Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Force behind campaign against Metro’s Purple Line may have a Trump card

Lisa Korbatov’s husband, who once sold the president a home, is appealing to POTUS for help

By Natalie Hoberman | July 09, 2018 05:00PM

In Beverly Hills, an anonymous group that has been petitioning President Trump to stop a planned subway extension beneath their high school may not be so anonymous, after all.

It turns out that Lisa Korbatov, a Beverly Hills resident who is heavily involved in the city’s politics, is spearheading the campaign, and she has a direct connection to Trump, sources said. Her parents, Leonard and Selma Fisch, sold a home to him via an Egyptian pastor and alleged fraudster who appeared to be fronting for a Trump-controlled LLC, The Real Deal has learned. ... And Korbatov’s own husband, Igor Korbatov, brokered the deal.

It all started in 2008, when Korbatov’s parents sold their home on Rodeo Drive to Mokless Girgis, the Egyptian pastor, for $10.3 million. Six weeks after purchasing, Girgis inexplicably transferred the 10,400-square-foot mansion to an LLC named 806 Acquisitions, property records show. The deed was transferred for no money.

That LLC, it was revealed a year later through business registration records, was created by Trump, property records show.
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