Prime Adams administration actual property official Jesse Hamilton, who has come underneath scrutiny by investigators wanting into his function within the metropolis’s leasing processes, was a no-show for the second Metropolis Council listening to in a row inspecting his actions.
Division of Citywide Administrative Providers spokeswoman Anessa Hodgson blamed Hamilton’s absence on a “medical emergency” Friday morning. She declined to reveal any particulars concerning the ex-state senator’s situation or if he needed to search medical consideration, saying she’s not permitted to share such info.
Hamilton, the company’s deputy commissioner for actual property providers, has confronted backlash from Council members for a Manhattan DA probe that features scrutinizing his work at DCAS, for his hiring of Diana Boutross, an actual property govt introduced on to guide town’s industrial leasing operations, and for his pushing of a lease settlement at a property owned by a rich donor to Mayor Adams.
Hamilton didn’t instantly return calls and texts Friday.
His cellphone was taken by brokers with the DA’s workplace after he landed at JFK Airport in September, coming back from a visit to Japan he took with Boutross and Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the mayor’s indicted former chief adviser, who additionally had their telephones seized.
In response to a lawsuit filed by one other actual property agency, JRT Realty, Hamilton, a good friend of Mayor Adams, additionally pushed agency Cushman & Wakefield to carry on Boutross to guide the agency’s account with town. The go well with claimed Boutross used her ill-gotten place to spice up her personal backside line by blocking JRT from enterprise and accumulating their fee.
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Mayor Adams and Jesse Hamilton in 2016. (Kevin C Downs for New York Every day Information)
Hamilton beforehand was requested to testify at a Council listening to in October referred to as to look at his transfer to drag a lease for town’s Division of Growing older and as a substitute hand it to 14 Wall Avenue, a property owned by billionaire Alexander Rovt, a serious Adams donor.
He skipped that listening to.
At Friday’s listening to, DCAS Commissioner Louis Molina testified Boutross has not had her duties modified or reviewed by his company regardless of scrutiny from the DA investigators.
“There has been no review of DCAS of her role in that,” Molina mentioned, including that the mayor’s workplace is reviewing the 14 Wall Avenue lease, and that DCAS is internally reviewing some operations.
