A developer fighting to retain control of a North Bay Village condominium wants to use as leverage a U.S. law designed to penalize foreign companies doing business with Cuba.

Mario Egozi, who heads Harbour East Development, wants U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol to allow him to prove Cielo on the Bay’s mortgage holder violated the 1996 Helms-Burton Act that bans the “trafficking” of property confiscated during the Cuban revolution.

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