NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City landlord has admitted to driving out tenants in a rent regulated apartment building.
State Attorney Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday that Daniel Melamed and the corporation he controlled pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful eviction of rent stabilized tenants.
The Democratic attorney general said Melamed turned off heat and used demolition to try to get rent-regulated tenants to leave a Brooklyn apartment building.
Melamed’s 2015 arrest was the first resulting from the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force, a collaboration between state and city agencies.
An attorney for Melamed had earlier described the unlawful-eviction case as “political grandstanding.”
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