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January 19, 2006
Life in a Small Town
The Real Estate Observer
Reporter Matthew Schuerman looks into the details of attorney David Paget's work double dipping with the Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner.
It turns out, according to a document The Real Estate obtained through a Freedom of Information request, that Forest City actually recommended the law firm to the E.S.D.C. A letter, dated Feb. 18, 2004, states that “[Forest City] has requested that [E.S.D.C] authorize and/or oversee the following services to be performed with the project” including “legal services to be provided by Sive, Paget & Riesel in connection with the environmental analysis of the project.” One of the services that attorney David Paget performed for E.S.D.C., according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday by Atlantic Yards opponents, was approving the developer’s application to demolish six buildings it owns on the project site, near Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.
Posted by lumi at January 19, 2006 10:47 PM