New Yorker Hotel takeover artist pleads guilty to fraud
The man who once claimed to own the New Yorker Hotel has something else in his pocket these days: a conviction. Mickey Barreto pleaded guilty to a fraud charge last week, the Associated Press reported, confessing to forging property records to take ownership of the property at 481 Eighth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The plea deal includes a prison sentence Barreto already served. The wild story started in June 2018, when Barreto booked a room at the hotel for one night before asking the hotel for a lease of the room the following day, in accordance with an obscure […]
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