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Michael Cohen accused of faking documents to flip rent-stabilized apartments

Housing group claims Cohen tried to drive out tenants in order to hike rents and lied to get construction permits

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has been accused of filing false documents for three New York City apartment buildings, buying the buildings for $10m and then flipping them for $27m.

According to an investigation by the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI), Cohen and his partners tried to drive out tenants whose rents were kept down by rent stabilization laws so they could hike the rent, the watchdog group said on Monday.

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