1 New Year, accusing the town of "malicious interference" with the religious observance. They lawyers said that was “as much of a sacrilege and intentional harassment as an attempted inspection of a church on Christmas Day or a synagogue on Yom Kippur.”ĭragon Springs had served notice of an impending discrimination lawsuit one week after the Feb. That ended state jurisdiction over the building and left the matter in the hands of local authorities, Guerrin said.ĭragon Springs' attorneys also accuse the Fuscos of doing “excessive inspections” at the 427-acre compound, and trying to do a “wide-scope inspection” on the Chinese New Year and during a holiday recess period that followed it in February. Jordan Guerrein, a spokesman for the division, said Thursday that it wound up not ordering the closure of the cafeteria building because Dragon Springs claimed it had stopped using the building for college purposes. The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services has an office that inspects college buildings for fire protection and other safety functions. The November letter warned that the building would be ordered closed unless Dragon Springs provided confirmation by Dec. Its lawyers accuse town officials of alerting state officials that the cafeteria building had no certificate of occupancy, prompting warning letters first from the Department of Education in October and then the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in November. The suit alleges the Fuscos delayed certification for five years by tying it to what they said were problems with the sprinkler system in the attached "residence and reflection building." Dragon Springs denies that sprinkler system is faulty. That approval came in 2016, but the town has rebuffed requests by Dragon Springs since then to give final certification to use the cafeteria building. The lawsuit claims the town granted a temporary certificate of occupancy in 2012 for what is known as the cafeteria building, withholding a permanent certificate until its elevator was approved. "For reasons known only to them, they have failed to comply with typical requests for construction documents and inspections, and instead have turned to the courts and wrongly claimed discrimination in order to avoid steps required to ensure that safe building codes have been followed." "The town is only interested in protecting the people who live and work in the town, including those in Dragon Springs," Plotsky said. haven't filed a response yet to the complaint, which was submitted May 27. Town Attorney Glen Plotsky said he couldn't respond to questions from the Times Herald-Record because of the pending litigation, but issued a statement Wednesday. The suit, which is the second discrimination case the Chinese dissident group has brought against the town, casts the town's refusal to grant final approval as the culmination of 20 years of obstruction and harassment by town officials and "a few hostile residents." The case attributes that alleged hostility to the ethnicity and religion of Falun Gong practitioners and the property's tax exemption.ĭragon Springs is demanding the town issue a certificate of occupancy and pay damages for various reasons, including at least $2 million every six months for what it describes as an unlawful taking of its property.Īttorneys for Deerpark and the father and son who run its building department - Al Fusco III and Al Fusco Jr.
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Dragon Springs has spent more than $23 million on the building, which opened in 2012 and houses administrative and teaching offices and classrooms for Fei Tian College, plus a dining hall for both the college and a school that serves grades 5-12, according to the complaint.ĭiscrimination claims: Dragon Springs initiates lawsuit against Deerparkįederal suit: Neighbors, environmental accuse Dragon Springs of stream pollutionĮpoch ties: Conservative newspaper linked to Falun Gong buys Middletown offices
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