In the alternative, Empire asserted that the Plan itself constituted federal law.
It asserted that the plan discriminated against minority families, Mr. Rich said.
At the time, President Barack Obama's EPA asserted that the plan could prevent 1,500 to 3,600 premature deaths annually by 2030.
He asserted that the plan could cost retirees "up to $500 a month" that would otherwise be spent "for food, for clothing, for a grandchild".
Mr. Stringer's office, which reviewed plans provided by 40 of 180 nursing homes in the city and interviewed 28 nursing home administrators, asserted that the plans varied widely in length — from 2 pages to more than 200 — and were often incomplete.
In 1994, Congress provided subsidies for such programs, but they came under fierce attack by conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly who asserted that the plan was a scheme to track students into dead-end employment, that it let "central planners" decide what jobs students should aim for and that it was wrongly designed to get girls to shun traditionally female occupations.
Separately, a corruption suspect has asserted that the party planned to exploit its control of several government ministries to amass a campaign war chest of about $204 million.
A similar Heritage study, published in 2007, helped sink a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the Senate by asserting that the plan would cost $2.7 trillion, alarming Republican lawmakers.
Some local residents assert that the plan will bring excess traffic and unsuitably alter the town house, a landmark building in a designated historic neighborhood.
Milbank Tweed was paid $970,000 for an opinion letter asserting that the plan would save gift and estate taxes and related legal work, according to court papers.
