Fitzgerald v. First East Seventh Street Tenants Corp.

Plaintiff Thomas Fitzgerald initiated this pro se action on July 29, 1999, remitting the required $150 fee upon filing his complaint. Fitzgerald contends that defendants “began a speculative venture with the intent to illegally function as an apart*363ment coop[e]rative.” Defendants allegedly “dec[ei]ved plaintiff by issuing him a ‘proprietary lease’ and a share certificate for 4 shares,” and then, after Fitzgerald had discovered the plan and refused to cooperate, “through a series of individual and separate acts involving fraud, mail fraud, fraud on the court, extortion, bribery, [and] abuse of…