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Espada aide fired for alleged real estate violations

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State Senate majority leader Pedro Espada Jr. fired his chief of staff yesterday after learning that the aide allegedly acted as property manager for buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx that had nearly 7,400 unresolved violations as of late 2006. The aide, Onix Sosa, managed about 35 buildings. Of the unresolved violations, close to 1,100 of them were labeled immediately hazardous, city officials said. Sosa has also been named in more than 100 court cases in which tenants or the city asked for building repairs. State regulators revoked Sosa’s real estate broker’s license in 2004 because he failed to return deposits to renters. Espada said he had been unaware of Sosa’s property management record.