Subjects
Subject 1
The following is part of an in-progress account of episodes since 2015, if not earlier.
Pioneer Case
by Dr. Gregory L. Scott
NYC has indubitably some of the finest artists, academics, business professionals, engineers, architects and builders in the world, to mention just a few professions. Yet if the experience of the author over the last ten years is representative, too often there are deplorable and dysfunctional if not outright corrupt parts of the legal system. Because of criminal actions by his landlord Hamdi Nezaj and the landlord's clan against many tenants in the 38-unit rent-stabilized building at 83 Park Terrace West in Manhattan, NY, the author has experienced:
long-standing illicit activity by the 34th and in general the NYPD;
rank incompetence in the DA and Criminal Court;
dismaying if not illegal conduct by officials in Housing Court, New York Supreme Court (“NYSC”), the name for Civil Court in NY, and the DHCR, which is the agency responsible for administering rent-regulated apartments in NY and which has judges for trials that could run parallel to, or instead of, the Housing Court.
The primary goal in publicizing some of the author’s history, and offering solutions, is, in the short term, to shame the DA into investigating and at least monitoring, if not prosecuting, the Nezaj clan and, in the long term, to make the NYC legal subculture as fine as the other subcultures, no matter how long it takes, which would be fitting for an allegedly great city. That is, given the history of the Nezajs' illicit actions, sometimes carried out by their agents and ongoing since at least 2015, three of which were reported to the DA in 2016, 2019 and 2024, and the very recent five perjuries in NY Supreme Court, at least three of which seem to be First Degree, punishable by up to 7 years in jail, etc., are the Nezajs and their agents not a Criminal Enterprise according to the NY Penal Code definition?:
https://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article460.php#p460.10
What follows are current and evolving "Topics" as part of this Pioneering Case:
Why is the DA not investigating a seeming Albanian criminal enterprise?
— Or, how easy is it for a clan to gain wealth, power and a foothold in America?
Topic 0
Long list of the crimes, violations and harassments by the Nezaj clan and its agents at Kosova Properties (“Kosova”), 83 Park Terrace West, NY, NY 10034, since 2009.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 1
Two false arrests of Scott, caused by the Nezaj clan
(i) Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj, Shpend aka Joey Nezaj, and Lazer Plumaj, Index #155225/2016, in NY Supreme Court, for False Arrest & Malicious Prosecution.
The explanation and assets highlight not only a false arrest of Dr. Scott by at least one employee of Kosova Properties (“Kosova”), as just established by jury on 6 March 2025, but the importance of the following questions or answers (or both):
How little perjury means in New York Supreme Court (“NYSC”);
How Hamdi’s two recognized perjuries during trial had no impact on the jury’s verdict;
Why Joey’s seemingly three Class D felony perjuries were ignored by the court & jury;
How easy it is, or would be, for a criminal enterprise to track down a juror and induce him or her to influence the deliberations;
Why it took 8+ years to get to trial after the suit was filed;
How Scott’s attorney, for seemingly no good cause and consistent with bribery, helped undercut accountability for the landlord and son, who both pinned all the blame on their immediate employee Lazer Plumaj, a superintendent of the 38-unit building, who was never on the books for almost three years, who disappeared by 2018, who was in official default and who in 2024 apparently was living with a changed name, Lazeer Pllumaj, and fake SSN in an “unregistered” dwelling not far from the other property of the landlord. (See below, Topic 7, for details of this issue.)
Click here to see Summaries, Exhibits and their Explanations
(ii) Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj, Shpend aka Joey Nezaj, and Fatos aka Lucky Nezak, Index #160924/2019, in NY Supreme Court, for False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution and Aggravated Assault
The explanations and assets provide part of the background of the ongoing court case, with Dr. Scott, 68 at the time, alleging that Joey Nezaj, 34, initiated an assault. Scott, who had written on previous occasions that Joey had threatened to kill him, tried to fight back and the bigger Joey immediately knocked him out in the lobby of the building, putting Scott into the emergency room with serious damage. Joey and his brother Lucky told the police they were the landlord and convinced somehow the police to arrest only Scott (but see Topic 2 below). After 9 months of being prosecuted, the DA dropped the charges, and Scott filed suit in civil court.
Joey had an obvious scratch on his face from the keys that Scott was holding when he (Scott) instinctively defended himself, and Joey filed a seemingly frivolous countersuit, claiming that Scott started the violence. As of the date of this writing, Scott and his witness had finished their depositions over two years ago, by summer 2023, and the Nezaj clan have yet to do any of their own depositions.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 2
Corruption at the 34th Precinct and NYPD in general, including the Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB).
Long-going corruption of the 34th since 2011, as shown by photographs, etc.;
The 34th always protecting Kosova against Dr. Scott;
The limited role of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB);
The CCRB substantiating all eleven of Dr. Scott charges against the 34th in 2022, ruling that two officers had lied during the investigation and putting one on internal trial in 2023;
Special protections that (crooked) cops get in New York.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 3
Rank incompetence?, -- and other issues at the District Attorney (“DA”).
First false arrest:
Scott being framed for breaking a window in the one building stairway
Scott’s criminal arrest and an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal;
The odd policy of the police (if honest) and the DA not looking at exculpatory evidence of the target of a prosecution;
The two ADAs—Marissa Carro and Jeff Levinson—reneging on their promise in Nov 2016 to arrest Plumaj or Joey Nezaj or both;
The ADAs relying on the 34th after their promise to arrest the perpetrators;
How the trial finishing in March 2025 showed either the ADAs incompetence or mistake and the ridiculousness of their eventual explanation for not prosecuting Plumaj or Joey Nezaj or both as “it [the false arrest] was a misunderstanding.”
Second false arrest:
Scott allegedly, out of the blue, punching in the lobby the much younger and bigger son of the landlord, who was at the time still an adversary in the first false arrest case
Neither the police nor the DA being willing to look at Scott’s recordings, one of which was going in his pocket when the assault happened;
The difficulty in getting them to look at evidence even after charges were dropped;
The incompetence of, or unwillingness to go against the police by, two other ADAs—Kimberly Grinberg and Kathyrn Taylor, and their ludicrous reasons, captured on Scott’s recordings and emails.
More recent:
The "new" Tenant Protection Unit created in Oct 2022, but the odd policies that do not protect a single tenant brutalized by a landlord.
How the ADAs were thrown off by a devious tenant operating in league with the landlord.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming, including emails and audio recordings of the meetings with the ADAs.
Topic 4
Housing Court and its Dangers for Tenants
The initial hearings in 2015 and 2016 and the postponed trial in Housing Court (“HC”);
the rulings by DHCR in July 2016 giving Scott rent reduction, punishing Kosova;
Scott starting a third case in 2020, being a sitting and caged duck in the landlord’s building as they continued committing crimes against him as the pandemic forced everyone to quarantine, with no ability to travel, much less change one’s residence to escape danger (see Topic 6 below).
Stayed case: 28 charges of Harassment;
The peril of HC (judges selected by lawyers who might appear in front of them), etc;
Harassment charge(s): tenant takes the risk and expense and the fines go to NY State with no guarantee whatsoever lawyer’s fees will be reimbursed even if successful;
How landlords have a great advantage.
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 5
The DHCR and its own Dangers
How DHCR controls rent-regulated apartments;
Advantages and disadvantages of DHCR versus HC;
Variable practices and standards: differences between Coletti’s and Shade’s hearings;
The rigorous study done showing grave problems with DHCR;
Like HC, the landlords and their lawyers have great experience at times and thus solid advantage over a tenant who comes in completely ignorant of the workings of DHCR;
How has the wife, Kelly Borbon, of Joey Nezaj, been allowed to work within the DHCR, gaining potential access to either cases pertaining to the many buildings they own or to individuals working on those cases? Although she is supposedly required to recuse herself, can that reasonably be expected or what mechanism is in place to ensure her lack of interference, direct or indirect, or even her ability to obtain valuable information about the tenants’ plans or strategies or evidence?
Exhibits: URLs forthcoming
Topic 6
Gregory Scott v. Kosova Properties, Hamdi Nezaj et al, Index # LT-301175-20/NY
Approximately 28 charges in Housing Court for Harassment
(date unknown for completion of trial, “stayed” in Jan 2023 until after the NYSC cases are finalized)
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Topic 7
The Gaming of the System and Clients by Lawyers — five cases revealing misconduct by attorneys for the Nezaj clan and even by two of Scott’s attorneys, who, with no good cause and consistent with being bribed, help the clan more than Scott at crucial times
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Topic 8
Miscellaneous: Other Viciousness by the Nezajs, with Hard Evidence
Summary and Exhibits forthcoming
Forthcoming
Forthcoming