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A conflict between the reconstituted board of the Little Rock housing authority and an affiliated nonprofit escalated on Wednesday when the housing authoritys board voted to act aggressively to gain control of the nonprofits assets and accounts.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cara Connors heard arguments and witness testimony on Tuesday in a lawsuit over the ouster of two Little Rock housing commissioners.

An attorney for a development nonprofit affiliated with the Little Rock public housing authority has filed a motion to intervene in litigation filed against the city and Mayor Frank Scott Jr. by two housing commissioners whom the Little Rock Board of Directors ousted in September.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cara Connors on Tuesday left in place her preliminary injunction barring the city of Little Rock from replacing two Little Rock housing commissioners who were ousted from the five-seat board.

The reconstituted board of commissioners of the Little Rock public housing authority on Wednesday voted to expel the board members of an affiliated development nonprofit known as the Central Arkansas Housing Corporation.

During the special-called meeting of the housing authoritys board on Wednesday, Wright was joined by two new commissioners, Karen Buchanan and Bruce James. City board members confirmed Buchanan and James to the five-seat panel on Oct. 17, replacing Branndii Peterson and Louis Jackson.

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Jean-Pierre Conte, the chairman and managing director of the private equity firm Genstar Capital, recently filed a counterclaim suit against his former girlfriend, who alleges Conte assaulted her in their shared Aspen home.

With two Little Rock housing commissioners ousted as of Tuesday and two others set to exit, four new faces are expected to join the five-seat board of the citys public housing authority in the near future.

The Little Rock Board of Directors on Tuesday voted to remove two members of the panel that oversees the citys public housing authority after extensive financial and management problems were identified by federal regulators.