Squadron Quizzes Mayor About City’s Unwillingness to Sue Former Rivington House Owner

“The mayor has personally blamed the real estate developers at the center of the scandal — accusing them of hoodwinking the city administration into dropping deed restrictions on the former nursing home. Based on the mayor’s public statements, Squadron said the former owner, the Allure Group, should be sued under the False Claims Act.”

Squadron said, “Frankly it leads to questions when (officials) at the highest levels of the administration (are) accusing (the developers) of misleading (the city). “To just be told, ‘we agree but we can’t,’ is not sufficient for a community that is still smarting from the loss of a healthcare facility.”

Appreciations to the Lo-Down for their original, breaking, and full coverage of Rivington House.

“Appreciations to Senator Squadron who had the guts to call out the mayor on the lack of forceful push back on Rivington House by this Administration. He did it respectfully and with (correct) appreciations for what the Mayor has done to benefit our communities. Squadron is looking for a way to make a statement loud and clear that we don’t just turn tail and say we failed when someone has deliberately hurt and misled the public for private gain. Especially when that public may literally have no voice to fight on their own behalf. We must fight with and for them. We push back. We make common cause for the right reasons and we call our own ‘side’ to account. Sometimes you just have to say no, no further. Or we get what we are seeing now with policies that would undermine our foundational purpose in creating this (imperfect) attempt at real democracy. Again, our thanks to the Senator.” Neighbors to Save Rivington House