The biggest apartment sale of the year is not quite what it seems, the Wall Street Journal reports. Fugitive fraudster Jacob "Kobi" Alexander (currently hiding out in Namibia) sold $40 million worth of Manhattan apartments?including a Park Imperial penthouse for $35.2 million?in one day, records show. But the buyer was an LLC represented by Alexander's lawyer, and court records show that he promised to transfer the apartments to his wife. A call to the broker confirms that Alexander's Park Imperial triplets are still on the market. As you were. [WSJ]
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