Mickey Barreto, 48, allegedly filed paperwork between May 2019 and September 2023 claiming ownership of the entire landmark New York hotel and tried to charge another tenant rent, according to a ...

Mickey Barreto, 48, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 14 felony charges of offering a false instrument for filing and 10 counts of criminal contempt in a failed plot to take over the New Yorker ...

Then he claimed to own the building Mickey Barreto, 48, who exploited a housing law to live rent-free in Manhattan’s New Yorker Hotel, has been charged with fraud after claiming to own the building.

Manhattan prosecutors allege Mickey Barreto lived rent-free in the New Yorker Hotel for five years. He went too far by claiming ownership, they said.

In June 2018, Barreto and his partner, Matthew Hannan, stayed in room 2565 at the New Yorker hotel for one night and paid $200.57. Armed with knowledge of New York City's Rent Stabilization Code ...

Prosecutors said Mickey Barreto went too far when he filed paperwork claiming ownership of the entire New Yorker Hotel building — and tried to charge another tenant rent.

Barreto says he had just moved to New York from Los Angeles when his boyfriend told him about a loophole that allows occupants of single rooms in buildings constructed before 1969 to demand a six ...

Barreto’s indictment on fraud and criminal contempt charges is just the latest chapter in the years-long legal saga that began when he and his boyfriend paid about $200 to rent one of the more ...

Manhattan prosecutors acknowledge that the housing court gave Barreto “possession” of his room. But they say he didn’t stop there: In 2019, he uploaded a fake deed to a city website, purporting to ...