All over New York City, palms are getting greased.  This week granted us not one, but two corruption scandals in New York City politics, both touching on real estate.  First, the Department of Buildings’ former supervisor Jake Udeh was federally indicted over allegations that he took about $75,000 in bribes from construction companies.  The majority of these bribes allegedly came from one owner: Jih Yeuan “Mike” Hwang, owner of Hwang’s Construction Management Corporation. Prosecutors say Hwang paid Udeh to influence more than 250 construction approvals from 2021 to 2025. He paid “as little as $500” for construction approvals, according to […]

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