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July 25, 2006
State Agency with Corrupt Ties to Ratner Gives Fully Expected Glowing Report on Ratner's Project
Daily Gotham
By Mole333
The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) is the state agency that is reviewing Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project and which has had a strange, corrupt relationship with Ratner that seriously calls into question their ability to judge his project. The ESDC has just come out with their long report on the project and there is no surprise that the upshot is a glowing recommendation of Ratner's proposal.
Mole333 is still pretty bent out of shape that Ratner and the ESDC used the same lawyer to work on the same project, though to be fair, the lawyer, David Paget, "resigned" from his work for developer Bruce Ratner just before he started working for the ESDC (no conflicts here, right?).
The fun stuff begins when Mole333 compares language from the DEIS to statements by third-party observers.
Posted by lumi at July 25, 2006 6:55 AM