Second Arrest Made for Brooklyn Wall Collapse
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Officials made a second arrest yesterday in connection with a fatal wall collapse in Brooklyn.
An engineer, Abraham Hertzberg, is accused of forging the certification of excavation plans he submitted to the city in 2006. The documents pertained to a construction site on Glenmore Avenue where a cave-in killed a worker in March.
Mr. Hertzberg’s indictment follows the arrest last week of the site’s owner, who has been charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and reckless endangerment. Mr. Hertzberg faces nine counts of filing false documents. According to the indictment, Mr. Hertzberg forged the stamp and signature of another engineer who had supposedly certified the plans.
In a press release, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Investigation, Rose Gill Hearn, said, “DOI will continue to work with our law enforcement partners and the Buildings Department to root out professionals whose word cannot be relied on in matters affecting public safety.”
