A man charged with fraud for claiming to own a storied Manhattan hotel where he had been living rent-free for years has been found unfit to stand trial, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Finally, we convinced him to go seek treatment,’” Barreto told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
They say he forged a deed to the New Yorker Hotel purporting to transfer ownership of the entire building to him.
Because I’m not being treated as a criminal but I’m treated like a nutjob,” Barreto told the AP.
But the New Yorker closed as a hotel in 1972 and was used for years for church purposes before part of the building reopened as a hotel in 1994.
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Manhattan, Madison