Feds: Fake NYC Landlord Put Families in Unlivable Homes, Evicted Them in 8-Year Scheme

That complaint estimates Fishbein defrauded the three city agencies out of about $1.5 million, including more than $270,000 in federal funds. In addition to taking payments, Fishbein allegedly faked using a broker to rent out the properties and kept certain broker's fees for himself that the HRA issued as payment. Most of the properties he claimed to own were uninhabitable, according to the complaint. And Fishbein often evicted families shortly after they moved in, it says.
“This defendant’s alleged conduct wove a web of lies that allowed him to illegally profit from government programs meant to help those in desperate need of housing, and he further exploited them by providing squalid apartments in properties he did not rightly own, often evicting them shortly after they moved in, according to the charges," New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett said in a statement Tuesday. "Homeless New Yorkers, and others in critical need of housing, not only have a need but a right to homes that are clean, safe, and secure, especially when they are offered through public assistance programs."

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