First deputy mayor Tony Shorris will testify at what is expected to
be a long and contentious City Council hearing on one of the biggest
snafus of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration: the city-enabled sale
of a nursing home to a luxury condo builder, which yielded the seller a
$72 million profit.
Shorris' planned attendance at the hearing on Thursday, confirmed by
spokesman Eric Phillips, will mark the highest-profile public airing of
the controversy surrounding the sale of Rivington House on the Lower
East Side of Manhattan.
But it will not be the first time he is grilled on the sale of the
property, which was facilitated when the Department of Citywide
Administrative Services (DCAS) removed two deed restrictions requiring
the building to be a nonprofit health facility.
On July 27, Shorris answered questions for two and a half hours from
an investigator probing the matter on behalf of the the city
comptroller, Scott Stringer.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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