A resident of Amityville, Long Island claims the town turned his life into a nightmare by allegedly blocking construction on his home because he’s a “loud” Donald Trump supporter, according to a new $1 million lawsuit.
Vincent Franco, 62, says he’s stuck in a real-life horror story, as he and his wife are forced to live in a small part of their old house while the new structure being built around it remains in limbo and open to the elements.
“All the squirrels and raccoons are getting in,” he told The Post. “My wife went to grab something from the attic and a raccoon jumped out and almost bit her.”
The massive and costly home expansion was halted by politicians and residents of Amityville “because they did not want an individual who supported Trump to build such a large house in the neighborhood, or be in the neighborhood at all,” Franco claims in a Brooklyn federal court lawsuit filed last week.
Ever since Franco, a construction contractor, began the renovations in January 2020, he’s been met with repeated dubious obstacles, the suit states.
Residents, for instance, allegedly filed bogus complaints that the size of expansion led them to believe it would be improperly used for commercial storage or a three-family home.
But the complaint was actually a “veiled attempt to discriminate against a Trump supporter who flew Trump flags from his car, in front of the single family construction dwelling,” the lawsuit alleges.
Franco also claimed that the town mayor “openly said...
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