Metro

I was fired for complaining about de Blasio

A former deputy commissioner plans to sue the city for $5 million, saying he was fired for complaining about two of Mayor de Blasio’s biggest City Hall controversies — the lifting of deed restrictions for Lower East Side nursing home Rivington House and the granting of city favors to mayoral contributor Harendra Singh.

As head of the Department of Citywide Administration Services, ex-deputy Ricardo Morales had been responsible for collecting nearly $750,000 in rent Singh owed the city for Water’s Edge, Singh’s restaurant on municipal property in Queens.

According to a notice of claim filed with the city Comptroller’s Office, in firing Morales this past February, the city “unlawfully retaliat[ed]” against Morales because he complained after City Hall intervened on behalf of the foundering restaurant.

The firing was also retaliation for Morales’ objections to “City Hall’s lack of truthfulness regarding the lifting of Deed restrictions on Rivington House,” the claim notice says.

Lifting the restriction allowed the property’s new owner, Allure Group, to flip it — at a $72 million profit —to a luxury condo developer.

The mayor was cleared of wrongdoing in a federal probe; City Hall did not respond to a request for comment Saturday night.