Greaney v. Ferrer

Order, Supreme *155Court, New York County (Joan Madden, J.), entered April 17, 2000, which, in an action for defamation, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The complaint alleges that in the course of a political campaign, when defendant Ferrer took credit for the closing of a hospital waste incinerator, defendant’s rival for office, for whom plaintiff was working as campaign manager, responded that the incinerator would never have been built in the first place had defendant not supported its construction…