October 19, 2005, NY1 — The city’s Department of Investigation is cracking down on a Brooklyn building owner accused of having more than 1,300 violations in his properties. According to the DOI, a wide investigation of properties run by Abdur Rahman Farrakhan, president of the Oceanhill Brownsville Tenants Association (OBTA), was sparked when a tenant in one of his buildings showed the agency a container of peanut butter than had been gnawed through by rodents. Last month, a multi-agency task force searched OBTA’s 27 apartment buildings over a nine-day period, resulting in more than 1,300 citations and violations. The DOI says it also found that the OBTA owes more than $6 million in back taxes, and an additional $1 million for water bills.
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