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May 3, 2008
Feds seek e-mails from 2 on council
LoHud.com
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records from Yonkers City Council members Sandy Annabi and Patricia McDow in their continuing corruption probe in Yonkers - and have been asking questions about former powerbroker Albert Pirro's role in the controversial Ridge Hill project.The subpoenas ask for Annabi's financial disclosure form from 2006 and all e-mails she sent and received from 2004 until March 28, the date the subpoena was issued to the city.
Federal prosecutors also asked for all e-mails McDow sent and received related to the $630 million Ridge Hill project, the developer Forest City Ratner, consultant Melvin Lowe and another project, the Longfellow development.
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McDow described Melvin Lowe as a representative of Forest City Ratner and said she had never met or heard of him before the Ridge Hill project. She was unaware of why federal officials would want any e-mails between him and her."I communicated with him because he was one of the team," she said.
As usual:
A spokesman for Forest City Ratner also declined to comment....
Some background:
Back in 2005, the NY Times covered the laundry list of Albert Pirro's liabilites to his wife's political fortunes. Pirro's association with Forest City Ratner came up in a disclosure about his work on behalf of the Times new headquarters:*
Mr. Pirro, whose law license was suspended in 2003 for three years, has a lobbying firm, the Pirro Group. For several months in 2004, it was retained by Forest City Ratner, the development partner for the new Midtown headquarters of The New York Times Company, to seek tax credits for an environmental cleanup of the site. The site was cleaned up according to state guidelines although the tax credits were not granted, said Michele de Milly, a spokeswoman for Forest City Ratner.
Posted by amy at May 3, 2008 10:05 AM