NY Dirt: Phones to be searched as judge weighs rent freeze
The search is on for evidence that the decision-making process that led to New York’s rent freeze was fixed. Twenty-six people from City Hall and New York’s Rent Guidelines Board will be asked to turn over their personal and work cell phones and email accounts for search, as part of a lawsuit challenging the rent freeze. The full search could take weeks, pushing the case past Oct. 1, when a rent freeze takes effect. Landlords won’t get to increase rents while the case is being worked out, Judge Brendan Lantry said at a hearing Thursday. “I’m not going to operate […]
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