By Michael Horowitz

The Riverbay board, acting in executive session on last week, approved a resolution calling for board member Leticia Morales to give up the townhouse apartment she got by “skipping over” at least five other shareholders to get it, informed sources told the News.

It was unclear if Morales would resist the effort to force her out of the apartment that she moved into in September.

Co-op City attorney Jeffrey Buss, saying that Morales had gotten her apartment illegally, had recommended that the board member should be “booted” from the transfer apartment at Cooper Place.

The board, in its actions, also reportedly accepted Buss' recommendations relating to Co-op City's apartment-sales scandal, including one calling for appropriate sanctions against those who acted illegally.

As a result, it is widely assumed that Steve Gold, Co-op City's long-time director of apartment sales, will be terminated from his position.

Gold, in October, was suspended from his position when it first became known that he had probably acted illegally by giving a Cooper Place apartment to Morales.

In getting her apartment, Morales skipped over one family who had been waiting for a townhouse apartment for 12 years, Buss said, in a recently released report to members of the Riverbay board.

Also skipped over were two other members of the board, Manny “Emanuel” Torres and Ray Tirado. Torres had reportedly been waiting for a townhouse apartment since 2006, while Tirado had reportedly been waiting since 2008, a week longer than Morales.

Buss noted that state statutes clearly stipulate that failure to adhere to waiting LISTS IN Mitchell-Lama development is against the law.

In his report, Buss said, while acknowledging that there was no “hard evidence” that Morales knew that she was getting her apartment illegally, she did, in fact, get it illegally.

Buss, in his report to the board, said that he suspected that Gold didn't act alone in giving Morales the townhouse apartment that she has occupied since September.