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Public statement source · YT659
New York Apartment Tour $3,000/month
C090 (Frank Tufano v. Adam Starowicz, No. 50710/2022) was filed in WESTCHESTER COUNTY Supreme Court on 2022-12-20 — the source_url in src/data/lawsuits.csv carries courtType=Westchester%20County%20Supreme%20Court. Forty-four days earlier (2022-11-06 → 2022-12-20, computed in code), this video states he is living "north of the city … kind of by the Connecticut border" at ~$3,000/month, that it is "a temporary living situation", and that he is "a lot closer to work". Westchester County is the New York county immediately north of New York City abutting Connecticut. That is a residence-to-venue corroboration: it supplies the ordinary, non-sinister reason C090 was commenced in Westchester rather than in New York County or in Pennsylvania, which the docket alone does not explain. It describes no filing conduct, names no party, and predicts no suit. Possible case/dispute link: C090 / DSP020, as venue context only, and tentative. ⚠ The link is inferential — he never says "Westchester", never mentions a court, and never mentions the dispute. It rests on matching a spoken region to a docketed venue. Direction trap 5 applies to the party side: no person is named.
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I'm paying around 3 000 [= $3,000] a month which Probably sounds crazy to you guys but in New York it was actually a very very good deal at the time
C090 (Frank Tufano v. Adam Starowicz, No. 50710/2022) was filed in WESTCHESTER COUNTY Supreme Court on 2022-12-20 — the source_url in src/data/lawsuits.csv carries courtType=Westchester%20County%20Supreme%20Court. Forty-four days earlier (2022-11-06 → 2022-12-20, computed in code), this video states he is living "north of the city … kind of by the Connecticut border" at ~$3,000/month, that it is "a temporary living situation", and that he is "a lot closer to work". Westchester County is the New York county immediately north of New York City abutting Connecticut. That is a residence-to-venue corroboration: it supplies the ordinary, non-sinister reason C090 was commenced in Westchester rather than in New York County or in Pennsylvania, which the docket alone does not explain. It describes no filing conduct, names no party, and predicts no suit. Possible case/dispute link: C090 / DSP020, as venue context only, and tentative. ⚠ The link is inferential — he never says "Westchester", never mentions a court, and never mentions the dispute. It rests on matching a spoken region to a docketed venue. Direction trap 5 applies to the party side: no person is named.
that however I am going broke so this is more of like a temporary living situation
A first-person, dated statement of personal financial distress 44 days before he sued his co-member of Frankie's Free-Range Meat, LLC over an oral contract arising from that business. It sits at the head of the same arc this slice documents: "I am going broke" at −44 days (this file), "liquidate everything get everything out of here" at −21 days (7ekYVjJdjgk), and the meat business being carried by the other four storefronts at +2 days (96NLrUKO0E8). The statement describes no filing conduct and names no person, no LLC and no dispute. ⚠ Note also that the phrase sits beside an admission that he took the place partly for a wrong reason ("I got this because I thought it was going to be lower radiation EMF which I wasn't so correct about") and in a video whose closing joke is about "living in his car in LA" — self-deprecating framing is available and is not excluded. Possible case/dispute link: C090 / DSP020, subject-matter and chronology only, tentative. No party is named.
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
50710/2022 — Frank Tufano v. Adam StarowiczTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:35 researched as bearing on this case: [0:34]–[0:44] — Rent and region, 44 days before C090 is filed in that same region's court.