NY Post
August 25, 2015
A woman whose Queens home was allegedly stolen by a scheming squatter says her nightmare never would have happened if bone-headed city bureaucrats hadn’t given him a fraudulent deed — and now she wants the city to pay up, court papers show.
Jennifer Merin, 71, is seeking nearly $600,000 for the debacle, including the $400,000 in property that ex-con Darrell Beatty stole from her family home while living there, her Manhattan Supreme Court suit says.
“[The city] was negligent in the way in which they allowed the deed to be registered,” a bitter Merin told The Post on Friday. “There was no indication that any of those signatures were related to my family or the property.”