ELGHEUR
Alias on lease.
OUTRAGE: Bajia Elmourabit and her children are facing eviction by her jailed ex-husband from their apartment on Ocean Parkway (bottom). (
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A heartless Scrooge wants to give his ex-wife a lump of coal for Christmas — by booting her and their kids from a rent-stabilized Brooklyn apartment.
Convicted drug dealer Ahmed Elgheur is currently locked up and facing deportation for immigration fraud.
But before he gets tossed back to Morocco, he is trying to get ex-wife Bajia Elmourabit evicted from her $1,140-a-month, three-bedroom home so his young girlfriend can move in.
Elgheur, 47, used an alias to sign the lease on the Ocean Parkway pad almost 20 years ago.
He and Elmourabit had two children — a son, now 19, and a daughter, 17 — before he abandoned the family after being busted for selling heroin and jumping bail.
Elgheur eventually surrendered and served more than six years in prison for two federal drug raps.
Meanwhile, Elmourabit, 47, raised the kids on her own and made a living running a since-closed Moroccan restaurant on Prospect Park West.
She renewed the lease every two years, signing her own name at the bottom, and paying the rent on her own for 17 years without any child support.
But her ex-husband’s alias — “Gerome Mancini” — stayed at the top of the rental agreement.
Elmourabit’s housing nightmare began last year, when she got an eviction notice from “Mancini.”
Elmourabit, who also has a 10-month-old son with another man, said her first reaction was: “Is he crazy? There’s no way he can throw us out.”
But when she went to Housing Court, her ex-hubby’s lawyer, Michael Cheatham, argued that the couple was never legally married — despite signed, Islamic wedding documents — and that Elmourabit was simply Elgheur’s “subtenant.”
“It’s not her apartment. That’s his alias,” Cheatham told The Post. “The lease is not in her name.”
Housing Court Judge Bruce Scheckowitz refused to recognize the religious marriage and issued an order saying Elmourabit would be evicted — unless she could get Family Court to say otherwise.
Elmourabit said that she couldn’t get a Family Court judge to take the case and that when she went back to Housing Court, Scheckowitz upheld his ruling.
Elmourabit’s lawyer, Jalila Bell, accused the judge of “passing the buck” and “not listening to the law.”
Elmourabit is now mounting a last-ditch appeal, arguing that a father can’t evict his children and that their 19-year-old son should inherit the lease.
Scheckowitz is scheduled to consider the case today.
Meanwhile, Elgehur’s girlfriend, Cindy Comoli, 27, allegedly sent Elmourabit a text offering to drop the eviction proceedings in exchange for cash.
“His legal fees for his attorney paid (I don’t know the amount) and $20k for the apartment paid in one full payment and it is yours,” the message read.
Comoli denied sending the text and accused Elmourabit of demanding $150,000 to leave voluntarily.
Additional reporting by Josh Saul and Mitchel Maddux