The building on 178th Street in the Bronx where six firefighters were forced to leap from a fourth-floor window. Two died. Prosecutors unsuccessfully charged tenants and owners for illegally partitioning the apartment in which the men became trapped.
Prosecuting property owners for alleged negligence linked to fatal fires is hard to do, experts say. It’s only regularly attempted in high-profile cases involving firefighter victims.
The Bronx activist group had targeted landlords and lenders before. This time, however, they were rewarded with a million-dollar lawsuit and a court order to leave the owner alone.
Two people associated with a notorious portfolio of troubled Bronx buildings took guilty pleas after a welfare fraud investigation involving fake eviction cases.
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