"Discrimination Is Alive & Well In America Today" Says NY AG After Bagging Two Brooklyn Landlords In Undercover Race-Bias Rental Sting

In Brooklyn, New York, the New York Post reports:

• Two Brooklyn landlords were nabbed in an undercover sting after they brazenly told black apartment hunters that no suitable units were available, while rolling out the red carpet for potential white tenants, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged [].

• Investigators posing as would-be renters discovered that rental agents at two Ocean Parkway buildings routinely showed apartments to white applicants while telling black applicants none were available, according to court documents. In at least two cases, two sets of black would-be tenants were blatantly turned away from the 71-unit housing complex at 1648-50 Ocean Parkway hours before a white couple was invited to apply.

• "Discrimination is alive and well in America today," Cuomo said at news conference to announce the action.

For more, see Bias scamlords (Lied to blacks: Cuomo).

For the NY AG press release, see Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Joined By Lawmakers, Announces Lawsuits Against Landlords For Race Discrimination After Undercover Investigation (Landlords in Brooklyn and the Capital District Denied Access to Apartments to Black Applicants; Cuomo also Reaches Agreement with a Second Brooklyn Landlord as Part of Ongoing Investigation).

For the lawsuits, see:

• People v. Socha Management, Inc.,
• People v. Golden Touch Management,
• In re: 1750 Associates - Assurance Of Discontinuance (landlord clipped for $40,000 in damages in settlement of NY AG's allegations).