CITY OF NEW YORK CONFLICTS OF INTEREST BOARD

2 Lafayette Street, Suite 1010 New York, New York 10007 (212) 442-1400 Fax: (212) 442-1407 TDD: (212) 442-1443

Nicholas Scoppetta Chair/Board Member Anthony Crowell Board Member Andrew Irving Board Member Burton Lehman Board Member Erika Thomas-Yuille Board Member ____________ Mark Davies Executive Director Wayne G. Hawley Deputy Executive Director & General Counsel Carolyn Lisa Miller Director of Enforcement Julia Davis Special Counsel & Director of Annual Disclosure Alex Kipp Director of Training & Education Varuni Bhagwant Director of Administration Derick Yu Director of Information Technology

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2013

CONTACT: Carolyn Lisa Miller (212) 442-1419 miller@coib.nyc.gov

FORMER HPD ATTORNEY FINED $1,000 FOR REVOLVING DOOR VIOLATION

In a settlement with the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, a former Agency Attorney for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) paid a $1,000 fine for representing a landlord in a matter in Housing Court in which HPD was the petitioner and was represented by an HPD attorney; the former Agency Attorney and the HPD attorney negotiated and signed a Consent Order and Judgment to resolve the matter. Because the matter had been pending at HPD while the Agency Attorney was still employed at HPD, his post-employment appearance violated the revolving door prohibition of the Citys conflicts of interest law. Scroll down or click here to view the public disposition in this case. All of the Boards dispositions are available free of charge, in full-text searchable form, on the website for the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School (www.CityAdmin.org). The Conflicts of Interest Board took the occasion of this settlement to remind City officials and employees that, for one year after leaving City service, they may not communicate with their former agency on behalf of a private employer. Prohibited communications can be at in-person meetings or by phone, fax, mail, or e-mail and can also include court proceedings if the matter in question was pending at the former public servants City agency while the public servant was still employed by the City. Carolyn Lisa Miller, Director of Enforcement, handled this case for the Board. The Conflicts of Interest Board is the Citys ethics board and is charged with interpreting and enforcing the Citys the conflicts of interest, annual disclosure, and lobbyist gift laws. For more information about the Board, visit: http://nyc.gov/ethics. Anyone with questions about these laws is urged to contact the Board through its website or by calling (212) 442-1400.

The Board does not comment on its dispositions, except as set forth above. For additional public information about the Boards enforcement activitiesincluding summaries of all prior enforcement dispositions and fines imposedvisit the Boards website: www.nyc.gov/html/conflicts/html/units/enforcement.shtml.