A developer fighting to retain control of his North Bay Village condo project can hire a lawyer to investigate alleged Cuban embargo violations by his note holder, but he won’t be able to use funds from his distressed estate, a bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.
The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol clears the way for Harbour East Development, headed by Cielo on the Bay developer Mario Egozi, to hire Nicolas Gutierrez of Gutierrez Zarraluqui & Franco to investigate any violations Canadian real estate firm Thibault Messier Savard & Associates may have committed under the 1996 Helms Burton Act. The law bans the leaders of foreign companies that deal in confiscated Cuban property formerly owned by Americans from entering the United States.
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