The longtime downtown heliport operator is pushing formal investigation into contracts given to alternatives by the Adams administration, the Post learned.
Saker Aviation, which has operated the city-owned helipad for 18 years, has filed the latest challenge after the City Economic Development Corporation chose Downtown Skyport LLC to operate the facility. Enforcement officer.
“We are writing to you to express our strong belief that we should immediately begin a criminal investigation on this issue,” Saker Chairman William Wachtel said on February 14th that he was a member of the Jocelyn Strauber. I said this in a letter on the 14th of the month.
If city officials know about illegal activities and choose to ignore them, then that should also be investigated, Wattel said.
The exchange company is a UK-based Skyports company and partnership that includes Skyport Infrastructure, operator of London Heliports, and French Group ADP, which operates three airports in Paris.
Wachtel appears to have “material misrepresentation” on EDC, which allegedly hides “significant activities” by Croatia, Madagascar, Libya, United Arab Emirates projects and Groupe Adap subsidiaries, so the alternative is The group said it should be disqualified.
In a letter, Wachtel said “four separate patterns of conspiracy and bribery” by a subsidiary of Group ADP led to two deferred prosecutor's agreements with French authorities, involving overseas airport development projects. These transactions included a $15 million fine in 2023 and a “World Bank Group ban in 2022.”
Doi declined to comment.
Last week, Wachtel appealed to city director Brad Zander to refuse the contract for the same reasons.
The Secretary said the contract is still under review.
In a statement in last week's post, EDC defended a new contract with the Skyport Consortium in downtown, but said Saker's new objections are under review.
Skyport won the contract through the competitive bidding process.
Both foreign companies have developed the use of quieter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which is Mayor Eric Adams' top priorities.
Helicopter noise has long been a major ban for New York City residents, with 59,000 complaints recorded last year.
“In that face, this 'in-review' approval leads to one mysterious conclusion that it is impossible to know that the city had not recognized the company's continuous criminal activity,” Wachtel said. I say it.
Skyport declined to comment.
