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Turned down offers to sell
After his mother died in 2007, Kenigsberg told The Washington Post that he inherited the land. He later sold the family home but kept ownership of the adjacent 0.45-acre wooded lot, paying taxes on it year after year while planning to eventually pass it down to his children or grandchildren.
“It’s a very deep part of my life,” Kenigsberg told the outlet. “This was kind of my anchor to Connecticut.”
According to the outlet, he even turned down several offers to sell. Then one phone call changed everything.
The Long Island doctor said he was speaking with a childhood friend who still lived in Fairfield when the conversation took an unexpected turn.
Childhood friend delivered shocking news
The friend casually mentioned that construction was taking place on the property.
“They’re doing what? I said, ‘I own that and I never sold it,’” Kenigsberg told CT Insider. “I was shocked.”
The comment was so alarming that Kenigsberg drove to the property that same day, his first visit in about five years.
The scene waiting for him was almost impossible to believe. Instead of the familiar wooded lot he remembered, a 4,000-square-foot home – listed for $1,475,000 – was rising from the land.
“I was living my life normally until May 31st,” Kenigsberg told The Washington Post, “and all of a sudden, this happened.”
As Kenigsberg searched for answers, he uncovered what court documents described as an elaborate fraud scheme.