Source: Politico
“A close friend of New York City Mayor Eric Adams disregarded an official scoring system for a bidding process he oversaw through his role controlling municipal real estate deals. Instead that friend — Jesse Hamilton — overruled the process altogether and steered a lucrative contract away from the initial winner and to a major mayoral donor, as POLITICO first reported. Hamilton’s role in the deal was the subject of a City Council hearing Tuesday, as lawmakers grilled his boss about that and other suspected corruption at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services — a powerful but obscure municipal agency.” (10/30/24)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/30/new-york-adams-hamilton-contract-donor-00186105