U.S. Department
of Justice
United States v. Bedford Development LLC (S.D.N.Y.)
On March 15, 2019, the United States Attorney’s Office entered into a settlement agreement to resolve United States v. Bedford Development (S.D.N.Y.), a Fair Housing Act election and pattern or practice case. The complaint, filed on March 1, 2017, and amended on March 6, 2017, alleged that the defendants Robert Pascucci, Bedford Development, LLC, Carnegie Construction Corp., Jobco, Inc., and Warshauer Mellusi Warshauer Architects P.C. violated the Fair Housing Act on the basis of disability by failing to design and construct the Sutton Manor condominium building in Mount Kisco, New York with the accessibility features required by the Act. The settlement agreement requires the defendants to pay for up to $172,784 for retrofits to common areas and units, establish an aggrieved persons fund of $30,000, pay $322,216 for damages, attorneys’ fees, and unit retrofits to the private plaintiffs who filed the HUD complaints that initiated the matter, report future design and construction projects to counsel for the United States, and agree to refrain from discrimination based on disability in the future.
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