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A Brooklyn businessman may have flushed away his future when he connected sink and toilet pipes in three Greenpoint buildings directly into the Newtown Creek, prosecutors charged yesterday.

Jose Torres, 53, of Queens, was released on $10,000 bail following his arraignment on a slew of pollution-control violations, but faces up to $2 million in fines and up to four years in prison.

Prosecutors said Torres had his commercial buildings, 251, 257 and 259 N. Henry St., hooked up so that the sewage was piped out into the storm-drain system, which flows directly into the creek.

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