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# Kruger Nabs $7 Mil For Girlfriend's Offices
- URL: https://bklyner.com/kruger-nabs-7-mil-for-girlfriends-offices-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-09-16T19:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2010-09-16T19:00:44.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: #API-Imported

From the [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pad%5Ffor%5Fpol%5Fboard%5FQ3LfVMzvqQ8fHUEQjJLJ8N?ref=bklyner.com):

> The city is spending $7 million in taxpayer money on a state-of-the-art office building for a Brooklyn community board that has only two employees — state Sen. Carl Kruger’s girlfriend and sister, The Post has learned.

> It’s a costly “giveback” to Community Board 18 and the embattled Brooklyn Democrat for his backing nearly two decades ago of a $357 million city sewage-overflow storage plant, which is just now being built at Paerdegat Basin, officials said.

> “It’s a sweetheart deal for a community board run like a family-owned store,” said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government-watchdog group Citizens Union.

> Dadey said the recently completed 4,000-square-foot office and meeting space is “so out of context” with what other local boards get that it will just open the floodgates to others asking for the same.

> It’s rare for community boards to have dedicated city-owned office and meeting spaces. Most rent offices, are advised not to exceed 1,500 square feet of space, and host public meetings at larger spaces, city officials said.

> But the city is paying the price now for a deal the Dinkins administration cut in the early 1990s, while Kruger chaired CB 18 and the Department of Environmental Protection project was up for approval by the board.

> Kruger, however, said the city has only itself to blame for the high cost.

> “It’s a disgrace that this project is 10 years behind schedule, so, of course, costs escalated,” said Kruger, the subject of an FBI probe into alleged influence peddling.