Blood Money: How New York’s Slumlords Profit from Poisoning Children

The Predators Among Us

They walk among us in expensive suits, drive luxury cars, and live in pristine homes far from the toxic hellholes they rent to families. They are New York’s slumlords—a parasitic class of property owners who have turned child poisoning into a profitable business model. While innocent children suffer irreversible brain damage from lead exposure, these predators count their blood money and sleep soundly in their lead-free mansions.

This is not hyperbole. This is not an exaggeration. This is the documented, undeniable reality of how some of New York’s most despicable landlords have systematically poisoned hundreds of children while enriching themselves through deliberate negligence and criminal indifference to human suffering.

The Hall of Shame: New York’s Most Notorious Child Poisoners

Lilmor Management: The $6.5 Million Child Poisoner

At the top of this rogues’ gallery sits Lilmor Management, officially designated as one of New York City’s “worst landlords” and rightfully so. This corporate poison peddler has achieved the distinction of being responsible for over 100 children testing positive for elevated lead levels in their blood. Let that number sink in: over 100 innocent children, their futures stolen, their potential diminished, their lives forever altered by corporate greed.

The New York Attorney General’s investigation revealed a pattern of deliberate negligence so egregious it borders on criminal conspiracy. Lilmor Management:

•Repeatedly failed to determine if children under six lived in their apartments

•Refused to conduct legally required annual inspections

•Ignored mandatory lead paint hazard assessments between tenancies

•Deceived prospective tenants about the toxic conditions in their properties

With over 30,175 Housing Maintenance Code violations across their portfolio—an average of 500 violations per building—Lilmor Management has turned child endangerment into an art form. They currently maintain over 880 open violations, each one representing a potential death sentence for the children forced to live in their toxic properties.

The Raiszadeh Group: Buffalo’s Child Poisoning Empire

In Buffalo, Farhad Raiszadeh and his associated companies have built their real estate empire on the broken dreams and damaged brains of children. Between 2017 and 2025, this predatory operation poisoned 14 children with lead while accumulating hundreds of violations from city and county inspectors.

The statistics are damning: 75 percent of the 78 properties owned and managed by the Raiszadeh Group were cited for conditions conducive to lead poisoning. This is not accidental negligence—this is systematic child abuse disguised as property management. For over a decade, Raiszadeh ignored persistent warnings and citations, choosing profit over the lives and futures of the children in his care.

The Business Model of Child Destruction

These slumlords have perfected a business model that would make organized crime bosses blush. The formula is simple and devastatingly effective:

Step 1: Target the Vulnerable

Purchase properties in low-income neighborhoods where families have limited housing options and little political power. Focus on communities of color, where systemic racism ensures that violations will be overlooked and enforcement will be minimal.

Step 2: Maximize Profit Through Negligence

Refuse to invest in lead abatement or proper maintenance. Ignore peeling paint, deteriorating surfaces, and obvious hazards. Every dollar not spent on child safety is a dollar that goes directly into their pockets.

Step 3: Exploit Legal Loopholes

Use the complex web of housing regulations to delay, deflect, and deny responsibility. Hire lawyers to fight violations while children continue to be poisoned. Treat fines as a cost of doing business rather than a deterrent.

Step 4: Deceive and Conceal

Lie to prospective tenants about known hazards. Provide false disclosure forms. Hide inspection reports. Create a facade of habitability while knowingly renting toxic death traps to families with young children.

The True Cost of Slumlord Greed

While these predators count their profits, the children they have poisoned face a lifetime of consequences:

•Permanent brain damage that cannot be reversed

•Reduced IQ that limits educational and career opportunities

•Learning disabilities that require expensive special education services

•Behavioral problems that strain family relationships and social development

•Attention deficits that make academic success nearly impossible

The economic impact on families is catastrophic. Parents must navigate complex special education systems, pay for expensive therapies, and watch their children struggle with challenges that could have been entirely prevented if their landlords had simply followed the law.

The Enablers: A System Designed to Fail

These slumlords do not operate in a vacuum. They are enabled by a system that treats child poisoning as a minor regulatory infraction rather than the serious crime it represents. Consider the pathetic penalties:

•Lilmor Management poisoned over 100 children and paid $6.5 million—roughly $65,000 per poisoned child

•The Raiszadeh Group poisoned 14 children and paid $515,000—roughly $37,000 per poisoned child

These amounts are pocket change for property owners who generate millions in rental income. They represent the cost of doing business, not meaningful deterrents to future child poisoning.

The Repeat Offender Problem

Perhaps most infuriating is the pattern of repeat offenses. The same landlords appear again and again in violation reports, court cases, and news stories. They pay their fines, make minimal improvements, and then return to their child-poisoning business model.

William D’Angelo in Syracuse accumulated 336 violations at 22 properties, resulting in the poisoning of at least 15 children. Despite repeated warnings and legal action, he continued operating until finally being shut down by the Attorney General.

The system allows these predators to treat children’s lives as acceptable losses in their pursuit of profit. Each violation, each poisoned child, each damaged brain is simply the cost of maximizing rental income while minimizing maintenance expenses.

The Geographic Targeting of Vulnerable Communities

The pattern of where these slumlords operate reveals the calculated nature of their predatory behavior. They deliberately target:

•Low-income neighborhoods where families have few housing alternatives

•Communities of color where enforcement is historically weaker

•Areas with older housing stock where lead paint is more prevalent

•Neighborhoods with limited political power where violations are less likely to generate public outrage

This is environmental racism in its most naked form—the deliberate poisoning of minority children for profit.

The Inadequate Response: Why the System Fails Children

The current regulatory framework treats child poisoning as a civil matter rather than the criminal enterprise it represents. While these slumlords systematically poison children, they face:

•Minimal fines that are easily absorbed as business expenses

•Delayed enforcement that allows continued poisoning during lengthy legal proceedings

•Weak penalties that fail to deter future violations

•Limited oversight that allows repeat offenders to continue operating

Meanwhile, the children they poison face:

•Lifetime disabilities that cannot be cured or reversed

•Educational challenges that limit their future opportunities

•Health problems that require ongoing medical care

•Economic disadvantages that perpetuate cycles of poverty

The Moral Bankruptcy of Lead Poisoning Profiteers

What kind of person knowingly poisons children for money? What level of moral bankruptcy allows someone to collect rent checks while watching toddlers eat lead paint chips in their properties? These are not accidental oversights or unfortunate mistakes—these are deliberate business decisions made by individuals who have chosen profit over the lives and futures of innocent children.

The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable:

•Lilmor Management knew children lived in their properties but refused to conduct required inspections

•The Raiszadeh Group received hundreds of violations over more than a decade but continued operating

•William D’Angelo accumulated 336 violations while poisoning 15 children

These are not the actions of negligent property owners—these are the calculated decisions of predators who view children’s lives as acceptable collateral damage in their pursuit of wealth.

The Enablers: Lawyers, Managers, and Accomplices

These slumlords do not operate alone. They are supported by an ecosystem of enablers who profit from child poisoning:

•Property management companies that implement policies of deliberate negligence

•Lawyers who help delay enforcement and minimize penalties

•Contractors who perform cosmetic repairs while ignoring underlying lead hazards

•Real estate agents who market toxic properties to unsuspecting families

Each of these accomplices shares moral responsibility for the children who are poisoned as a result of their participation in this predatory system.

The Path Forward: Treating Child Poisoning as the Crime It Is

The time for treating lead poisoning as a regulatory matter has passed. When landlords systematically poison children for profit, they are committing crimes against humanity that demand criminal prosecution, not civil penalties.

Immediate Actions Needed:

• Criminal Prosecution of landlords who knowingly expose children to lead hazards
• Asset Forfeiture of properties used in child poisoning operations
• Personal Liability for property owners, managers, and corporate officers
• Mandatory Prison Sentences for repeat offenders
• Lifetime Bans from property ownership for convicted child poisoners

The Victims Deserve Justice

Behind every statistic is a child whose life has been forever altered by the greed and callousness of slumlords. These children deserve more than monetary settlements—they deserve justice. They deserve to see the people who poisoned them held accountable not just financially, but criminally.

The parents who trusted these landlords to provide safe housing deserve to see justice served. The communities that have been systematically poisoned deserve to see their children’s lives valued more than corporate profits.

Conclusion: No More Excuses, No More Delays

The evidence is clear, the pattern is established, and the moral imperative is undeniable. New York’s slumlords have turned child poisoning into a profitable business model, and the current system of civil penalties and regulatory enforcement has utterly failed to protect innocent children.

It is time to treat these predators as what they are: criminals who systematically poison children for money. It is time to demand criminal prosecution, asset forfeiture, and prison sentences for those who choose profit over the lives and futures of innocent children.

The children of New York deserve better than a system that treats their poisoning as a cost of doing business. They deserve justice, accountability, and a future free from the toxic legacy of slumlord greed.

The time for half-measures and civil penalties has passed. The time for criminal justice has arrived.