Argam Aghazarian
Let me introduce myself

Argam Aghazarian

I “own” Unit 801. My uncle is Sako — who issued hundreds of permits a day for $$$ — and it’s not like either of us live here.

If the place begins to shake, pray.

LA County Recorder · public record

How Argam Got the Keys

Four recorded instruments tell the story. Follow the paper.

2017
Grant Deed · Greenland → Zhang / Dong
Instrument No. 20170743476

Greenland LA Metropolis Development I, LLC — the developer — deeds Unit 801 to Zhang Yuqi and Dong Rui, husband and wife. They buy a condominium in downtown Los Angeles from the other side of the Pacific. They have never set foot in the building. They will never live here. They are in China.

2017
Deed of Trust · East West Bank
Instrument No. 20170743477

Same day. Zhang and Dong finance through East West Bank. This loan has never been reconveyed — no recorded satisfaction appears in the county index. The chain of title carries an unresolved encumbrance.

June 24, 2020
Grant Deed · Zhang / Dong → Argam Aghazarian
Instrument No. 20200690103

Argam takes title. Purchase price: $650,000. Not from the MLS. Not from a broker’s listing. From two people in China he has never met, in a country he has never visited, for a unit in a building his uncle inspected. Six months earlier, on November 14, 2019, that uncle — Sako Aghazarian, LADBS inspector — signed the Certificate of Occupancy for this building. Sako performed 1,094 of the 1,604 recorded inspections at 889 S. Francisco. Sixty-eight percent of every inspection. Ninety-seven percent of every “Approved” result on the record. Then his nephew bought in.

June 24, 2020
Deed of Trust · Thrivent Federal Credit Union
Instrument No. 20200690104

Same day. Argam finances through Thrivent FCU — a loan of $487,500. Thrivent Financial is Argam’s own employer; he has been its Market Director since July 2018. He financed the purchase of a condominium — in a building his family member inspected and certified — through the credit union of the company that pays his salary.

The notaries

Every deed needs a notary. Look where these were signed.

U.S. Embassy · Beijing, China
Vice Consul
June 26, 2017

Zhang and Dong sign the East West Bank deed of trust at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. A Vice Consul notarizes. Presidential commissions do not expire. They are in China, signing American mortgage papers for a building in Los Angeles they will never visit.

U.S. Consulate General · Shanghai, China
Vice Consul
June 2020

Three years later. Zhang and Dong sign the grant deed transferring Unit 801 to Argam Aghazarian — at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. They are still in China. They have never been to Los Angeles. They are selling a unit they have never seen to a man they have never met.

Los Angeles County, California
Chu Chang Yeh · Comm. # 2284863
June 22, 2020

Argam signs the Thrivent FCU deed of trust in Los Angeles. Notarized by Chu Chang Yeh, a California notary (commission expires April 11, 2023). Origination Company: Thrivent Federal Credit Union, NMLSR ID 1012971. Originator: Vicki Nyman, NMLSR ID 1682780. His own employer’s credit union. His own colleague.

Beijing. Shanghai. Los Angeles. Three notaries on three continents of paperwork — and not one person in the entire chain has ever lived in Unit 801. Until the tenant moved in.

A city inspector signs off on a building. His nephew buys a unit in it — not from the open market, but from buyers in China who never crossed the Pacific — and finances the purchase through his own employer. The inspector never lived here. The nephew never lived here. The sellers never lived here. Nobody in this chain has ever lived here. The unit becomes a rental. You are the tenant.

Board notice · public record

Your Judas

Oleg Pariser got himself sued. Orange County Superior Court, Case No. 30-2023-01346055. Greenland LA Metropolis Development I, LLC v. Metropolis I Condominium Owners’ Association, et al. Behind the “et al.” are two names. His. And Michael G. Kim’s.

Kim was his recommendation. His friend. On October 25, 2023, Kim recorded fifty-two delinquent-assessment liens against Greenland in a single day. Ninety-two in all. Same owner. Same facts. Same paper, ninety-two times. And billed ninety-two times, at full price — about nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Here is what your president — your Mir Jafar — never told this board. When one lawyer files the same lien ninety-two times, the work is one lien, copied. The customary cut on a multiple-lien action is eighty percent, because the work is the same work. Every California lawyer knows it. Oleg brought Kim in. Oleg saw every bill. He said nothing. He kept his blinders on, because the man collecting was his friend.

Then the money moved. Roughly eleven million dollars in the Orange County matter, and under Section 14.5.2 of the CC&Rs it went to AAA arbitration — confidential by contract, no public docket, no accounting to you.

And who signed the association into that arbitration? Look at the demand. One million nine hundred forty-five thousand five hundred forty dollars. The association’s contact and signatory on that AAA filing: Joshua Cieszynski. The unlicensed manager. The man Oleg swore, under penalty of perjury on February 11, 2026, in Moda v. Aghazarian, LASC No. 25STCV19732, paragraph four, was never authorized to represent the association “for any purpose.” He put the building’s name on an arbitration with no license and no authority, and Oleg let him — because it kept the fees flowing to his friend.

Greenland saw it. On December 18, 2023, Greenland’s lawyer swore that the association used the lien fight to remove Greenland’s seat from this board. Then Greenland sued — and put Oleg’s name on the caption.

Now he comes to you. He wants an audit. He wants the board to sign it. His numbers, your signatures. So that when the question is asked — who approved nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars of duplicate work, who let an unlicensed man sign the building into a confidential arbitration — the answer is: the board did.

That is not an audit. That is a lifeboat with your names on it. He got himself sued for keeping his blinders on. He is asking you to put them on for him.

The confession, in his voice

“I brought Kim in. He was my friend. I knew what ninety-two identical liens should cost — I saw the bills — and I knew what he was billing, and I let it go. I let Josh sign the building into arbitration with no license, because Josh did what I told him and never asked what it cost. Then Greenland put my name on the lawsuit, and I understood what I had done. So I need the board to sign the audit. My numbers. Your names. Because if your names are under them, they are not my numbers anymore.”

The full record · read the dossier
→ The President
Oleg Pariser — in his own signatures, his own timeline, his own words.
The record — nine cards
OCSC No. 30-2023-01346055
Greenland LA Metropolis Development I, LLC v. Met One COA, et al. — Named: Oleg Pariser · Michael G. Kim
Oct. 25, 2023 — 52 liens in one day
92 in all · ~$920,000 · billed 92 times at full price
Customary multiple-lien discount: ~80%
Never disclosed to the board. Board president: Oleg Pariser — your Mir Jafar.
Dec. 18, 2023 — Greenland’s board seat removed
Buchignani Decl. ¶ 5
~$11,000,000 — CC&Rs § 14.5.2
AAA arbitration · confidential · disposition never disclosed
AAA demand — $1,945,540
Signed / contact for the association: Joshua Cieszynski · no DRE license (Exh. L; Exh. K)
Feb. 11, 2026 — Pariser Decl. ¶ 4, LASC 25STCV19732
“Never authorized … for any purpose.”
Discovery Cat. 9 (Kim fee agreement + distribution) · Cat. 11 (defense funding)
Stayed, CCP § 425.16(g)
“Approve the audit”
His numbers. Your signatures.
Federal record · public exhibits

This is your building.

The inspector is on camera. Watch him speak the indictment.

The confession · United States v. Huizar, in the inspector’s own voice

The money. The Olympic-era permits. The sign-off on 889 South Francisco Street. The man on this recording is the LADBS inspector. This is how it worked, in his own words.

The federal RICO case against Los Angeles Councilmember José Huizar is not a story about someone else’s building. It is the paper trail for the same machinery this inspector describes on camera — money moving one direction, Olympic-era downtown-development permits (CF 14-0029, Ordinance 183,498, CF 18-1141-S1, CF 15-0850-S2, AB 1373, EB-5) moving the other. Metropolis Tower I sits inside that pattern: 46 permits at 889 South Francisco Street signed by an LADBS inspector whose family took Unit 801, financed through his own employer. The pattern did not stop with the Huizar convictions. Today, August 31, 2026, a four-day-notice inspection is being carried out at Metropolis Tower I by an inspector Oleg retained and pays. The bribe is not history. It is on this page.

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The paper trail — United States v. José Luis Huizar
Federal RICO complaint. Money for permits. The downtown-development scheme the inspector describes on camera, charged in federal court.
C.D. Cal. · 4.4 MB PDF
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What happens next — an inspector, a Midtown building, buckling
The New York Times: the inspector who signed off on a Midtown Manhattan building now buckling was cited for missing problems at other NYC sites. The arc when a paid inspector signs off is not theoretical.
Archived · 2.7 MB HTML
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Still happening — Notice of Inspection · Aug 31, 2026
Four days’ notice. Delivered August 27. Inspector retained by Oleg. Walking Metropolis Tower I as of today. The confession, in operation.
Building record · 40 KB PDF
Metropolis — 889 South Francisco Street
889 South Francisco Street · Los Angeles

Metropolis

Statement of the Plaintiff — Unit 801

I have lived in Unit 801
for two years.

Kevin Moda, Plaintiff · LASC No. 25STCV19732

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.

II · The Meter

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.

III · The Building

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.

151
Occupancy permits
issued in one day
Three minutes per unit.
Do you feel safe?

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.

IV · What Is Left Unbuilt

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.

And I am still in Unit 801.
Read the filings Full timeline Full statement
Plaintiff's Allegation — LASC No. 25STCV19732
"Pulled away from $17M so I can pocket the money from Green. Moda ended that when he won the Cieszynski anti-SLAPP motion."
Cross-Complaint Amd. ROE 5 & ROE 6 — Filed June 1, 2026 (Dkt. 302–303) — Metropolis I Condominium Owners' Association
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In the plaintiff’s own words — the lockout

“In July 2025, he tried to make me homeless. The officers gave him a choice: either Moda gets back in, or they would arrange room, food, and bedding for him.”

I called the police for assistance. Oleg, Chermenskyh, and the unit owner relented. My personal experience of being subjected to a self-help eviction — that is an experience Oleg will not forget.

Kevin Moda, Plaintiff  ·  Read the full statement →
Notice. This site is maintained by Kevin Moda, plaintiff in this action, to summarize the public record of this litigation. Statements describing the defendants' conduct reflect allegations made in Plaintiff's pleadings and declarations — they are contested claims, not findings by any court, unless a specific ruling is cited. Nothing here is legal advice or a substitute for the official court file.
Orange County Superior Court — Case No. 30-2023-01346055-CU-NP-CJC

The Global Mediation
That Wasn't

Greenland LA Metropolis Development I LLC, et al. v. Metropolis I Condominium Owners' Association, et al.

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This case remains stayed. The arbitration as between Greenland and Met 1 has not been completed. The parties, including Metropolis Master have agreed to attend a mediation session on August 4, 2025 which is intended as a global mediation and would resolve Met 1's claims against Metropolis Master if successful.
Paul W. Windust, Berding & Weil LLP — for Cross-Defendant Metropolis Master Association
Case Management Statement (CM-110), Filed July 10, 2025 — OC Case No. 30-2023-01346055-CU-NP-CJC, ROA #274
Mar. 14, 2025
HOA & Pariser withdraw proposed judgment of dismissal — Moda already circulating $11M records from OC case
OC ROA #272 — Metropolis I COA; Oleg Pariser
Jul. 7, 2025
Moda files suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court — names Cieszynski, Pariser, Metro Property Management, and HOA
LASC No. 25STCV19732
Jul. 10, 2025
Master Association tells OC court the case is stayed and a "global mediation" on August 4 will resolve all claims if successful — three days after Moda files
OC ROA #274 — Paul W. Windust
May 29, 2026
Kim names Greenland US Commercial Holding, Inc. as ROE 7 in cross-complaint — after Cieszynski's anti-SLAPP fails and he refuses to exit the LASC case
OC ROA #304 — Michael G. Kim, APC
III
In the plaintiff’s own words — the meter

Every resident here is billed by a company called AMPS. It submeters each unit, charges residents at the higher consumption tiers, keeps buying power from LADWP at the lower base rate, and pockets the spread — all while sending bills in the name of the original lease holder, not the person using the power.

“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.

Kevin Moda, Plaintiff  ·  Read the full statement →

Case Overview

This action arises from events at 889 Francisco Street, Los Angeles, within the Metropolis I condominium community. Plaintiff Kevin Moda, a tenant of Unit 801, alleges a coordinated campaign of tenant harassment, an unlawful lockout, and privacy violations orchestrated by an unlicensed property manager and HOA personnel who lacked authority to act.

Filed July 8, 2025 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, this case has proceeded through a temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction (granted September 4, 2025), multiple anti-SLAPP motions, judicial-assignment challenges, and cross-claims.

7
Causes of Action
6
Named Defendants

Key Alleged Facts

The following facts are drawn from Plaintiff's pleadings and declarations. They are contested by the defendants.

The Unlicensed Property Manager

Joshua Cieszynski was terminated by Action Property Management, Inc. on February 29, 2024, as confirmed by a sworn declaration from Action's Chief Operating Officer, Matthew Davidson. Cieszynski then formed Metro Property Management, LLC — a single-member LLC categorically incapable of holding a California DRE broker's license — and continued managing the Metropolis I building as if nothing had changed. A DRE license search shows no broker license for either Cieszynski or Metro Property Management, LLC.

The HOA Contract & Pariser's Role

HOA Board President Oleg Pariser executed the property management agreement with Metro Property Management, LLC on February 28, 2024. Plaintiff contends Pariser signed unilaterally, without a board vote or competitive bidding required by the CC&Rs. A forensic review of the contract (Exhibit 1 to the Pariser Declaration) revealed that Page 17 still contained the name "Action Property Management, Inc." in its pricing clause — indicating the contract was plagiarized from a competitor's template. Plaintiff alleges Pariser did not read the contract before signing.

The Fabrication Timeline

On June 2, 2025, staff member Frank Marenco sent an email stating only that he "smelled" an odor in the sauna. Twenty-eight days later, a Three-Day Notice to Quit — drafted by Defendant Aghazarian's counsel — escalated this to a claim that Plaintiff was "witnessed by two people urinating in public," added accusations of voyeurism, and demanded vacation within three days.

The Lockout

On July 2, 2025, Cieszynski issued a "Notice of Decision" revoking Plaintiff's key fobs and all building access. On July 17, 2025, a physical lockout of Unit 801 was executed. The court entered a Temporary Restraining Order on July 24, 2025 and a Preliminary Injunction on September 4, 2025 (Judge Chalfant, Dept. 85), ordering that Plaintiff's access be restored and maintained.

Current Procedural Status

MatterStatus
Preliminary Injunction (access to Unit 801) In Effect Granted Sept. 4, 2025
Anti-SLAPP Motion (Cieszynski & Metro Property Management) Denied June 15, 2026 — Hon. Cherol J. Nellon, Dept. 300
Motion for Summary Adjudication (Cieszynski) Filed
Motion for Summary Adjudication (Pariser) Filed