A Fort Lauderdale senior home under fire for removing all of its residents to convert into luxury apartments is now accused of fabricating evidence in a Broward County court case about the controversial evictions.
Oasis Living Quarters said in an emergency motion last week that it provided residents with a written notice in January informing them that they would have 45 days to leave, well before they were forced out in March. The motion included a copy of the alleged notice as evidence, along with an affidavit from an employee saying she knocked on residents’ doors and personally handed it to them.
But the attorney representing one of Oasis’ residents said in a motion Tuesday that such a notice not only never existed but was created after the fact “solely to defraud the court,” pointing to affidavits from several residents and family members, a state inspection report, and video footage of the chaotic March meeting where residents said Oasis’ administrator first informed them they would have to leave…