Owner of $1.8M New York vacation rental avoids jail time after sisters die in fire from shoddy home work
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Peter Miller, 56, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the deaths of 21-year-old Jillian and 19-year-old Lindsay Wiener, who died in a house fire at his Hamptons vacation rental.
Miller, 56, copped to building an illegal outdoor kitchen that overloaded the home's electrical system and failing to install smoke detectors with functioning back-up batteries. Christina Coulter is a U.S. and World reporter for Fox News Digital. Email story tips to christina.coulter@fox.com.
Kitchen vents blocked by a wooden frame created a firetrap that stranded the two women in an upstairs bedroom, prosecutors said.
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