Slumlord Joel Israel's JBI Management has been issued a subpoena by the Cuomo administration following allegations that workers sent by the firm to "make repairs" at 98 Linden Street in Bushwick used sledgehammers to trash apartments' kitchens and bathrooms last June. The attacks are believed to be a scheme to boot rent-regulated tenants from their homes. The state Office of Rent Administration has lowered the tenants' rents to $1 a month until the matter is worked out. [NYDN; previously]
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