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Fenton also laid out why the park’s owners, Azul Pacifico Inc. — a family-run business that has owned and operated Tahitian Terrace, its principal asset, since 1960 — could struggle to complete the debris removal independently.

But a 2012 two-gallery exhibition in New York, titled “one becomes the other” and presented at Participant Inc. and American Contemporary, redeemed his commitment to art-making.

In his filing, Schleifer said he was fired on the basis of “smears, which originated with and were promoted by Mr. Wiederhorn, his defense team, and that of his codefendant FAT Brands, Inc.”

Brian Hennigan, counsel for Fat Brands Inc., previously told The Times the charges were “unprecedented, unwarranted, unsubstantiated and unjust.”

Novartis AG agreed to buy US biotech Regulus Therapeutics Inc. in a deal that could be valued at up to $1.7 billion.