The father of a Manhattan woman whose body was found at the underside of a garbage chute at her Union Square constructing claims in court documents that her husband ordered her killed.
For the second time, Nicholas Prychodko from Canada sued David Schlachet’s son-in-law for the death of his daughter Lara on July 10, 2018.
It was initially believed that 48-year-old Lara Prychodko fell drunk from 27 floors in the luxurious Zeckendorf Towers on account of health problems and a controversial breakup with Schlachet.
Authorities ruled her death an accident, but Nicholas Prychodko disagreed and hired former New York health worker Dr. Michael Baden to look at his daughter’s stays.
Baden concluded that the woman “may need died of lethal ligature strangulation and was then placed in a garbage chute,” based on a letter the famous forensic pathologist wrote to the family.
Schlachet hired a hitman to perform the dirty deed, Nicholas Prychodko claimed in a 2021 bombshell Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit he filed against his son-in-law in February 2021.
The family’s financial adviser, Lance Meyerowich, joined the lawsuit as plaintiff.
The couple also claimed that Schlachet installed software on her laptop to trace her movements.
The head of a construction company can have lost as much as half of his £6m assets after divorcing Lara, her father claimed, because the couple battled over common property, including two houses in Southampton, an apartment in Chelsea, a penthouse in Williamsburg and an attic in Toronto.
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Schlachet’s attorneys objected to the 2021 lawsuit, arguing that neither Nicholas nor Lance Meyer had the legal authority to sue.
The judge agreed, dismissing the case in July 2021.
But on April 6, a judge in Manhattan’s substitute court gave Prychodko and Meyerowich limited authority to represent her estate and act as custodians of the estate of Lara’s 17-year-old son.
On Tuesday, the couple sued Schlachet and the killer, whom they identified only as “John Doe,” in Manhattan Superior Court again on Tuesday, repeating their claims that Schlachet “was financially motivated to kill Lara Prychodko.”
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Despite the fact that Schlachet has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners, operators and managers of the Zeckendorf Towers – where disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner once lived – this criticism doesn’t address how Lara “could open the garbage chute, push through its tiny opening and dive by parachute – all by accident,” Prychodko noted in court records.
The recent lawsuit alleges unspecified damages and the disqualification of Schlachet because the beneficiary of Lara Prychodko’s estate.
Schlachet’s lawyer didn’t reply to a message searching for comment.