The head of a Brooklyn real estate firm who profited from the city’s homelessness crisis pled guilty to a federal fraud charge this week.
Rivera pled guilty to charges related to the bribery and kickback scheme in February 2022. He’s currently serving up to 27 months in prison.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Levin, 60, paid Rivera nearly $700,000 to rent out a Bronx shelter building owned by her company, the Times reported. She received hundreds of thousands of dollars in return between May 2019 and January 2021, according to court documents.The city’s Department of Investigation partnered with federal prosecutors on the case.
DOI Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber said Levin’s “unscrupulous real estate company owner resorted to bribes and kickbacks to become the landlord of choice for a taxpayer-funded nonprofit that provides vital homeless shelter services.”Levin’s attorney Michael Farkas said Friday that the case was more complicated than prosecutors presented. He said he would be making an “exhaustive presentation to the judge” at Levin’s July sentencing.
“This is not a simple case of someone paying bribes to get business the way it has been characterized,” Farkas said.Donate today and receive our new Gothamist rat tote.
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