NYC squatter who refuses to leave couple’s $2M dream mansion is ‘wonderful’ man who cares for infant son on ventilator: friend
NY Post
A woman claiming to be “close” to the Queens squatter who has refused to leave a couple’s $2 million dream mansion they purchased to live in with their disabled son insists the deadbeat is actually a “wonderful” man who is caring for his own ailing child.
The woman, who said she is “very close” to the squatter, Brett Flores, explained that the hanger-on is caring for his sickly infant in the luxe Douglaston manse purchased by retired couple Susana and Joseph Landa in October — from which he has refused to depart.
“The lungs did not inflate at birth. He’s on a ventilator,” she told The Post of Flores’ child, echoing claims by the squatter’s lawyer, Dennis J. O’Sullivan.
The woman, who declined to confirm whether she was the squatter’s relative or friend, said the child’s mother is married to Flores and that they are living together, but refused to clarify whether the couple were slumming it as a family in the Shore Road haven.
“I couldn’t tell you where they are living,” she said of the child and its mother.
Other neighbors who spoke to the Post said they haven’t seen a baby or a woman in the house, and that Flores hasn’t been around much since the prior owner died.