Even in a city filled with bad landlords, Steven Croman stood out. A regular on “worst landlord” lists, his company would buy up Manhattan apartment buildings, then push for tenants in rent-regulated apartments to leave, either by buying out their leases or, tenants said, harassing them until they left. Then, once he deregulated the rent-stabilized apartments, he would charge much higher rents. But this morning Croman was charged with 20 felonies, including grand larceny, falsifying business records, and a scheme to defraud; he faces up to 25 years in prison.
That’s not all the bad news for Croman: The Times reports that the New York state attorney general’s office also sued Croman today, seeking to force him not just to give up his real-estate business, but to pay millions of dollars in restitution to tenants and penalties. In its lawsuit, the attorney general’s office, which investigated Croman for nearly two years, accused him of harassing and coercing “countless working-class and low-income families out of their longtime homes.”
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That's what nyc is all about though.... Greed.
With the standards the city has shown property owners, developers and the treatment and resultant woes for residents in the past 10 years, and the imposition of rampant gentrification, I'm surprised this guy wasn't given the key to the city. Maybe we should change that key to a crowbar.
This is kind of like getting Capone on tax evasion.
This subhuman pile of shit is practically a trailblazer for all other scumbag landlords the city has and currently still enables. With the buyouts, the surgical destruction from illegal renovations and intimidation and bullying tactics. It's basically a higher form of mugging.
The next targets should be this millenial cunt Taleando and Ivanka Trump's weasel husband, whose father went to jail for influence peddling, illegal campaign contributions (sound familiar Blaz) and tax evasion in Jersey and like his candidate father in law, basically inherited the business. These lowlifes are pulling the same shit.
I notice in the NYS Elections Contribution database that Croman has donated to nobody except for one lone state senator's campaign back in 2010. I can't help but wonder if that has something to do with it. This guy was no a small fry in the real estate industry, but he wasn't the biggest fish either.
"Greed is good"
-Gordon Gekko
Obviously did not donate to DiBlasio Campaign for one NY,
If we just bought those 3 senate seats non of this would be happening.
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Good! Now throw him in jail in general pop.
Preety boy is a bought and paid for legal whore.Cuomo and Bloomberg constructively greased his palms long ago, and he persists in going around picking off cheap low-hanging fruit.POS belongs in jail w the rest of em!
Not to be on this guy's side but rent controlled apartments are often a scam, lived in by people making money off the books who could pay more. They weren't meant to be handed down in families for generations. They were for a short term helping hand for when times were tough. Only in NY do they look at it as some sort of RIGHT to have a rent controlled apartment.
They should start means testing and determining who actually lives in a unit.
Remember that old lady in Manhattan who had a rent controlled apartment for $69 or so and the NY Post headline: Rent is $69 and Still She Complains? How about the old bird who rented her apartment out on Airbnb or similar site until the landlord took her to court. One woman with a 4 bedroom on Central Park West?
A scam. Its not the needy getting help.
This douchebag needs some real prison time. Unfortunately, it is unlikely.
Rent control only makes it profitable to be a slum lord. Ladies and Gentlemen the Bronx is burning.
Dick Parsons for Governator
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