New York CIty Council Member Ben Kallos

Curbed City Council turns up the heat on de Blasio administration at Rivington House hearing by Tanay Warerkar

City Council turns up the heat on de Blasio administration at Rivington House hearing

Overall, the hearing lasted six hours, the New York Times reported with several other members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration also questioned. There were questions about competency. City Coucilman Ben Kallos wondered how Shorris could do his job properly when he had to oversee 30 different city agencies, according to the Wall Street Journal.

There were questions over the timeline. De Blasio had previously stated that he only became aware of the whole wrongdoing towards the end of March, whereas Shorris’s testimony on Thursday seemed to suggest that it was towards the end of February or early March, according to the New York Post.

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