looking for advice >Needed to sublease an apartment at beginning

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>Needed to sublease an apartment at beginning of this summer
>found someone
>i needed to move fast and it would have taken 3 for the apartment place to "inspect" the apartment and get the forms in order (+350 dollar sublease fee)
>he let me move in without signing anything (his stuff was already gone)
>i lived there for 3 months while paying directly to him, not ever signing a sublease form or anything. so the apartment place didnt know i was living there
>this was fine until the last month, when they started doing inspections (fire alarms, etc) and the manager realized what was going on
>i had already paid the guy the last months rent, so i was basically done paying anything and was planning on moving out at the end of the month
>i move out, original guy returns the keys and all is done
>get text message from original guy bitching at me saying he got a "termination fee" of 350 dollars because the manager changed the lease to my name for the last like 2 weeks after seeing me a bunch of times
>he wants me to pay the 350 dollars for him because he "doesnt feel responsible for it"

whos in the right here? i think he should be on the line because he didn't pay the original sublease fee and this is really all his fault, but to me it doesnt really makes sense to have a termination fee and not just a retroactive sublease fee (which neither of us paid)