Sentences with phrase «about lead paint inspections»

Embattled NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye returned to the scene of the crime Tuesday, appearing before the same City Council members she'd misinformed about lead paint inspections during a prior hearing under oath.

The leader of the New York City Housing Authority gave false testimony about lead paint inspections to the City Council last month, according to an explosive letter released the same...

NEW YORK — The New York City Housing Authority chair is under fire as the Department of Investigations is looking into allegations that Shola Olatoye lied under oath about lead paint inspections at a City Council meeting, the Daily News reports.

NYCHA chairwoman Shola Olatoye did not tell the truth during her sworn testimony about lead paint inspections before the city council last month, a letter from the Department of Investigation obtained by the Daily News reveals.

The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.

«There's an issue of credibility here,» said the judge — a week after the agency's chair, Shola Olatoye, stepped down amid accusations that she'd lied about lead paint inspections for some 55,000 units.

Not exact matches

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye had earlier come under fire for blowing off mandatory lead paint inspections, then lying to the feds about it.

Despite the revelations by the DOI, the mayor claimed the city was «open» about the four - year lapse in inspections for lead paint.

A Department of Investigation probe revealed that Olatoye falsely certified, to federal regulators, inspections for lead paint hazards in about 55,000 units.

James called the failure to inspect for lead paint and the false reporting about the inspections «unacceptable.»

Shola Olatoye, the chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), talks to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the housing authority not conducting lead paint inspections for years, and the scandal over Olatoye falsely submitting paperwork that NYCHA had conducted inspections.

Sen. Jesse Hamilton (D - Brooklyn) is dropping the bill four weeks after investigators revealed that the New York City Housing Authority failed to conducted mandated lead paint inspections for four years and lied to the federal government about it.

Even after NYCHA officials discovered in mid-2016 that they had been violating city and federal laws requiring lead paint inspections since late 2012, they never informed tenants about the dangerous lapse.

Mayor de Blasio, center, expressed his frustration on Monday about «mistakes that were made» by the city Housing Authority in not conducting lead - paint inspections in at - risk apartments.

It began with a Department of Investigation report in November saying she had knowingly falsified federal reports about inspections for lead paint, and DOI commissioner Mark Peters later accused Olatoye of misleading the City Council in February when she testified under oath about the training NYCHA employees received to do lead paint inspections.