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...tenant group's claims are based on a series of letters from Walsh to clients, in which he advises a landlord on converting a rent-controlled apartment to condominiums and urges a tenant facing eviction proceedings to leave...
That happened before Walsh was elected, CTU members acknowledge, but some subsequent legal action surrounding the sister's unit did not. Cynthia Cox, the sister, refused to buy the condominium; subsequently, the landlord increased her rent...
When she would not pay the increased rent because the landlord had violated certain physical code requirements Walsh sent her a letter which CTU members interpreted as a warning notice...
...tirade continued for another minute while I patiently took it all in. Better not stop her, I thought, she might get the landlord to rent my room to John Kenneth Galbraith. When I changed my wash soon after, I threw every bit of lint in the trash--you never know what teenage social ill she would attribute lint to. If I lived in a house, any house, I wouldn't have to defend beer parties and loud music to an octogenarian...
According to testimony by family members last night, landlord Patrick J. Sullivan tried to sell several apartments in 1985. His attorney, Walsh, who began his freshman term on the City Council that year, told him that one of the apartments' tenants, Cynthia A. Cox, and her brother wanted to buy two of the units. But according to a letter from Walsh to Cox, these plans deteriorated to a point where a deal could not be made...