CLEVELAND — When a young man from Florida barely old enough to enter a bar began buying up office buildings in downtown Cleveland, many in the real estate industry here were eager to do business with him. Even though Chaim Schochet wasn’t forthcoming about who his financial backers were or the particulars of his employer, Optima, he
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