Squad 3 oversees City agencies involved in the construction industry, including the City Department of Buildings (DOB), and agencies involved in affordable housing and planning, including the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Department of City Planning (DCP). Squad 3 investigates corruption vulnerabilities that can lead to compromised safety on construction projects and
holds accountable those contractors who violate the safety and construction rules, including working with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on
the investigation, prosecution and conviction of defendants in the East Village fatal gas explosion; arresting City workers for taking bribes to look the other way on City construction code violations and arresting those individuals who offer bribes and gratuities to City inspectors, as in
this case that DOI was alerted to by a DOB Inspector. Squad 3 also investigates prevailing wage violations that result in the theft of workers’ wages on municipal projects and seeks to return those wages to those employees. In addition, this Squad investigates affordable housing fraud such as
this case that resulted in charges of conspiring to receive bribes and forge documents to corrupt the process by which Mitchell-Lama apartments in Coney Island were acquired.
Squad 3 Reports
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February 8, 2022: DOI's Investigation into Arverne by the Sea Homeowners
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February 15, 2017: Interim Report on Monitorship of the City's Rapid Repairs and Build it Back Programs
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January 12, 2017: Corruption Vulnerabilities at the Brooklyn Union Gas Company D/B/A National Grid NY
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November 17, 2015: Investigation into 2015 Fatality from a Piece of Facade and the City Department of Buildings' Failure to Enforce Facade Inspections
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November 10, 2015: Fuel Oil Delivery and the Schemes that Stole Millions of Dollars in Taxpayer Funds
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October 9, 2014: Build it Back Program: A Status Report
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September 30, 2014: Investigation into the Tenant Interim Lease Program
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July 2, 2014: Falsification of Site Safety Records in New York City Construction
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March 9, 2012: Investigation of Seedco's Workforce Center Contracts with the New York City Department of Small Business Services
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February 27, 2012: DOI and DOB Issue Findings in Investigation of Fatal Elevator Incident at 285 Madison Ave
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June 19, 2009: Investigation of Administrative Issues Relating to the Fatal Fire of August 18, 2007 at 130 Liberty Street