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May 7, 2008
Federal probe into approval of Forest City Ratner's Ridge Hill project continues
WNBC.com, Corruption Probe Focuses On $630M Yonkers Project
Scrutiny, sources said, has fallen on City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi, who had opposed the $630 million Ridge Hill project in 2005 but subsequently changed her position and voted for it the following year. Her attorney, Murray Richman, had no comment Monday.
Prosecutors, sources said, have also been asking about the role of veteran lobbyist Al Pirro, whose Web site for his firm, The Pirro Group, lists the Ridge Hill developers among his clients. Pirro, husband of former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, said he has done nothing wrong.
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Ridge Hill, a project of Forest City Ratner, is slated to bring 1,000 apartments, 1.3 million square feet of retail space and a movie complex to 81 acres near Sprain Lake."We're cooperating with the investigation," said Loren Riegelhaupt, spokesman for Forest City Ratner, developers of Ridge Hill as well as the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn.
The Journal News, Forest City Ratner lobbying campaign for Ridge Hill detailed
Details are surfacing about Forest City Ratner's lobbying campaign for the approval of the development company's other controversial regional megaproject. The exact purpose of several meetings are unclear, so unclear that targets remain certain that nothing untowards happened, though they still have no idea why Forest City asked for the meeting.
Posted by lumi at May 7, 2008 4:03 AM