«In our opinion, REBNY did as good a job as it could do, considering that Dan Garodnick needed to have some type of substantial payment for public improvements,» said Ron Novita, an air rights expert at the brokerage City Center Real Estate, who corresponded with Slattery and his team multiple times during the Midtown East affair. (therealdeal.com)
Last week, however, the same watchdog group pointed out that the announced leader of the independent review, Norman Augustine, a past presidential science and technology adviser and leader of important technical assessments for NASA and Congress, is receiving substantial payments from ConocoPhilips for past service on the board of directors. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)