More On The Stamford Lieberslum

by: tparty

Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 11:00:00 AM EDT

From an emailer, here's another couple of pics from the site from earlier this fall:

The other co-executor of the estate explains:

Bernstein said that news of the mess and the squatters was "a surprise," and told the Weekly that "we are ultimately responsible to maintain" the properties. "We had people there daily," he said. "We had a management company that worked continually to try and keep the properties clean and secure. I thought they did a good job, generally, though they were frustrated with the dumping and the vandalism."

So, many of these completely livable properties were left unlocked, abandoned, and dilapidated until they could be sold in a $17 million deal to develop them into a monster office complex (bigger, apparently, than the gargantuan RBS building going up across the highway).

And while the deal for this property was being worked out (it was only announced in February of this year), the co-executor of the estate, who happened to be a United States Senator in highly contested primary and general election, also happened to rake in $2.5 million in campaign contributions from real estate developers. Hmmm.

Also, this isn't the first time that Uncle Ben's buildings have gotten Sen. Lieberman into the headlines. Check out the last paragraph from this story that surfaced during the 2000 campaign:

The will also requires Lieberman to monitor some of the family's religious activities. Manger pledged to pay his grandchildren's college tuition, so long as they attended Sabbath services twice a month and joined a campus-based Jewish organization.