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...article you published on March 16 may have led some readers to believe that Harvard Real Estate, Inc. played only a minor role in the assault and battery" charges made against me recently by one of their workmen. The facts tell a different story...
...Immediately after the incident the workmen complained to the police only that I had "violated his personal space." Assault and battery was invented later in the day, presumably after he had consulted with his superiors at HRE. (I called police after the workman, wielding a 2-by-4, threatened to hit me. It was the impression of witnesses that the workman made the comment about his "space" to try to explain his threat...
Epstein, however, said "my real gripe is not with the workmen, but with...
...which manages Harvard's properties, has been engaged in protracted disputes with several small groups of tenants. At the Craigie Arms building on Mt. Auburn St., residents charged that Harvard violated Cambridge rent control codes; at 9-13a Ware St. tenants complained of trespassing by HRE workmen who are installing expensive new windows against the tenants' will; and at 8 Plympton St., tenants forced the rent board to correct overcharges in rent by HRE. Involved in each of these cases and several others were members of the Harvard Tenants' Union (HTU), a group with representatives...
...workmen "surrounded" him and one of them, Daniel Giatrelis--and HRE employee--said he would assault Epstein if he interfered further with their work, Epstein said...