Landlord-Tenant—COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (CEEFPA) Does Not Protect Tenants Who Engaged in Nuisance Conduct—Conduct of Profiteering Rent-Stabilized Tenant 'Not To Be Condoned by Permitting Tenant To Remain After the Fraud Has Been Found Out'—Tenant Failed to Establish Reasonable Excuse for Default

In November 2020, a plaintiff landlord had been awarded, on default, a judgment of ejectment based on the tenant's "use of the premises for short term rentals during the COVID-19 pandemic, which damaged the premises and put other tenants at risk of contracting COVID-19." The tenant sought to vacate the judgment of eviction and to be restored to possession.