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eowners did not respond to a request
for comment.
Residents suffering through the
drought have also turned to the city
seeking relief, saying its outrageous
for offi cials to allow one obstinate homeowner
to deprive them of one of
life’s essential ingredients.
“DEP should responsible for this.
This line has been there for 100 years,”
Mirza said.
But a DEP spokesman claimed
that the agency isn’t responsible for
the repair because the leak is on a private
line that all the bungalows’ owners
collectively own, meaning that
they’re responsible for making the
fi x.
Now, homeowners are making
do by buying packs of bottled
water every day or fi lling up garbage
cans with water from nearby
hydrants, Mirza said. One homeowner
and her parents, brothers,
and his family, were forced to move
from their two-family house in
Brighton Beach to her other brother’s
apartment.
“We literally cried,” said Salina
Bhuiyan. “I can’t take it anymore.”
She added that the price of the
fi xes are beyond her budget — and the
budget of many of the bungalows’ lowincome,
immigrant residents.
“I’m under so much debt already,”
she said.
helping applicants forge documents
to obtain the coveted apartments in
exchange for steep bribes totaling
$874,000, which the women allegedly
spent on luxury goods.
On Thursday, Gonzalez slammed
the three defendants for the scam that
ultimately robbed deserving low-income
families of affordable housing,
claiming some applicants have been
waiting for an apartment at the Mitchell
Lama since the early 90s.
“Their alleged actions deprived
honest, law-abiding home seekers
a chance to obtain affordable housing,
so we will now seek to bring
these defendants to justice for their
respective roles in this alleged corrupt
scheme,” he said.
Two of the defendants — age 40
and 71 — allegedly conspired to illegally
transfer an apartment by providing
a fake letter, marriage and
birth certificates, and bank records
between 2015 and 2016 to prove
that the 71-year-old tenant was the
mother of the younger suspect.
The third defendant, 64, provided
similar fake documentation
to prove that he had resided in another
unit for over a year and that
he was the brother of the apartment’s
Authorities arrested three suspects for an alleged scheme to get housing at the coveted
Mitchell-Lama apartments. Google Maps
previous tenant.
On Oct. 16, Brooklyn Criminal
Court Judge Michael Yavinsky arraigned
the suspects and charged
them with multiple counts of second
degree criminal possession of
a forged instrument, first-degree
offering a false instrument for filing,
first-degree falsifying business
records and one count of second-degree
making an apparently sworn
false statement. The defendants
were released on bail, and will return
to court in December.
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