Tish James snoozes as NYC charity burns tens of millions
State Attorney General Tish James should be digging into the $100 million pit of waste, lost opportunities and likely self-dealing that is the West Harlem Development Corp., but she’s too busy posing for cameras and losing lawsuits against the Trump administration. Columbia University funded the WHDC in 2009 as a payoff to local powerbrokers as it got the state to use eminent domain to help it swallow a huge chunk of the neighborhood.
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State Attorney General Tish James should be digging into the $100 million pit of waste, lost opportunities and likely self-dealing that is the West Harlem Development Corp., but she’s too busy posing for cameras and losing lawsuits against the Trump administration. Columbia University funded the WHDC in 2009 as a payoff to local powerbrokers as it got the state to use eminent domain to help it swallow a huge chunk of the neighborhood. The nonprofit was supposed to invest those tens of millions of bucks in Harlem economic-development projects, with $20 million earmarked to build affordable housing. Instead, the WHDC became a spout of political patronage, handing out grants to small local Harlem arts or youth organizations, paying fat salaries to politically connected insiders and — bizarrely — allegedly helping to formulate the Council on American Islamic Relations’ “strategy on responding” to Hamas’ Oct.
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- State Attorney General Tish James should be digging into the $100 million pit of waste, lost opportunities and likely self-dealing that is the West Harlem Development Corp., but she’s too busy posing for cameras and losing lawsuits against the Trump administration. Columbia University funded the WHDC in 2009 as a payoff to local powerbrokers as it got the state to use eminent domain to help it swallow a huge chunk of the neighborhood.
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Tish James snoozes as NYC charity burns tens of millions
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