Original sentence: Although it was illegal to sell the units publicly without first filing a full-disclosure prospectus with the New York State Attorney General, Maciunas ignored the legal requirements, beginning a series of increasingly bizarre run-ins with the Attorney General of New York.Maciunas began wearing disguises and going out only at night.Maciunas continued the co-op despite contravening planning laws, buying a series of loft buildings to sell to artists as working and living spaces
Edited sentence: Although it was illegal to sell the units publicly without first filing a full-disclosure prospectus with the New York State Attorney General, Maciunas never bothered with prospectus requirements.Although the AG's legal efforts were relatively mild, Maciunas acted as if he were public enemy #1, wearing disguises and going out only at night.And although he made no attempt to enrich himself, his style was rather that of a con man, and he made a lot of his buyers angry with him because of the low-quality conversion work.He sold lofts for only a few thousand dollars, and hired artists to do the (sometimes shoddy) carpentry, electrical and plumbing work necessary to make them livable.Maciunas bought a series of loft buildings and made them into co-operatives, selling the lofts to artists as working and living spaces.Maciunas continued the co-op despite contravening planning laws.More than a few artists felt he had duped them into buying their lofts, even though they had literally bought them at cost.There began a series of increasingly bizarre run-ins with the Attorney General of New York.Those "duped" artists' lofts came to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as SoHo developed, and eventually even millions