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A Brooklyn Democrat city councilmember is facing bipartisan accusations of racism after making comments about an Italian landscaping company.
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Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican and a member of the caucus, said he emailed the complaint to Councilman Kalman Yeger, the chairman of the Council’s Standards and Ethics Committee, and an attorney for the Council, on Thursday.
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The uproar is rooted in a comment that Ossé, a Democrat who heads the Council’s Cultural Affairs Committee, made Monday about Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, a city contractor that had to cough up more than $1 million in restitution last year after being accused of fraud.
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