$7million New York Apartment Used for Poker, Parties and Prostitution – PokerTube

09:2508 Jan

Letting out a New York apartment has gone from being a lucrative investment opportunity to a complete nightmare for one man after he discovered it was being used for illegal poker games, sex trafficking, prostitution and parties...

Mitch Spaiser bought the $6.9million Murray Hill townhouse back in 2012 and rented it out as two apartments, for up to $16,000 a month, but that turned sour in late November 2020.

According to court documents, the impressive East 36th Street brownstone became a noisy and tawdry members only club after Spaisers original tenant, Patricia Taub, sublet her 3,0000 square foot, 5-bedroom unit within the building.

Complaints soon poured in, with the NYPD receiving 14 complaints about loud music from November 2020 to March of 2021.

One complaint to the Department of Buildings in December 2020 read:

Social media posts show a poker table taking pride of place in one room, with a $1000 minimum buy-in poker game being run by a man known as BigBodyYatti.

That would appear to be the nickname for Kenyatti Adams, who is alleged in legal documents to have strongarmed his way into the property, which Taub had sublet to Ashley Jurman.

Court papers allege:

The New York Post has shared videos of the premises, with one displaying a naked man and a purported prostitute breaking into the upstairs penthouse apartment rented by Shan Haider.

I complained so many times, Haider stated, revealing that the parties would sometimes only start at 4am.

The owner of the townhouse, Spaiser, has claimed his life was made hell because of the squatters and their illegal activities.

Adams, who admits to playing poker in the apartment but refutes any allegations of illegality, has said he has been unable to pay the rent due to hardship caused by Covid-19.

That brought an angry response from Spaisers lawyer, Victor Feraru, who stated:

The court case continues.

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