- David Sans managed to blag a $722-a-month ‘affordable’ apartment in West Side
- He filled out his tax forms and said he only earned $24,000 a year in the city
- But in truth, he was on $238,000 a year and his fraud was spotted by the owners
- A court has ruled he should be evicted from his apartment in the Ohm tower
A stockbroker has failed in his bid to hold on to his New York apartment after he was caught lying about his six-figure salary.
David Sans managed to blag a $722-a-month ‘affordable’ pad in a luxury tower in the city’s West Side by filling out tax forms to say he was on $24,000 a year.
In truth, he was earned $238,000, and he has now been kicked out of his apartment in the Ohm tower after losing his legal battle.
The Ohm tower, where David Sans was staying in an ‘affordable’ apartment despite his six-figure salary
The building’s owners Douglaston Development sued Sans and Judge Jack Stoller told Manhattan Housing Court they could evict the stockbroker, according to the New York Daily News.
Ohm was given a massive tax break in exchange for making 20 per cent of its apartments ‘affordable’.
Sans signed up for one of these flats by massively under-reporting his income.
Douglaston clocked the potential fraud last year and reported their tenant and the courts agreed with their judgement.
In his summing up, Judge Stoller said Sans’ ‘sizable under-reporting of his income implicates his eligibility to be a tenant in the subject premises and constitutes a material misrepresentation’.