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In May 2002, a group in Kiryas Joel that wanted to provide more affordable housing for the community approached the Etzel family about buying their land, said Pinkus Jakobowitz, a member of the group. After they were turned down several times, Jakobowitz said, the group asked Woodbury developer Wayne Corts to serve as their front man – a non-Hasidic buyer who could allay Tyler Etzel Sr.'s concerns about selling to the Hasidic community. Etzel doesn't want his farm to be turned into the densely populated housing characteristic of Kiryas Joel.
Jakobowitz and his two negotiating partners said that Corts enlisted his friend, Ralph Petruzzo, and that together they negotiated a deal in which Petruzzo would buy the property, sell it on to the Kiryas Joel group and receive $1 million to split with Corts.
But then something happened.
Jakobowitz and his partners said that another Kiryas Joel developer learned of the impending sale and intervened.
In the end, they said, the other developer walked off with virtually the same deal they negotiated.
Jakobowitz's group didn't realize Corts and Petruzzo had dropped them until they read about Petruzzo buying the farm in the Times Herald-Record on Tuesday. Even then, they called Petruzzo thinking they had been successful.