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    BRIEFS

    Jul 01, 2019 6 minutes
    By James M. Odato
    By James M. Odato

    Debts cloud resort plan

    The developers of the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort at Big Tupper were successfully sued by their attorneys and must pay their legal team $9 million, according to court papers.

    The case against Preserve Associates LLC, also known as Tupper Lake Preserve LLC, reveals the unpaid bills for legal services and discloses that the lawyers say the charges are justified in part because the controversial project has increased in value to more than $200 million by the developers’ own appraisal.

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    Preserve Associates has been pursued by their team of attorneys for payment on legal work done over 12 years of their relationship.

    Winning the judgment is the large Albany firm Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna. The firm is owed more than $8.2 million by the ownership team led by Michael D. Foxman. Foxman, a lawyer from Pennsylvania, has been trying to build what has been billed

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