Four days after an awkward effort by Deputy Mayor Laura Anglin to fire Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito, Mayor de Blasio made the dismissal official while praising Mr. Esposito’s past performance and saying he would continue to serve in his post until a national search produces his replacement.
The Mayor’s Dec. 4 statement was intended to quell what he said “was a lot of confusion in the public domain” over Mr. Esposito’s status in one of the city’s key emergency leadership posts. That included press reports that he had been fired by Ms. Anglin on Nov. 30 but that the OEM chief showed up for work Monday morning, evidently determined to hear about his fate from the Mayor directly.
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