The rent is too damn high, and two New York Democrats are trying to fight back.

First, New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Michael Lohan Jr.—brother of actor Lindsay Lohan—alongside his business partners at Peak Capital Advisors for allegedly deregulating 159 rent-stabilized housing units across 31 buildings through illegal means.

“It is no secret that New York City is already battling an affordable housing crisis, and yet Peak and its operators still chose to line their own pockets at New Yorkers’ expense,” James said in a statement from Dec. 1. “Let this lawsuit be a warning: When corporate developers and bad landlords try to cheat housing laws, my office will always take aggressive action to stop them.”

According to James, the law says landlords can end rent stabilizatio

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