has accused the developers of the 
North Ridge Estates of racketeering and asked a judge to fine the 
partners $3 million and put them out of business.

Myers said in a civil suit that the business partners of MBK Partnership 
of Klamath Falls sold real estate they knew contained asbestos and 
didn't tell buyers.

"We believe that these folks were engaged in a pattern of activity where 
they misrepresented the product to these potential consumers," said 
spokesman Kevin Neely.

In advertising and selling homes and plots at the 52-acre subdivision 
between 1990 and 2002, the company violated state racketeering laws, 
Myers said in court papers filed Friday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2005/03/23/news/top_stories/top1.txt
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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