Three tenants arrested in Luna Park housing bribery scheme
Three tenants involved in a housing scheme at an affordable housing complex in Coney Island were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly forging their way into obtaining coveted real estate, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced.
The defendants are tenants at Luna Park: Leonid Dakhe, 64, Tatyana Langman, 71, and Sabina Berkovich, 40. They were arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court before Judge Michael Yavinsky on Wednesday, according to court records.
The trio face multiple charges, including counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, first-degree falsifying business records and one count of second-degree making an apparently sworn false statement, according to court records.
Dakhe, Langman and Berkovich were arrested as part of the long-term investigation into a bribery scheme announced earlier this year involving three of the affordable housing complex’s board members, who allegedly accepted bribes to fudge the co-op’s highly coveted waitlist.