Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 8: The New Yorker Hotel is illuminated as seen from the EdgeNYC observation deck at Hudson Yards as the ...

The man who once claimed to own the New Yorker Hotel has something else in his pocket these days: a conviction. Mickey Barreto pleaded guilty to a fraud charge last week, the Associated Press reported ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man who attempted to claim ownership of the New Yorker Hotel has pleaded guilty to fraud, ending a lengthy legal saga involving an obscure tenant law that allowed the ...

FILE - The New Yorker Hotel, center, is seen in New York, Nov. 8, 2013. A man who succeeded in using a New York City housing law to live rent-free in the iconic hotel has been charged with fraud after ...