The man killed in the fire of the Trump Tower is being sued … by the Trump organization

Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Trump Tower's board was pursuing the man who died in a fire on the 50th floor of the building in April. The post office Considered a complaint filed Tuesday in the New York County Supreme Court, allegedly stating that the Trump Tower Condominium Residential Council, with the help of Trump Organization lawyer, Sonja Talesnik, was asking $ 90,000 to fire Todd Brassner, a resident at the turn of trumps.

Bustle sought the advice of the Trump organization. Of this amount of nearly $ 90,000, The post office reported that the Trump Tower Condominium Residential Committee was seeking more than $ 64,600 from Brassner for unpaid common charges. A common charge is an amount charged by a condominium to cover expenses related to the maintenance of the apartment, repairs and utilities. According to the complaint examined by The post officeBrassner had defaulted on common charges in June 2015.

The post office reported that Brassner was a "long time" resident of Trump Tower, who had the gift of collecting multi-million dollar artwork as well as vintage instruments. According to the publication, Brassner died as a result of an accidental fire on April 7 after an electric fire fell on the apartment. According to the New York Fire Department, his apartment did not have fire alarms or automatic fire extinguishers.

Trump has always practiced lobbying against the installation of sprinklers in residential buildings – an essential feature that often saves lives. In the late 1990s, when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor of New York, two terrible fires shook the people of the Big Apple. One was held in Brooklyn on December 19, 1998, according to the The New York Times. According to the newspaper, the monstrous explosion required more than 150 first responders to tame the flames that year.

A few days later, however, on December 25, 1998, another fire broke out in the Upper West Side town of Manhattan, killing four people. None of the two buildings had functional sprinklers. The back-to-back fires forced Giuliani, according to The post office, to call for legislation that would require residential complexes to have sprinklers in working order

But Trump at the time objected to such a requirement for financial reasons. according to The post officeTrump argued against modernizing sprinklers in older buildings because of its supposedly expensive cost: $ 4 per square foot.

Shortly after Brassner's untimely death in the fire in April, his friends spoke with The New York Times on the art collector who owned the works of Jack Kerouac and Mati Klarwein, and a portrait of himself created by Andy Warhol, among other big names. His friends said that his health was deteriorating and that it seemed impossible to find a buyer for his apartment, given the security details of the Trump Tower.

Stephen Dwire, one of Brassner's friends, said The temperature"It torments me. [Brassner] says, "It becomes untenable." It was like living in an armed camp. "

"But when people heard that it was a Trump building," Dwire said, "he could not give it away."