The 234 Apartment

Johnson Chrome was a notorious big spender with a taste for bottle service , bespoke suits and $10,000 shoes. The source of his wealth? A sophisticated identity theft scheme that may have conned Torontonians out of millions. The untold story of the city’s most wanted fraudster Photographs: All portraits via Facebook; background by iStock T he fraudster who called himself Johnson Chrome liked to sit on a bench at the intersection of Hazelton and Yorkville, smoking a Montecristo Edmundo robusto and talking about fashion, cars and cigars to anyone who’d listen. He was charming and handsome, with a neatly trimmed beard , a shaved head and perfect teeth. The perch placed him at the centre of the rarefied universe he’d come to inhabit. His condo, in the former Four Seasons hotel, was steps to the west, and he parked his black Jaguar at the Hazelton Hotel opposite . His gym, the sleek Equinox, was a minute’s walk northwest; his preferred cigar shop , La Casa del Habano , was to the sout...

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — If you've ever wanted to live in the old Brooklyn home of a notorious gangster, you've got a chance to do it. The Park Slope home where Al Capone used to live is up for sale, and it will only cost you a cool $2.5 million to move in. Capone grew up in a nearby building on Garfield Place, according to realtor.com, and moved into this listing in the early 1900s. "If he had lived here today, he wouldn’t have to go into the rum-running business," listing agent Bren Salamon told Patch . That's because Capone could make some serious dough from the two rental units attached to the condo, which could bring in a pretty penny in 2017 Park Slope . Anyone who moves in, though, won't be looking at any old relics of Brooklyn gone by. The home, as many are in the borough these days, was completely renovated by an investor about a year ago. The main townhouse is 2, 980 square feet spread over two levels. Along with three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, t...

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — If you've ever wanted to live in the old Brooklyn home of a notorious gangster, you've got a chance to do it. The Park Slope home where Al Capone used to live is up for sale, and it will only cost you a cool $2.5 million to move in. Capone grew up in a nearby building on Garfield Place, according to realtor.com, and moved into this listing in the early 1900s. "If he had lived here today, he wouldn’t have to go into the rum-running business," listing agent Bren Salamon told Patch . That's because Capone could make some serious dough from the two rental units attached to the condo, which could bring in a pretty penny in 2017 Park Slope . Anyone who moves in, though, won't be looking at any old relics of Brooklyn gone by. The home, as many are in the borough these days, was completely renovated by an investor about a year ago. The main townhouse is 2, 980 square feet spread over two levels. Along with three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, t...

July 10 William Griffin Sr. to Catalina Espinosa Rodriguez , Ld: Lot, on the north side of Barnes Street, $60,800 Brenda Thomas Tharpe to K&G Investments LLC , Ld: Executor’s Deed, Lot 7, Block B Subdivision: Haltom Hills, $80,000 Brenda Thomas Tharpe to K&G Investments LLC , Ld:, Tract A R-50 2362 Executor’s Deed, $20,000 Brantley Chin Yu and Shannon Faye Yu to Good Faith Management LLC , Ld:, 1856 Formosa Drive, Lot 21, Block W Subdivision: F R Miles Section Five, $34,000 Cloreta Marshall and Robert Rhodes to Cloreta Marshall and Brian Marshall , Lot 7, Block B Subdivision: Tara Pines, $54,000 William W. McCartney and Luciann M. McCartney to Paul C. Mann and Sara N. Mann, Lot 4, Block Subdivision: Aumond Tract, $482,500 Roger Alan Barnes, Bobby Lee Barnes and Sandra Kay Phillips to Good Faith Management LLC , Ld: Lots 13 &14, Plat Book 17-D 116, $5,000 Jay W. Foster to Austin T. Cochran, Ld:, Lot 17, Block Subdivision: Bedford Heights Section A, $102,000 Lucille Sul...