A disbarred Brooklyn attorney was sentenced to up to seven years in prison Wednesday for stealing properties from Brooklyn homeowners, according to prosecutors.

Defendant Sanford Solny, 68, of Midwood, stole the deeds to 11 residential properties, primarily from minority homeowners who were in financial distress, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. The defendant falsely promised to help facilitate short sales for the owners, but instead transferred ownership of the homes to himself or companies he controlled and collected rent for years.

Solny, whose law license was suspended in 2012 before he was disbarred in 2023, carried out a fraudulent real estate scheme targeting homeowners in foreclosure between 2012 and 2022, according to Gonzalez. He presented himself as a financial e

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