A real estate bait-and-switch allegedly pushed through by Queens Assemblywoman Barbara Clark and former Senator Frank Padavan has attorney generals investigating whether the pair received kickbacks from the buyer, Indian Cultural and Community Center. The site in question is the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, which was parceled off for a song at $1.8 million, $5.5 million below its estimated market value. The kicker? Instead of the proposed one-story community center, insiders now describe the project as two nine-story apartment towers. [NYP]
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