NYC Man Spent $200 for a Five-Year Stay at the New Yorker Hotel

Obviously trying to cut through NYT's regurgitation of legal details is fraught with problems, but I'm guessing the original court order just basically meant he could move back into the room, pending the hashing out of a formal lease conforming to the Rent Stabilization Act or further legal action. But Barreto (supposedly) took it to mean more than that, and parlayed the order into filing a fraudulent deed which then took much time to clear up.

Taking the narrative at face value, it seems like the root of Barreto's mistaken reasoning was thinking that "possession" means ownership. Then it snowballed when thinking that NYC's refusal to record a deed for a single room entitled him to draft a deed for the whole premises, combined with a fundamental misunderstanding of the semantics of deeds (just because you're able to get something recorded does not mean it conveys ownership).

Crazy story. Looks like he could have got away with a lot, had he not pushed it.

> Shinzo Abe's alleged killer

At this point isn't the identity of the killer a certainty? Or does the NYTimes wait for the trial to be over?

Does New York have a functioning justice system? This is insane for this nonsense to go on.

This type of shit makes you wonder about all the other crazy legalities that exist out there that nobody takes advantage of.