The estranged husband of Lara Prychodko, the Manhattan woman who fell to her death in a garbage chute in a Union Square high-rise last week, declared bankruptcy after his high-end construction firm was targeted in two multi-million dollar lawsuits, The Post has learned.
David Schlachet, 55, and his partners in Taocon, Inc. filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 16, 2016, a day after billionaire financier Joseph Bae accused them of running a multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme with money that they should have been using to renovate Baes $20 million Upper East Side town house, court papers say.
Taocon was contracted in October 2013 to conduct extensive renovations on the 45 E. 65th St. property owned by Bae and his wife through a limited liab…
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