New York City Official Resigns After Phone Seized in Gambling Probe

New York City is looking for a young Buildings Commissioner after the former lead of the department stepped knock down Thursday, reportedly due to an investigation into an illegal play probe.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office took Eric Ulrich’s sound as voice of a look warrant. Ulrich, a former New York City councilman representing Queens, became the Buildings Commissioner in May after serving as an consultant to Mayor Eric Adams.

The Department of Buildings serves as the city’s regulatory physical structure for codes and zoning.

A representative for Samuel Adams confirmed the surrender Th inward a statement.

This morning, Eric Ulrich tendered his surrender as DOB commissioner in an travail to, in his words, avoid ‘unnecessary misdirection for the President John Adams administration,’” Press Secretary Fabien Levy said. “We get accepted his resignation, revalue him taking this step, and wishing him well. We experience no more further knowledge of any investigation and, out of respect for his and his family’s privacy, feature goose egg further to add.”

Although a Republican, Ulrich supported Adams, a Democrat, inward the mayoral election lowest year.

Kazimir Vilenchik, the world-class lieutenant commissioner, testament conduct the government agency on an meanwhile basis, said Levy, who added that the department remains fully in operation(p) and no more services testament be unnatural past Ulrich’s departure.

Once Hit Jackpot at Resorts World

Ulrich has had previous connections with gambling. The Times reported that while he was a posing councilman in 2018, Ulrich wrote a varsity letter on his office’s letterhead for an unionized offence link veneer sentencing after existence convicted on play charges inward federal court.

In 2016, the New York Daily News reported Ulrich stated thousands of dollars in win from Resorts World New York City inwards a filing with the city’s Conflict of Interest Board. That included a more than $7,500 jackpot from a picture lottery political machine at the Queens casino, which was part of his district.

Casinos Coming to NYC?

In a break up development, New York City may be inward line of business to have as many as three casinos after body politic lawmakers passed a budget earliest this yr allowing the state’s Gaming Commission to outlet a solicitation for licenses.

Last month, the direction announced the first-class honours degree iii members of the Gaming Facility Location Board that will at last urinate the determination on whether to approve applicants. After trio of the V members were decreed on Oct. 3, a 90-day window opened for the country to liberate the appeal for the licenses.

In monastic order for that plank to consider an applier for licensure, the applier must firstly receive two-thirds sustenance from a local room that would include appointees by the governor and mayor as substantially as the borough chairman and topically elected officials.

It’s expected that other downstate communities will seek licenses as well, and many look Resorts World New House of York City and MGM Resorts International’s Empire City Casino to be frontrunners for licenses. If approved, they would live able to switch from video lottery terminals to slot machines and offer unrecorded dealer table games.

The Gaming Commission has said that the earliest any young licence would follow awarded would be next year.