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HA Chair Under Siege, Mayor Cries Fake News

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/29/18

Even as the city’s own Department of Investigation last week torched Shola Olatoye’s already-smoldering credibility Jan. 22, Mayor de Blasio acted as if the Housing Authority Chairwoman in his eyes remained fireproof.

A day earlier, it was announced that HA General Manager Michael Kelly would soon vacate his position in what seemed new fallout from the series of problems—from lying about whether required lead-paint inspections had been performed by qualified personnel to ceiling cave-ins and heat outages during the recent cold spell—that have plagued the agency.

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