Adolfo Carrion was President Obama’s Urban Affairs Czar until the New York City ethics board fined him $10,000. The Daily News explains:
The architect designed a porch for then-Borough President Carrion in 2006. At the time, Subotovsky was working on several projects in the Bronx that needed Carrion’s support, including a major apartment complex called Boricua Village.
In a five-page disposition, Carrion admitted he did not have a written agreement with the architect and didn’t pay Subotovsky for his work until after the Daily News revealed this conflict of interest in March 2009 – more than two years after the job was done.
In a five-page disposition, Carrion admitted he did not have a written agreement with the architect and didn’t pay Subotovsky for his work until after the Daily News revealed this conflict of interest in March 2009 – more than two years after the job was done.
Then Obama moved him out of the White House over to HUD. Now, Carrion is leaving the administration and starting up an enterprise that seems to dovetail nicely with the sort of work he did at HUD and the White House.
In his departure letter, Carrion writes:
Upon my departure from HUD, I will be launching Metro Futures LLC, an entity that will be dedicated to advancing investment in infrastructure, housing, and smart metropolitan growth. In this work, I plan to continue to make progress towards our shared mission of building competitive, sustainable and opportunity-rich communities across our great country
I will keep an eye out to see if he benefits from the policies he helped shape while in the Obama administration. As Carrion describes it:
Our work in the White House launched a set of policies and initiatives that aligned the work of federal agencies to offer place-based competitive opportunities for stakeholders throughout the country. These include, among many others, Regional Planning and Sustainability Grants, Promise Neighborhoods,Choice Neighborhoods, The Interagency Partnership on Sustainable Communities, The White House Neighborhood Initiative, the Strong Cities/Strong Communities Fellowship to assist troubled cities, acoordinated effort to end veterans homelessness, and a proposal to Congress for a National Infrastructure Bank included in the American Jobs Act.
This is a business to watch closely.
