Judge Ruth Pickholz sentenced Anya Johnston to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday following Johnston’s second-degree murder conviction for the 2018 stabbing of her neighbor, Susan Trott. Johnston’s five years of pre-trial confinement on Rikers Island will count toward the 20-year minimum she must serve before becoming eligible for parole.
New York City’s “worst landlord” let loose horrors — including a ceiling that collapsed onto a child — on rent-regulated tenants to harass them into moving out so he could sell buildings for tidy profits, authorities said.
On Thursday, Nickolous Charles, 21; Brianna Moreno, 20; Alejandrina Ventura, 24; and Wilson-Mariano Ventura, 23, walked into a Manhattan courtroom, facing a slew of criminal charges.
New York City’s so-called “worst landlord” was indicted on Thursday for allegedly harassing his rent-regulated tenants by deliberately leaving their apartments in “horrific living conditions” in an attempt to force them to vacate, prosecutors said.
A notorious New York City landlord has been charged with harassment and other crimes for allegedly forcing his tenants to live in unbearable conditions just so he could turn a big profit, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg announced Wednesday.
