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Carone, a politically-connected lawyer and former counsel for the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has had a wide range of private business interests for years — all of which he claims to have divested since taking on the top post in Adams’ City Hall earlier this month.
Adams' chief of staff Frank Carone managed a medical company that remains in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to a Brooklyn landlord struggling to recover the money and evict its tenant for more than a year, the landlord claims in court records.
Vera De Souza insists sheâs been a good tenant. Sheâs lived in Design Place for the past eight years, and for most of that time has never missed a rent payment. That is, until COVID-19 came along and she lost her job as a restaurant worker. De Souzaâs rental assistance is still being processed, but in the meantime her income is limited to weekly $275 unemployment checks and whatever money she can earn selling homemade masks. On top of that she is helping her daughter-in-law, who also lives in the complex, recover from a difficult birth. De Souza said the propertyâs managem...