{"id":198713,"date":"2026-04-15T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:13:09","slug":"101-year-old-tenant-rips-manhattan-super-who-conned-him-out-of-350-she-betrayed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198713\/","title":{"rendered":"101-year-old tenant rips Manhattan super who conned him out of $350: ‘She betrayed me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 101-year-old tenant who was conned out of $350,000 by his Manhattan super<\/a> said he felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by the person he once trusted \u2014 as the convicted con artist learned her fate at sentencing Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Victim Antonio Ruas bashed Rosalind Hernandez, to whom he gave power of attorney when his health started to decline, as a judge handed her up to 3 years in prison at a Manhattan court hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not accept this situation. I was very honest with this person, and she destroyed everything,\u201d Ruas said through an interpreter in a victim impact statement.<\/p>\n

\"AAntonio Ruas, 101, (pictured) was conned out of $350,000 by his Manhattan super, Rosalind Hernandez. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t feel happy because she betrayed me.\u00a0She destroyed all my years of hard work,\u201d the centurion added.<\/p>\n

Hernandez \u2014 who was convicted by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury on grand larceny charges in January<\/a> \u2014 was given the 1-to-3 years in prison over the objections of prosecutors, who asked for seven years. <\/p>\n

She was also ordered to pay back the money she snatched when she believed Ruas was on his deathbed after he suffered a near-fatal fall in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe abused me because of my age,\u201d Ruas said at Hernandez\u2019s sentencing.<\/p>\n

Manhattan prosecutors have said Hernandez took advantage of Ruas, a retired diamond cutter originally from Brazil, by knowing English wasn\u2019t his first language \u2013 when she convinced him to return to his native home and be close to his family while she took care of his finances.<\/p>\n

Hernandez, who devised the scheme between July 2023 to June 2024, had promised to sell off Ruas\u2019 Chelsea apartment and transfer all of his money to a bank account in Brazil \u2014 but months had passed and he still hadn\u2019t seen a cent, he testified at trial.<\/p>\n

\"RosalindHernandez faces up to a 3-year prison sentence and was also ordered to pay back the money she stole from Ruas. Steven Hirsch for the NY Post<\/p>\n

But the greedy super, who couldn\u2019t even muster an apology at her sentencing, then burned through his credit and debit cards by buying herself thousands of dollars worth of beauty product, clothes and self improvement subscriptions, prosecutors have said.<\/p>\n

Ruas \u2014 who recovered from his injuries \u2014 eventually returned to New York City only to find most of his furniture in his apartment gone, and that he was no longer receiving mail.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had said that Hernandez had changed the elderly man\u2019s mailing address to an associates in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is somebody who committed a calculated crime. She waited for years and waited until he was, at a particularly low point, where he was not able to live by himself,\u201d Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Raphaelle Monty said in a bid to lock up Hernandez for seven years.<\/p>\n

Hernandez \u2014 who was described as a \u201clifeline\u201d for senior tenants at the Chelsea Hall\u00a0co-op\u00a0in a 2023 New York Times profile<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 was ripped by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who called her conduct \u201cdespicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRosalind Hernandez took advantage of an older adult in her care, gaining his trust just to break it by stealing over half of his life savings, along with his personal belongings,\u201d Bragg said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Daniel Conviser called Hernandez\u2019s actions \u201cheinous\u201d and \u201cegregious\u201d \u2014 while ordering her to also pay $265,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 101-year-old tenant who was conned out of $350,000 by his Manhattan super said he felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13595,419,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-198713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-convictions","tag-courts","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}