A phishing email may have cost one of Manhattan’s luxury landlords nearly $19 million. Milford Entities, which owns and manages upscale buildings including Liberty Luxe and Liberty View in Battery Park City, mistakenly wired the massive sum to cybercriminals posing as the Battery Park City Authority, according to the New York Post. The July incident, now under federal investigation, involved quarterly PILOT and ground-lease payments collected from condo owners — fees that typically pass through building management to the BPCA. The Department of Homeland Security is leading a multi-agency probe. Milford confirmed the fraud in a brief statement, noting the […]

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