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Posted on 04/24/2025 7:03:12 AM PDT by george76
New York Attorney General Letitia James, champion of the poor and wretched, is now facing criticism for her conduct as a landlord.
Records from the New York City Department of Buildings and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) indicate a troubling pattern of neglect at her five-unit apartment building at 296 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.
In the past 20 months alone, there have been 17 complaints against James with the New York City Department of Buildings.
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These include unauthorized construction work without proper permits, the alteration of a load-bearing wall without permits, illegal use of apartments as hotel rooms, illegal conversion, a fence over the height limit, and a failure to notify authorities of scaffold work.
More alarming still, all four of Letitia James’s tenants are listed as having bedbug infestations and re-infestations.
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Additionally, two tenants have recently complained of peeling paint. These are both clear violations of housing maintenance codes designed to safeguard tenant health.
Bedbugs and peeling paint in residential settings pose serious health and safety risks to tenants.
Bedbugs are parasitic insects that feed on human blood, often at night, leaving behind itchy welts, allergic reactions, and excessive scratching.
Infestations can spread quickly through walls, floors, and shared spaces, causing widespread discomfort, anxiety, and sleep disruption.
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Peeling paint, especially in older buildings, presents another danger – particularly if it contains lead, which is common in buildings like James’s which were constructed before 1978.
Lead-based paint can flake or create dust that, when ingested or inhaled, is toxic – especially to young children and pregnant women.
Together, these hazards reflect a failure by Letitia James to maintain safe and healthy living conditions and can indicate landlord negligence or even systemic housing code violations.
These conditions paint a picture of James not so much as a landlord, but as a slumlord – a landlord who shirks basic responsibilities while residents suffer in substandard living environments.
Slumlords are known to neglect the maintenance and safety of their rental properties, often to maximize profit at the expense of tenants’ health and well-being. Slumlords are often associated with exploiting low-income or vulnerable tenants who may have limited housing options or fear retaliation if they complain.
On February 18, 2025, James posted on Twitter, “All New Yorkers deserve fair, stable housing, and I will always take on landlords who try to evade our laws for their own financial gain”.
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An atrocious, racist, hypocritical scumbag of a human being.
Typical Democrat.
She apparently eats well
When are they going to indict this ghettopotamus?
She needs to be disbarred & treated like any other law breaker. Can’t have lawyers breaking the law.
No extra charge for the bedbugs.
I am wholly in agreement!
I still want to know if she is reporting the income from that fifth “stealth” apartment on her taxes!
We are probably paying for her real estate with our taxes, section 8 and illegal housing.
James and Baby Soros are quite the destroyers of their own socialist empires this week.
She is a POS
But When will she get arrested?
If the address is searched, all the sources do mention that it is a four-unit., e.g.,
https://streeteasy.com/building/296-lafayette-avenue-brooklyn
Al Gore did this. He had a rental house in Carthage TN with peeling lead paint and a sewer pipe going straight to a river.
The press wouldn’t report it in 2000. Only a local paper.
He also used more electricity in a month at his mansion in Nashville than most people in a year. He claimed it was because he used it as his office with staff and didn’t have one.
He lied. He rented an office in the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel/Office building. I deposited his rent checks.
Did Letitia invite in any illegals?
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