Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
ASSEMBLYMAN Adriano Espaillat (D-Washington Heights) called on Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday to probe possible abuses of rent laws by the Pinnacle Group and other city landlords.
In a letter to Spitzer, Espaillat cited "possible fraud in the actions of building owners to raise rents in vacant rent-stabilized apartments."
He pointed to reports in the Daily News that Pinnacle submitted invoices to the state claiming $47,000 in repairs to a vacant apartment at 706 Riverside Drive, when the company actually spent considerably less. A Pinnacle spokesman has said all the invoices submitted for those repairs were proper.
Juan Gonzalez
In a letter to Spitzer, Espaillat cited "possible fraud in the actions of building owners to raise rents in vacant rent-stabilized apartments."
He pointed to reports in the Daily News that Pinnacle submitted invoices to the state claiming $47,000 in repairs to a vacant apartment at 706 Riverside Drive, when the company actually spent considerably less. A Pinnacle spokesman has said all the invoices submitted for those repairs were proper.
Juan Gonzalez
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