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Just keep taking the building to court, you don't need an attorney you can start a pro se order to show cause. First of all fines and violations are illegal there is no clause in the PL or black book or bylaws or BCL that fines and violations can be issued to coop owners, that easily can be beat. For harrassment of non repairs you call the HPD 311 and issue a complaint as long as it is the buildings responsibility you take them to court or if the don't fix the problem within 60 days the HPD will issue the building a fine and you can have your repairs fixed by a contractor and bring the invoice to court with the HPD complaint and your money will be refunded by the order of the court. Just keep taking them to court and paying for legal fees they will eventually stop when they see what it will cost the building for legal fees plus to fix your apt. and fines for not complying. Then I would send a letter to all shareholders as to what the super/president is costing the building to harrass shareholders. You can also collect proxies to start a special meeting to remove all you need is 25% of shareholders to sign a proxie and call the meeting to remove him as President. Look in your Black Book it will help you get rid of him it will illustrate clauses to remove an officer such as he. You also need the majority of the Board to remove him as an officer without cause, they could just vote him down. Remember, any decisions he makes the majority of the Board must agree with his decision. Good Luck!
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