Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Shorris to Testify on Nursing Home Sale at Public Hearing

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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