Groups Admit to Lobbying Illegally to Aid Mayor’s Plans

By RAY RIVERA

 

 

The city’s economic development agency and two other organizations have admitted that they illegally lobbied on behalf of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plans to redevelop two long-neglected areas in Queens and Brooklyn, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.

 

The findings came after a three-year investigation into the lobbying efforts by the agency, the Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental organization, and two other local development corporations that were formed as part of the mayor’s efforts to redevelop Willets Point in Queens and portions of Coney Island in Brooklyn.