The Queens Democrat said the Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp. is renting the parcel to a New Jersey contractor who has stashed trucks and construction equipment behind a locked chain-link gate. Cook said she can’t remember how much rent the group is charging the contractor, what his name is, or when exactly he signed the lease. Records show the nonprofit owes the city $58,044, dating to 2012, when it lost a property-tax exemption of the land. Cook is best known for sending taxpayer money to another nonprofit — an education concern run by her pal, former state Sen. Shirley Huntley. Huntley pleaded guilty in 2013 to taking $87,000 from the group, admitting that she and a fellow lawmaker — later identified as Cook — would use the taxpayer cash to go on shopping trips.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:08:53 +0000
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