Peninsula Prep Charter Closing Follow-Up From Leonie

This is an important supplement filling in some gaps on my previous post where I forgot all about Victory's role -- they pulled out loads of money from the school (and our wallets) for management fees.

And a comment came in on the previous post making another important connection to the location of the charter and how it was connected to the massive Arverne by the Sea which I believe owned the trailers where the school was located.

Just as shady, is the issue of locating the school close to Arverne By the Sea as a selling perk for Smith's real estate buddy. Wonder how many buyers that lured?!?!?!

Leonie Haimson, who takes a good shot at Michael Duffy (and Anna Philips for quoting him but leaving out how much money his company made off Peninsula Prep) who was a Tweed Troll for years and used his position to get a job paying him a lot of money (let's make a ban on this as an addition to ed law) to nycednews listserve:

I really have no idea what the underlying motivation of DOE might be here; but according to their own (unreliable) accountability system, a school like Peninsula Prep w/ three "Cs" is vulnerable to closing -- and I believe other regular public schools in that category have been closed.

In Oct. I made a list and and discussed the various charters vulnerable to closing on the basis of their grades on the progress reports:

Note the five charters in light yellow; these are authorized by the NYC Chancellor, and thus can be closed by DOE. Who knows why they picked on Peninsula but did not close the others?

The DOE's decisionmaking remains totally obscure to me, but remember also that 

Peninsula Prep paid large management fees to Victory -- 23% of per pupil funding acc. to GS --  and has been involved in lots of scandals, as Norm notes -- though none of this is mentioned in the DOE report that advised against renewing its charter. 

My question is this: why did Anna Phillips of the NYT quote Michael Duffy, former head of the DOE charter office, who now works at Victory, as an independent observer on the implications of the school's closing, w/out mentioning the financial connection between the Victory & Peninsula Prep?  Did they dissolve their relationship?  In any case, this should have been mentioned.

Or did I miss something?  I have read through the article twice now and don't see the connection mentioned.