Two years in this building. A secret HOA proceeding with no notice. A lockout in July 2025 that ended only when police gave the board president a choice. Then my attorneys ran the building itself through a fraud matrix.
A couple of months in, I started noticing the HOA doing things that didn’t sit right. It didn’t take long before Oleg Pariser — the HOA President — and Joshua Cieszynski created what I can only call a star chamber: a secret proceeding, no notice to me, where they convicted me of wrongs I would never commit. Vile things. Painful to me.
So I sued. Oleg Pariser, the unit owner, the building manager, and the management company — all of them, for what they had done.
I am particularly fond of Oleg. In July 2025, he tried to make me homeless. He had my access revoked and would not let me back into the building. I called the police for assistance.
“Either Moda gets back in, or we arrange room, food, and bedding for you tonight.” Responding officers to Oleg Pariser — July 2025
Oleg, Chermenskyh, and the unit owner relented. I was allowed back in. My personal experience of being subjected to a self-help eviction — that is an experience Oleg will not forget.
A court saw the bigger picture. In 2025 I was awarded a Preliminary Injunction, and since that order came down I have not paid so much as my electricity bill here — and there is a reason for that too.
Every resident in this building gets billed by a company called AMPS. What AMPS does is straightforward: it submeters each unit, charges residents at the higher consumption tiers, then keeps buying power from LADWP at the lower base rate and pockets the spread. On top of that, they were sending the bills in the name of the original lease holder — not the person actually living there and using the power. California law requires that utility bills be issued in the name of the person actually consuming the service.
I wrote to Ms. Ho, the owner of AMPS — a company built to sell building owners submeters they never needed and then profit off the margin. My message was simple:
“Send me one bill with my name on it. Just one.”
That was the last I heard from any of them. No bill. No AMPS. No Ho.
Then the unit owner sued me. That brought in my attorneys — people who saw what was happening and showed up. What they found went well beyond broken appliances and a hostile HOA president.
They ran this building through what I would call a fraud matrix — a pattern analysis of the ownership, the financing, the construction, all of it. What emerged was this: this building was never built for human habitation. It was built as an EB-5 fraud scheme. The original buyers of Unit 801 signed their purchase documents at the same moment they applied at the U.S. Embassy — the deed of trust was notarized there. They were never in this country. They never saw this place.
In 2020, Mr. Aghazarian — the current title holder of the unit — purchased it, with financing flowing through something called Thrivadent, a union financial facility that exists largely on paper. His uncle, Sako Aghazarian, had been the special inspector assigned by LADBS to this building.
The bribe was the unit itself. That is when the FBI got involved. The head of LADBS received prison time. The council member who participated in the corruption received a fourteen-year sentence and remains in prison today. Sako is no longer with LADBS. More on all of that later.
You see the pool. It is heated. But no one can use it between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. — that is illegal. The pool and jacuzzi are both uncovered, and neither can legally be used as they stand. That violates the California Health and Safety Code sections governing residential pool access and enclosure requirements.
And for those of you who own units here: you are exposed to a clawback of the property tax reductions you received when this building was handed green building certification. Fake certification. Imagine the penalties when that unravels.
This site exists because the public record matters. What happened to me in Unit 801 did not happen in a vacuum. It happened inside a building conceived in fraud, permitted by corruption, and managed by people who believed no one was paying close enough attention.
I was. I am.
Every document on this site is real. Every allegation is supported by a filing, a declaration, a court order, or a public record. The case is LASC No. 25STCV19732 — look it up. The docket is public and so is everything in it.