Former Mortgage Scammer Cleaned Ebola Doctor?s Apartment

BuzzFeed - The attorney general flagged the contractor. The city says the work was performed correctly, but says the situation is under review. Sal Pane outside the building where Dr. Craig Spencer, who was infected with Ebola, lives on Oct. 24, 2014. Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters The public face of the cleanup of the home of a New York doctor infected with Ebola is a former mortgage scammer and convicted felon released from prison in 2011 whose company won the high-stakes city contract despite his well-known recent past. Mayor Bill de Blasio's aides have known of Salvatore Pane's background since Monday, officials confirmed to BuzzFeed News, and City Hall quietly stopped working with his firm — but a City Hall official defended his work. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman flagged the contract because his office — led at the time by now-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — won a judgment against Pane and his previous companies in 2010 for "engaging in fraudulent and illega