Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Covered-up Memo Reveals de Blasio Officials Weighed Pros and Cons of Selling Rivington House for Condos

 

The Department of Investigation released evidence Tuesday that the de Blasio administration deliberately covered up crucial information regarding the city's handling of a deed restriction on a Lower East Side nursing home.

Behind the scenes on Thursday DOI notified Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter by letter it would sue him to gain access to the mayor’s computer and thousands of pages of documents it had requested that Carter censored.

Late Friday Carter agreed to turn over the requested documents unredacted, and on Tuesday he reversed course and granted DOI access to the computer that serves the mayor and several of his top aides.

In the back-and-forth with Carter, DOI spelled out for the first time some of the important information Carter withheld that was clearly relevant to DOI’s investigation.

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Source: The New York Daily News and the Empire Report New York

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