Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City Account, Suit Alleges

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Jesse Hamilton Forced Real Estate Firm to Assign Broker Pal to City Account, Suit Alleges

A deputy commissioner and longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams forced a real estate brokerage the city relies on to help secure leases to hire a friend he identified as “my broker,” new court papers allege.Jesse Hamilton, deputy commissioner for real estate services at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), told Cushman & Wakefield, the brokerage house DCAS uses, that the firm would be pushed out if they didn’t assign his f…