The Docket

Meriel Marina Bay was sold as waterfront luxury: two five-story buildings, 352 apartments on 5.8 acres of Quincy shoreline at 550–552 Victory Road, developed by Hines, managed by the Bozzuto Group, and substantially finished in the spring of 2018. By the first winter, water was getting in. According to the tenants’ class-action complaint, by the fall of 2020 the owner knew that water intrusion through the buildings’ exteriors had bred mold — and kept marketing and leasing the apartments as luxury homes without disclosing it.

The owner quietly sued its own builder and architect over the construction defects in late 2021 (2182CV01044). Tenants say they learned about the mold the hard way. In May 2023 a group of them, led by Dany Abouelkhier, filed a class action against Marina Bay Residences LLC, Bozzuto Management, and the property’s general manager (2382CV00389). That summer The Patriot Ledger and WHDH’s 7 Investigates told the tenants’ stories — among them Sandra Fernandez, whose son developed rashes and who found mold inside her walls and under her carpets after management denied anything was wrong — and a public-records request turned up 82 pages of sanitary-code complaints to Quincy’s health department. Management told 7News there were “no widespread mold issues”; after Boston.com picked up the suit that December, it began offering tenants lease-breaks in exchange for non-disclosure agreements and a release of all liability.

What began as one lawsuit is now a sprawl. Tenants took the management company to housing court one by one. The class action changed lead plaintiffs in March 2025 after the original one fell out with class counsel, and that rupture spawned satellite suits of its own — the severed individual claims (2582CV00364), a case against the former lawyers (2583CV00969), a case against the project’s architect (2577CV01253), and more. This site follows the whole saga: every docket checked three times each weekday, translated into plain English, with the filed papers attached.

This is one long-running dispute about apartment conditions in Quincy that split into a dozen court cases, plus a second front in Braintree, with two people — Sandra Fernandez (also filing as Sandra Frommer and Sandra Fernandez De Villavicencio) and Dany Abouelkhier — appearing again and again, almost always pro se.

The root of it is a building. In the class action (2382CV00389), Beth Materna sued Marina Bay Residences, LLC, Bozzuto Management Co., and Bozzuto’s general manager Delaney Barrett over “Meriel Marina Bay,” a 352-unit luxury development in the Marina Bay section of Quincy. The Fourth Amended Complaint alleges the buildings suffered “serious repeated water intrusions” and “widespread leaks” from 2018 on, causing structural damage and microbial mold, and that a two-plus-year re-cladding project from November 2022 to late 2024 turned the property into a construction site.

That complaint quotes the landlord’s own words from an earlier case — and that earlier case is in this group. Marina Bay Residences sued its builder and architect, Callahan, Inc. and Cube 3 Studio, LLC, in 2021 (2182CV01044), alleging “defective and/or deficient work.” So the landlord’s construction-defect suit became the tenants’ evidence: the class complaint bolds those quotes as “party admissions” from 2182CV01044.

The class case pleads breach of lease, breach of the warranty of habitability, c. 186 §14 quiet enjoyment, negligent and intentional misrepresentation, nuisance, c. 186 §18 retaliation, and c. 93A — including allegations that Barrett denied mold when prospective tenants asked, that balconies were locked after a 93A demand letter, and that calls with residents were secretly recorded (2382CV00389).

Fernandez’s own paper trail matches those allegations. In the 2024 eviction Marina Bay Residences brought against her and Abouelkhier at 550 Victory Road (24H82SP01628), she filed an affidavit and a stack of exhibits: emails to Quincy health officials (Marli Caslli, Helen Murphy, Stephen Cobble) complaining inspectors called visible mold “just DUST,” a Bozzuto reply insisting “nothing observed... requires remediation,” a Meriel email saying “We do not have any reports of mold,” and a legislative aide to Rep. Bruce Ayers discussing a possible mold-standards bill. Her affidavit says her minor son Kenzo had severe health issues from mold and that she was retaliated against for advocating. That eviction settled by Agreement of the Parties on 8/6/2024.

Fernandez and Abouelkhier then tried to get inside both Marina Bay cases. In the construction case they filed motions to intervene, ex parte TRO motions, and insurance-disclosure demands (2182CV01044, 07/31/2025). Fernandez’s August 2025 “Notice of Misconduct” there quotes defense attorney Mark Bodner’s email to some 35 lawyers saying “I hate dealing with whack a doodle pro se people,” and asks the court to strike Cube 3’s opposition and refer Bodner to the Board of Bar Overseers (2182CV01044).

Judge Connolly’s response in the class action is the pivot point of the whole story. She severed Abouelkhier, Fernandez, and minor K.F. into their own case, 2582CV00364, and later explained why on the record: “it started when Abouelkhier had a falling out with Class Action counsel and subsequently the Appellant and Abouelkhier obstructed the progress of that case by filing dozens and dozens of frivolous Motions,” and severance “preserved” their rights — but “They declined” (2382CV00389, 04/02/2026). Their party status in the class case was marked inactive (2382CV00389, 11/20/2025).

The severed case then died of the very refusal the court described. Marina Bay moved to dismiss for failure to prosecute; on 2/10/2026 the court allowed it, noting these plaintiffs “refuse to participate” and had objected to severance, and entered judgment for defendants on all claims (2582CV00364). All three filed notices of appeal the same week, then a wave of Rule 60(b) motions to vacate — including K.F.’s motion arguing the judgment was void as to a minor (2582CV00364, 03/19/2026 and 03/25/2026). Post-judgment, Marina Bay is now chasing Rule 69 enforcement discovery from Abouelkhier, which the court largely allowed on 6/12/2026 (2582CV00364).

A parallel appellate pattern runs alongside: repeated attempts to get transcripts at state expense, all denied. Judge Connolly denied the request twice, noting there was no evidentiary hearing and the record contains all rulings (2382CV00389, 03/03/2026 and 04/02/2026), and the Appeals Court and SJC turned away related motions (2382CV00389, 12/22/2025 entries).

Fernandez also sued the class action’s own lawyers. In Plymouth County she sued Keches Law Group, P.C. and Jonathan D. Sweet, Esq. — the very counsel for Materna in 2382CV00389 (2583CV00969). They moved for judgment on the pleadings; she obtained a continuance on 6/3/2026 saying she was outside Massachusetts undergoing medical treatment (2583CV00969).

And she sued the architect directly. In Essex County, K.F. (Kenzo Fernandez), by his mother, sued Cube 3 Studio, LLC — the same architect Marina Bay sued in 2182CV01044 — for personal injury-type claims plus 93A (2577CV01253). Judge McCarthy-Neyman allowed a last-minute continuance of the July 9, 2026 hearing based on a Madrid physician’s letter, but pointedly noted the letter was two weeks old and the delay “caused a waste of judicial resources” (2577CV01253).

Meanwhile the same two people moved to Braintree, and a nearly identical fight restarted with a new landlord. Lenox Farms Limited Partnership (with UDR, Inc., UDR NYL Deals GP LLC, and manager Erika Merritt) brought a summary process case at 550 Liberty Street, Unit 905 against Mohamed Kassem and Abouelkhier (24H82SP03575). Abouelkhier’s April 2026 “Notice of Material Record Conditions” says the sole stated ground for termination was the presence of “an unauthorized individual, specifically Sandra Frommer” — while the record shows management accepted her September 2024 check, called the unit “your home,” and coordinated with her weekly. He also points to Braintree Board of Health Emergency Orders from December 2024, May 12, 2025, and May 21, 2025 affecting habitability, and to a “Month-to-Month Premium” of $1,500 in the ledger (24H82SP03575).

That eviction produced findings on 4/15/2026, and on 5/5/2026 the rent and counterclaim pieces were transferred to a new civil docket, 26H82CV00143. Abouelkhier promptly moved there for “clarification of operative pleadings,” arguing the transferred docket doesn’t identify what claims transferred, what pleading controls, or what he must answer — and asking that nothing adverse happen until the court defines the case (26H82CV00143).

Lenox Farms also filed two January 2026 injunction cases, one against each of them. Against Frommer (26H82CV00012), Judge Sherring on 3/17/2026 enjoined her from entering or residing at Unit 905; a single justice (Hershfang, J.) denied her stay petition on 3/30/2026. Lenox Farms then filed a contempt complaint, served by Constable Belisle after three failed in-hand attempts (26H82CV00012, 05/29/2026 return of service). At the 7/14/2026 show cause hearing the court found service proper and denied eight of her motions outright — because she failed to appear.

Against Abouelkhier (26H82CV00011), the court on 6/12/2026 ordered him to vacate Unit 905 within 10 days or face judgment for possession. He appealed, moved to dissolve the injunction, and on 7/24/2026 filed a limited emergency motion to continue the July 28 hearing — supported by a sworn affidavit that he must fly to Cairo from July 26 to August 19 to care for his elderly mother after his stepfather’s death, and expressly asking that his absence not be treated as abandonment (26H82CV00011). Notably, he cites the court’s own prior denial of a continuance for lack of documentation, and says this filing “cures” that.

Frommer’s mirror-image case against the Braintree landlord (26H82CV00041) was filed in Suffolk Superior Court as 2584CV03086, then transferred to Housing Court on 2/13/2026. She fought the transfer, and her March 2026 emergency motion argues the Housing Court docket “does not reflect that posture on its face” while the related injunction case had already advanced to a preliminary injunction over the same premises. On 6/25/2026 Judge Theophilis denied her continuance and denied all her pending motions for failure to prosecute — again because she did not appear.

Two more Suffolk cases tie the same cast together commercially. Abouelkhier sued Virtual Fulfillment Center, LLC, Mohamed Kassem, and others (2484CV02931), drawing counterclaims he repeatedly sought extensions to answer and moved to strike and dismiss; the court denied his motions to dismiss and to disqualify opposing counsel on 2/3/2026. And Frommer sued La Casa Zone LLC and Mohamed Kassem “individually and as manager” (2584CV02961) — the same Kassem who is the co-defendant on the Braintree lease. There she won an unopposed motion to compel discovery and insurance disclosure on 3/9/2026, after complaining defendants produced nothing.

The pattern the record supports, stated plainly: two pro se litigants pursue mold and habitability claims across at least seven courts, generate very large volumes of motions, repeatedly seek emergency continuances (some allowed, some denied), and repeatedly have motions denied for non-appearance or failure to prosecute — while the underlying substantive allegations about water intrusion and mold at Meriel Marina Bay are being litigated in the class action by counsel who they themselves later sued.

One inference worth flagging: it looks like the sequence of severance (2382CV00389) → dismissal for failure to prosecute (2582CV00364) → post-judgment enforcement is what pushed the fight into new forums — the Keches malpractice-style suit (2583CV00969), the direct suit against Cube 3 (2577CV01253), and the Braintree litigation. The record does not state that motive; it only shows the timing.