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Show GOTHAM FINDS H REAL 'RENT HOG' Dummy Companies Used in Extracting More From Helpless Tenants NEW YORK Jan. 21 Ten landlord; land-lord; reported by a court clerk us responsible re-sponsible for throe-fourths of the sooo litigations over rent increases in the Harlem and Washington Heights section of Manhattan, were subject of Investigation Friday by the Lock-wood Lock-wood legislative committee jiii EH ED OW NCI! One of them. Joseph Schenck. testified testi-fied he had bought between three and four hundred apartment houses during dur-ing the last five years, but had never built one He denied having Instituted Insti-tuted 2000 rent cases as the committee com-mittee was told by the clerk of tho Seventh district court. He said the number was 360. Mr Schenck admitted that after leasing an apartment house under his own name, ho formed a compain, composed only of himself, to sublease It, In order to avoid fulfilling an agreement to let the owner know how much rent certain tenants paid. BOOSTS AM, AROINT) He said his Schenck Realty and Construction company sold 60 apartment apart-ment houses for 8, 000. 000 to another an-other company In which he wns heavily heav-ily Interested and that rents of half the tenants then were boosted Mr. Schenck admitted trying to raise a tenant's rent from $62.50 to $110 a month soon after buying a house wherein the previous owner only a short while before had obtained ob-tained 26 per cent Increases on all apartments. oo |