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WEDNESDAY 06.03.15

VOLUME 136

NUMBER 132

SINCE 1879

Residents of a Lakewood adult community are on the verge of los-

ing their clubhouse and pool to a tax lien foreclosure, if they

dont agree to pay off a developers $275,000 tax debt. hThe com-plex case may be the first of its kind in New Jersey, if not the

U.S., according to a national trade group for community associa-

tions. hOutraged residents of Horizons at Woodlake Greens, a 209-home,55-and-over community off Joe Parker Road, are refusing to bail out the

developer, Glen A. Fishman, and have filed a lawsuit to stop a tax lien

investor, Pro Capital Fund I LLC, from taking possession of the property.

h The bottom line here is were being wronged. Plain and simple, said

resident Robert L. Panarella, 71.

If you take the clubhouse and thepool away, its not a community any-more, added resident and trustee RalphS. DeToma, 67.

Members of Horizons board of trust-ees say they didnt know the lien existeduntil they were blindsided by an emailfrom Pro Capitals attorney on Feb. 12 in-forming them that the property was inthe final stages of foreclosure.

It is Pro Capitals position that a fore-closure judgment will extinguish theWoodlake Greens residents right to usethe Clubhouse facilities, the email stat-ed. Please be guided accordingly.

Pro Capital, based in Philadelphia,and its attorney, Gary C. Zeitz, did not re-turn calls seeking comment.

Residents can halt the foreclosure ifthey agree to pay off the debt, the emailstated. With 209 homes, the amount

works out to about $1,400 per household.Residents say they cant abide that op-

tion.Glen Fishman didnt pay his taxes.

He knew about this. He received thosetax bills. He was served with the foreclo-sure notice, said board president LynnFoxen, 65.

So here we are, retired people, manyliving on a fixed income, looking for thatpeace and quiet. Were the only ones whodid nothing wrong, and were the oneswho have to pay the freight.

Tax lien ties

The foreclosure action, initiated inJanuary 2014, resulted from a chain ofevents triggered by a $1 million assess-

TAX FIGHT OVER POOLAnomaly may cost Lakewood senior group $275,000

ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE PHOTO

Glen A. Fishman, Horizons atWoodlake Greens developer.

SHANNON MULLEN @MULLENAPP

See POOL, Page 6A

"Glen Fishman didnt

pay his taxes. He

knew about this. He

received those tax

bills. He was served

with the foreclosure

notice."

LYNN FOXEN, 65BOARD PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON Accident-avoidancetechnology for trains will be in placefor the entire Northeast Corridor bythe end of this year, Amtrak Presidentand CEO Joseph Boardman told Con-gress Tuesday.

The technology, known as positivetrain controls, would have preventedthe May 12 derailment of an Amtrak re-gional train in Philadelphia that killedeight people, according to the NationalTransportation Safety Board (NTSB).Positive train controls already operateon Amtrak trains between Boston andNew Haven, Conn.

The controls have been installed onthe tracks between New Haven andWashington, but they havent been acti-vated while Amtrak tests the radio fre-quency there, Boardman told membersof the House Transportation and Infra-structure Committee. Amtrak ownsmost of that length of track, except be-tween New Haven and New Rochelle,N.Y. That section is owned by the Met-ro-North commuter railroad operatedby New York and Connecticut.

The train that derailed probablywould have stayed on the tracks had itbeen moving slower than 98 mph,

Amtrak:Trains tobe saferby 2016 BRIAN TUMULTY @NYINDC

See AMTRAK, Page 6A

WASHINGTON A federal officialsaid Tuesday he cant explain why in-surers or engineering firms may havemanipulated flood insurance claims tominimize payments to some super-storm Sandy victims.

Brad Kieserman, deputy associateadministrator for insurance at the Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency,also said the National Flood InsuranceProgram has lost touch with its policy-holders and must be reformed. Somesurvivors of the 2012 storm didnt getthe compensation they deserved, he

Feds, insurerslet victims ofSandy down,official says NICOLE GAUDIANO @NGAUDIANO

INSIDE

Update on the status of lawsuits stemmingfrom Sandy claims, PAGE 8A

See SANDY, Page 8A

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