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  • New York City landlord convicted of hiring hit men to beat tenants of rent-controlled apartment

    12/08/2004 6:36:43 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 28 replies · 1,215+ views
    WBAY ^ | Dec 8, 2004
    NEW YORK A New York landlord has been found guilty of hiring hit men to force two brothers out of their rent-controlled apartment so he could more than triple the rent. The landlord was found guilty yesterday of first-degree attempted murder and assault, conspiracy and burglary. Prosecutors said he wanted to oust the two from their three-bedroom apartment in Queens so he could raise the rent from 400 dollars a-month to 15-hundred dollars. They say he hired two tenants of the building to attack the men. The brothers survived but suffered disfiguring injuries. The landlord's attorney argued he hired the...