The mayor’s office blocked a lucrative lease that was assigned to a billionaire Eric Adams donor – After the slogan of “corruption” By the city council.
Connor Martinez, director of legislative affairs in the mayor’s office, sent an email to concerned council members on November 12, confirming that the city lease at 14 Wall Street, owned by real estate investor and Adams donor Alexander Rowt, was put on hold pending review. Had gone. was being organized.
“I commend First Vice Mayor Maria Torres-Springer for listening to our concerns and stopping the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) fishery lease agreement at 14 Wall Street,” council members Lincoln Restler, Chris Marte and Keith Powers said in a joint statement. Credit is given.”
“New Yorkers deserve to know that taxpayers are getting the best deal – the mayor’s donors are not being rewarded with a multimillion-dollar lease.”
the poles had DCAS Commissioner Luis Molina interrogated A hearing on the report late last month revealed that Jesse Hamilton – a former state senator and longtime friend of Adams – had stripped a lease for the city’s Department of Aging and instead leased it to 14 Wall Street. Had given.
Molina stressed to the council that Hamilton – who was not present at the hearing – got the city a good deal, while Adams announced that he had asked his new first deputy mayor, Torres-Springer, to look into the lease agreements. Was instructed to do.
The emails show council members requested the Adams administration withdraw the lease agreement and review all real estate transactions involving Hamilton — DCAS’s deputy commissioner of real estate services, which is responsible for the city’s $1.5 billion deal. Oversees the leasing portfolio of – included.
Council members raised concerns After Politico’s report Hamilton rejected the formal bidding process that would have awarded the contract to move the Department of Aging to 250 Broadway, across from City Hall, and instead awarded the contract to 14 Wall Street.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is also reportedly Investigating whether bribery inspired City Hall Leasing of commercial properties.
Agents from the DA’s office recently seized Hamilton’s phone when he returned from a trip to Japan with the mayor’s adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and a broker with the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, who handles its transactions with DCAS. Are. None of them have been accused of wrongdoing.
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