Billionaire CEO Left 36 Kids in 15° Winter - Told Judge "Society Needs ME, Not Low-Income Tenants"

Описание: In my 43 years as a judge, I never imagined a billionaire real estate developer would deliberately shut off heat, electricity, and water to an entire apartment building at 2:30 AM on a 15-DEGREE winter night - endangering 104 people including 36 CHILDREN - then tell me during sentencing: "Society NEEDS people like ME. These tenants contribute NOTHING. I employ 400 people. I build things. I create economic value. You can't put ME in prison over some low-income tenants who were barely paying rent. I'm the one who MATTERS." Robert Sinclair, 51-year-old CEO of Sinclair Properties worth $3.2 BILLION, purchased an apartment building at 847 Broad Street housing 42 working-class families. He wanted them GONE so he could demolish the building and construct luxury condos selling for $500,000 each. But tenants had rent-controlled leases - legal protection he couldn't break. So Sinclair decided to FREEZE THEM OUT. At 2:30 AM on a night when temperatures hit 15 degrees, security cameras caught Sinclair personally entering the building, going to the basement, and DELIBERATELY SABOTAGING the heating, electrical, and water systems. 104 people - including 36 children and elderly residents in their 70s and 80s - woke up in FREEZING DARKNESS. Maria Santos, single mother working TWO JOBS, woke to her 6-year-old daughter Sofia crying "Mommy I'm so cold, am I going to die?" Four elderly residents hospitalized for hypothermia. Mrs. Chen, 81 with heart condition, had cardiac episode. Two children including Sofia treated for dangerous cold exposure. During sentencing, little Sofia testified holding her blanket: "I was really cold that night. I thought I was going to die. Why did you make it so cold? Didn't you know kids lived there?" Then Sinclair told me society needs billionaire developers like him, not working-class families who "contribute nothing." This is my story of how I gave him 57 YEARS and proved a single mom working 60-hour weeks has more value than a CEO who'd freeze children for profit.