Two foreclosure actions face former Nelson Poynter estate, Tampa Bay’s classiest ‘party house’
Two friends are facing off in court over a defaulted loan secured by an old estate of the late St. Petersburg Times owner Nelson Poynter, once valued at nearly $10 million. Fazal Abbas Fazlin is a 66-year-old engineer and a native of Pakistan. In 2008, a New York Times column by Roger Cohen profiled Fazlin, a millionaire entrepreneur, Muslim, Republican and Richard Nixon fan who backed Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. In 1999, Fazlin and then-wife Christina Marie Fazlin…
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