Former flophouse owner gets jail time for pushing out tenants in Medicaid scheme
A former owner of Brooklyn three-quarter houses was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison on Wednesday for wrongfully evicting residents and pushing them into unnecessary drug programs for Medicaid kickbacks.
Slapped with three indictments between the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the state Attorney General’s Office, Yury Baumblit stood silent in prison sweats for his Brooklyn Supreme Court sentencing.
The 67-year-old pleaded guilty with his wife on Feb. 14 to wrongfully evicting at least 10 tenants from rooms of the houses, known as transitional or sober houses. They also copped to directing residents to unnecessary drug-abuse programs in exchange for Medicaid kickbacks.