Mitchell Shpelfogel

Mitchell Shpelfogel works as an attorney specializing in real-estate law. He also sits on Community Board 15’s Public Safety, Zoning and Community Affairs committees. He is also the son of Brooklyn developer Sam Shpelfogel, who in 2005 was forced to step down from the board of directors for the Brighton Neighborhood Association after the Daily News revealed he had failed to fix more than 400 maintenance violations at one of his Brighton Beach properties. The city also sued Sam Shpelfogel twice between 2004 and 2008 for having more than 1,000 violations at his properties. The city settled after he fixed them, according to the Daily News. The Shpelfogels became embroiled in another scandal in 2008 when the Daily News reported that a Brooklyn judge hired then 22-year-old Mitchell right out of law school, before he had even passed the bar exam, after the judge received an $80,000 loan from Mitchel’s brother. The coveted position payed $63,000 a year.