A lawsuit towards Milwaukee Brewers billionaire proprietor Mark Attanasio claims he is been stealing sand from Malibu’s Broad Seashore and carrying it to his residence for his private use on a building undertaking, in line with paperwork obtained by The Los Angeles Occasions.
The lawsuit was filed by Attanasio’s next-door neighbor James Kohlberg and claims the Brewers proprietor has been utilizing excavators on a public pure useful resource, proscribing public entry to the seaside whereas additionally exposing native marine life to the doubtless hazardous byproducts of heavy equipment, inflicting private and non-private nuisance in addition to violating the California Coastal Act.
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Milwaukee Brewers’ Rhys Hoskins yells towards New York Mets’ Jeff McNeil as benches cleared through the eighth inning of a baseball recreation Friday, March 29, 2024, in New York (AP Picture/Frank Franklin II)
“This case is about a private property owner using a public beach as their own personal sandbox and the disturbing conversion of a public natural resource (i.e., sand from Broad Beach) for a nearby homeowner’s personal, private use,” the lawsuit says.
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The lawsuit additionally says the plaintiff has “suffered personal harm, including having depleted sand next to, and in front of, its own property and has been exposed to gasoline oil on the beach and in the water in front of Plaintiff’s property.”
The plaintiff is asking the courtroom to order the defendant to return all of the sand taken from Broad Seashore, restore any damages, and pay fines.
Mark Attanasio proprietor of the Milwaukee Brewers through the Ryan Braun Stroll of Fame Ceremony at American Household Area on July 28, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (John Fisher/Getty Pictures)
In the meantime, Attanasio’s lawyer Kenneth Ehrlich claims his shopper’s firm has acted in compliance with all of its permits from the town of Malibu and L.A. County. Attanasio claims he’s having a broken part of his residence’s seawall mounted and argues he has all the right permits.
Attanasio initially purchased his Broad Seashore residence for $23 million in 2007 and later purchased the empty lot subsequent door for $6.6 million.
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Attanasio, a Tenafly, New Jersey native, purchased the Brewers in 2005 for $223 million. Below his possession, the staff has made the playoffs seven instances since then, however has by no means superior previous the NLCS into the World Collection. The closest they got here to creating it was in 2018, once they misplaced to the Dodgers within the NLCS in seven video games.
This 12 months, the Brewers are sitting comfortably in first place within the NL at 67-52 and maintain a 7.5-game lead over the second-place St. Louis Cardinals.
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