The NYC Register’s office was duped into filing fake deeds that declared rivals Ivanka Trump and Hillary Clinton were in bed together on a $150 million Manhattan real estate deal.
The bogus and ridiculous documents were only removed after being flagged by The Post.
The poor vetting happened despite authorities investigating roughly 3,500 fraudulent deeds in the Big Apple in the past decade.
Last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law making it easier for victims of deed theft to get back their property.
The deeds — which lacked mandatory signatures from a notary — claimed Trump, Clinton and someone named “Louis Reyes” bought air and subterranean rights to the exclusive University Club as well as the world’s tallest duplex condo at Central Park Tower.
The “Sky House” duplex at Central Park Tower – which has a current asking price of $150 million – features eight bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms sprawled across 11,535 square feet on the 127th and 128th floors.
The deeds also bizarrely claimed the “buyers” were “relatives or former relatives” of an alleged seller named “David Smith.”
The paperwork was stamped as “approved” by city clerks on May 16.
“It’s frightening to think real estate documents can be so easily manipulated that every city clerk involved overlooked such an obvious fake,” said Adelaide Polsinelli, a real estate broker at Compass who first spotted the phony filing.
Real estate execs who also reviewed the docs thought it was comical city employees could be duped into thinking a Trump and a Clinton could partner in the art of the deal.
The malicious filer may have included the University Club as part of the transaction because Clinton and her lunch buddy, the Post’s Cindy Adams, were infamously kicked out of there in 1997 after Adams used a cell phone.
Ryan Lavis, a spokesman for the city Department of Finance confirmed, “This deed was filed in error and has been removed following a review.”
“The City Register reviews all recordings for signs of deed fraud and make referrals where appropriate to the Sheriff’s Office and to prosecuting attorney offices,” he added.
The Trump Organization and Clinton Foundation didn’t return messages.
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