In a letter to the president's legal adviser, Mr. Cocco said that the deal was "against the interests of the Dominican government, due to its one-sided nature, exorbitant clauses, that it violates Dominican laws," and that there had been a "lack of transparency, commercial ethics in the granting of the contract".
The city comptroller's office oversees the granting of city contracts, but the City Charter allows the mayor to override the comptroller when the comptroller's objections involve corruption, and aides said Mr. Giuliani would exercise that right.
But Mr. Hevesi, whose office oversees the granting of city contracts, said the city had not followed the rules to get such exemptions, and even if it had, the circumstances would not have justified the exception.
A $37,000 contract to Mr. Kemp's former chief of staff, Wendell W. Gunn, was described by H.U.D. officials as an embarrassment to the Housing Secretary, a former Republican Presidential candidate who had vowed to reform the granting of contracts at the agency.
He pressed Parliament to legalize the granting of sugar contracts in 1860, thus marking the beginning of Liberal power in the Netherlands.
Over and above the accusations related to "the Line" scandal, in June 2016 Baldetti and Pérez Molina were formally charged with having engineered the granting of government contracts in exchange for illegal financing of the 2011 election campaign.
Mr. Hevesi, whose office oversees the granting of city contracts, has until Monday to decide whether to accept or reject the Maximus contracts and others awarded in the same process.
Mr. Anson eventually approved the firm to work on the projects, both of which would become subjects of a federal grand jury investigation into corruption in the granting of contracts by members of the Rowland administration.
The EPA appears to be the focus of concerted attention from the new administration: Officials there have also halted the granting of any new contracts or awards by the department.
State Supreme Court Justice William Davis concluded that the administration's granting of two contracts worth $104 million to Maximus, a job placement company, was corrupted by favoritism and other improprieties.
