DC-Bound Carrion Accused of Dirty Politics Back in the Bronx

As former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion leaves his old borough behind and begins his new post as director of the White House Office on Urban Policy, some controversy brews at his old office. The Daily News reported that he "pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers' money." While other pols such as former Bronx BP Fernando Ferrer and State Senator Israel Ruiz have defended him, neither Carrion nor anyone else in the Obama administration responded to the allegations. His most vocal critic city planner Richard Lipsky told the News, "Carrion's acted in such a perverse manner to really go out of his way to thwart community and small-business concern." A Times profile summarized his administration by saying, "The results of many of his initiatives and commissions are mixed, with some achieving their goals, some still in the planning stages and others fading away."