A physics professor at a Lehigh Valley university has been sentenced to five days in jail and fined more than $30,000 after a judge found him guilty of not having an occupancy permit and failing to fix a blighted, vacant building he owns.
Alvin Kanofsky, a physicist at Lehigh University, declined comment after his hearing Wednesday in Northampton County.
"Nothing at this point," he said while chuckling to The (Allentown) Morning Call.
The Morning Call reports Kanofsky bought the three-story building in Bethlehem in the 1980s and used to house a flea market there. But code officials say Kanofsky hasn't fixed the roof, which is threatening to collapse along with the building, despite previous citations, warnings and threats of jail.
Kanofsky has until Monday to appeal the ruling or go to jail. He's appealed similar rulings in the past without fixing the building.
