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City must pay at least $1B to fix NYCHA nightmare after feds cite Daily News reports exposing the agency’s lies on housing conditions
NYCHA managers have for years used carefully crafted lies and elaborate deception to cover up the squalid condition of public housing, filing false documents, tricking federal inspectors and betraying the 400,000 tenants who have long endured heartbreaking conditions and the growing sense that nothing will ever change.
A blistering complaint made public Monday by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman ripped the lid off the New York City Housing Authority’s longstanding culture of deceit, revealing a bureaucratic tradition of lying about NYCHA’s failures to address everything from toxic lead paint to mold infestation to rat burrows.
Most alarmingly, Berman charged that NYCHA and the city Health Department deliberately underplayed the extent of lead poisoning in children living in public housing, choosing not to count untold hundreds who’ve tested positive for blood-lead levels considered dangerous by the federal government.
“These conditions are an assault on the health, safety and dignity of hardworking, rent-paying residents, and these violations will no longer be tolerated,” Berman said. “Today marks the beginning of the end of this nightmare for NYCHA residents.”
The U.S. attorney’s investigation began in November 2015 under Preet Bharara and involved a review of tens of thousands of internal documents and emails along with interviews with dozens of former and current NYCHA employees.
Prosecutors discovered that from 2010 through 2016, NYCHA had falsely certified to HUD at least 12 times that it was in compliance with all laws and regulations regarding keeping its apartments habitable.
Six of the false claims were made under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and six more under de Blasio
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City must pay at least $1B to fix NYCHA nightmare after feds cite Daily News reports exposing the agency’s lies on housing conditions - NY Daily News
NYCHA managers have for years used carefully crafted lies and elaborate deception to cover up the squalid condition of public housing, filing false documents, tricking federal inspectors and betraying the 400,000 tenants who have long endured heartbreaking conditions and the growing sense that nothing will ever change.
A blistering complaint made public Monday by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman ripped the lid off the New York City Housing Authority’s longstanding culture of deceit, revealing a bureaucratic tradition of lying about NYCHA’s failures to address everything from toxic lead paint to mold infestation to rat burrows.
Most alarmingly, Berman charged that NYCHA and the city Health Department deliberately underplayed the extent of lead poisoning in children living in public housing, choosing not to count untold hundreds who’ve tested positive for blood-lead levels considered dangerous by the federal government.
“These conditions are an assault on the health, safety and dignity of hardworking, rent-paying residents, and these violations will no longer be tolerated,” Berman said. “Today marks the beginning of the end of this nightmare for NYCHA residents.”
The U.S. attorney’s investigation began in November 2015 under Preet Bharara and involved a review of tens of thousands of internal documents and emails along with interviews with dozens of former and current NYCHA employees.
Prosecutors discovered that from 2010 through 2016, NYCHA had falsely certified to HUD at least 12 times that it was in compliance with all laws and regulations regarding keeping its apartments habitable.
Six of the false claims were made under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and six more under de Blasio
More at ...
City must pay at least $1B to fix NYCHA nightmare after feds cite Daily News reports exposing the agency’s lies on housing conditions - NY Daily News
