Lopez railed against city newspapers and his “enemies” in the real-estate industry during an Oct. 28 meeting for loft tenants in Williamsburg to address landlord-tenant harassment in Bushwick and Williamsburg following the passage of his bill extending rights to tenants of illegally converted buildings., reported The Brooklyn Paper. It is Lopez’s first public appearance after extensive radiation therapy for cancer.
The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a Bushwick-based nonprofit which Lopez founded and has steered hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money towards every year, is the subject of two concurrent federal investigations, a widening city investigation, and an independent prosecutor’s probe of a charge of fraud by the city Department of Investigation earlier this spring, according to The Brooklyn Paper.
Several media outlets have pinpointed Ridgewood Bushwick for its board’s approval of high salaries for executive director Chris Fisher and housing director Angela Battaglia, both close Lopez allies and for the disputable competency of the board of directors, among other things.
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