{"id":13592,"date":"2013-04-24T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2013-04-24T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:40:27","slug":"rebel-cause-rent-regulated-tenants-feel-left-out-of-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13592","title":{"rendered":"Rebel cause: Rent-regulated tenants feel left out of settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major settlement between rent-regulated tenants and a large New York City landlord may be at risk after some of the tenants complained that they were not eligible for millions of dollars in compensation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oops. The major landlord is the Pinnacle Group and the lawsuit was “originally brought over allegations of illegal rents and harassment.”<\/p>\n

It’s one of those intriguing stories<\/a> because you can’t really be sure what happened. Except, of course, that the Pinnacle Group was accused of behaving badly and given that they had a large number of elderly, rent-regulated tenants, you can pretty well figure that they did behave badly. If tenants’ advocacy groups were against Pinnacle, I know what side I’m going to be on.<\/p>\n

Although the reasons why the carefully negotiated settlement is in danger of collapse does have complexity, the Times’ Mireya Navarro tells it in a straight-forward easy to understand way.<\/p>\n

The tenants’ original lawyer is Richard Levy. The rebel tenants have just hired a new attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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