{"id":51,"date":"2004-12-01T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/the_danger_of_rent_control.html"},"modified":"2004-12-01T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T22:22:12","slug":"the_danger_of_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/the_danger_of_r.html","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Rent Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If true, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/20988.htm\">this case<\/a> could &#8212; no, will &#8212; be used to reform the rent control laws:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Queens landlord accused of plotting to kill two brothers living in a rent-controlled apartment told cops he struck a deal with another tenant to try to scare the pair into moving, according to a videotaped statement presented in court yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He [the tenant] offered me to take out [remove] the people in the apartment,&#8221; the landlord, Juan Basagoitia, says on the videotape. &#8220;[The tenant] needed some money to go to Canada with his girlfriend. He never told me how it was going to get done. . . . He was going to scare them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tenant and an accomplice sneaked into the apartment in March 2003 and attacked the brothers with hook knives, leaving them with scars on their faces and hands.<\/p>\n<p>Defense lawyer Stewart Orden said his client didn&#8217;t know the two would try to kill the brothers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true, this case could &#8212; no, will &#8212; be used to reform the rent control laws: A Queens landlord accused of plotting to kill two brothers living in a rent-controlled apartment told cops he struck a deal with another tenant to try to scare the pair into moving, according to a videotaped statement presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}