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November 27, 2007
Former Commissioner Fined for Atlantic Yards Connection
Gotham Gazette is reporting that Dolly Williams was fined $4,000 by the NYC Conflict of Interest Board on the same day that we find that Shirley McRae will succeed Ms. Williams on the City Planning Commission.
According to a deposition released by the Conflicts of Interest Board today, Dolly Williams, who has served as a commissioner since 2003 and announced she would leave the board last month, voted in favor of the project while she was simultaneously becoming an investor in the New Jersey Nets - who will move to Brooklyn as part of the major downtown development, Atlantic Yards.
In late April of 2004, Williams put $250,000 in escrow to guarantee her investment in the Nets. A little over two weeks later she voted in favor of the project that expanded the commercial use of a site within the Atlantic Yards plan.
NoLandGrab: It should be noted that it took over THREE YEARS after Atlantic Yards critics and Brooklyn Papers noted WIlliams's conflict for the Board to act.
Perhaps this closes one of the early bizarre chapters in the Atlantic Yards saga.
Posted by lumi at November 27, 2007 7:46 PM