Lying Til The End

from nolandgrab::

I jumped ship, sez Yards big

Departed Forest City honcho denies he got axed from building project

NY Daily News
By Jotham Sederstrom

Stuckey speaks, but has nothing to say?

Former Atlantic Yards Development Group President Jim Stuckey says that he wan't canned, only he's not saying why he's no longer working for Bruce Ratner:

Bruce Ratner's top lieutenant on the controversial Atlantic Yards project, James Stuckey, resigned this week from Forest City Ratner.

His sudden departure, and the fact that the company referred questions about his resignation to public relations guru Howard Rubenstein, fueled speculation by insiders that Stuckey's exit was a rocky one.

But Stuckey said yesterday his decision to leave his post as executive vice president of commercial development after 13 years with the company was not the result of a falling out between him and boss Bruce Ratner.

In keeping with the talking points from the press release, Stuckey adds:

"There are other interests I want to pursue and, quite honestly, when you're working 18-hour days on a project as complicated as this, with a company as great as Forest City, it's very difficult to pursue those other interests," Stuckey told the Daily News in his first public comments since his departure.

That's his story and he's stuck with it:

He declined to divulge his future job prospects. And when asked if he had signed a confidentiality agreement prohibiting him from discussing the Atlantic Yards project or his own resignation critically, Stuckey declined to comment.

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Must of been one big severance check. Notice how everyone who does business with Forest City has to keep quiet about it? who else operates like this? Let's see...drug dealers, mobsters, and just about anyone else who doesn't want the public knowing about their business practices. Why don't they want them to know. Unless it is a true issue of national security (about as likely in this case as Stuckey actually becoming a priest) then its fair to assume because Forest City knows that the public would find their business practices repulsive and probably illegal.