Today, in a moment of housing justice for members of Neighbors Together’s Three-Quarter House Tenant Organizing Project, one of the most notorious operators of three-quarter houses was arrested for money laundering and Medicaid fraud charges. From The New York Times:
An operator of flophouses catering to addicts, who was the subject of an investigation last year by The New York Times, was arrested on Wednesday on money laundering and Medicaid fraud charges.
Investigators from the New York State attorney general’s office took the landlord, Yury Baumblit, and his wife, Rimma, who helped him run his business, into custody at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday at their Brooklyn home, a block from Brighton Beach. The couple were arraigned in the afternoon in Kings County Criminal Court on felony charges of second-degree grand larceny, second-degree money laundering and violations of a law prohibiting Medicaid kickbacks.
