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"I Don't Mind F-king The Bridge."
Forest City Ratner has shown a knack for appearing in corruption cases, but never seems to get a proper screen credit. In the Ridge Hill corruption scandal they were billed as "Developer #2" and now, in the state Senator Carl Kruger indictment they appear as "Developer #1".
Fortunately, there are reporters like Norman Oder to make sure that credit is given where it is due, and reveal that it was indeed FCR who was paying co-indicted Kruger associate Richard Lipsky between $2000 and $4000 a month, and that the company appeared to enjoy a very chummy relationship with the Senator.
It was, in fact, FCR Vice President Bruce Bender who had perhaps the best lines in the entire case. The FBI reported that when told by Kruger, during a wire-tapped conversation, that there would be funds for a Prospect Park project but no public money to steer toward replacing the Carlton Avenue bridge, Bender was not happy:
The Vice President said that ..."this" was "bad." Kruger said, "I guess the park, fuck the bridge." The Vice President said that "my dilemma is as you know, I don't mind fucking the bridge, I can't fuck it right now, I've got to leverage that bridge, what's my value?" It's hard to imagine that even a screenwriter could come up with an exchange that better encapsulates Forest City Ratner: a company whose only regard for the public is how much of our money can be siphoned off.
Posted: 3.11.11
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