Outspoken drug abuser used a $200 receipt and many legal loopholes and false claims of bldg ownership to live rent-free since 2018 in #Moonies #UnificationChurch #MidtownManhattan #NYChotel near #MadisonSqGarden . He claims city treats him like a "nut job" and was ultimately found unfit in court to stand trial and sentenced to "treatment" after extending hotel tenancy for free 5 yr stay.
|https://apnews.com/article/nyc-hotel-free-rent-loophole-case-dd138294f79482f5894fa7a3d7141a5b
Man who used legal loophole to live rent-free for years in NYC hotel found unfit to stand trial
A man charged with fraud for claiming to own a storied Manhattan hotel where he had been living rent-free for years has been found unfit to stand trial. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Wednesday said doctors examining Mickey Barreto deemed he’s not mentally competent to face criminal charges. Judge Cori Weston gave Barreto until Nov. 13. to find suitable inpatient psychiatric care. Barreto's attorney Brian Hutchinson didn’t immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment. But Barreto told The New York Times that he does not have a drug problem and is “not insane."

