Sentences with phrase «city investigations commissioner»

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«IBM and Verizon, by their silence, facilitated this fraud,» Richard Condon, special commissioner of investigation for the city's schools, concluded in the report.

Donna Myrill, who heads the Queens district attorney's treatment court programs, will be investigations commissioner; Robert Cleary, a city health department chief contract officer, will be procurement compliance director; and Charles Campisi, a retired NYPD internal affairs chief, will be corrections commissioner.

His new DCAS commissioner has put a hold on all deed restriction changes and the matter is being looked into by the city's Department of Investigation and Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Mayor de Blasio knew as early as last Wednesday that the city's Correction Department was under investigation for allegedly spying on other probers looking into a travel scandal involving his agency commissioner.

Richard Condon, the school system's special commissioner of investigation, found that Verizon was in on an alleged overbilling scheme that cost the city's schools $ 3.6 million.

Joseph Ponte, the city's new correction commissioner, started his job recently, the report noted, and «was not present when the misconduct» found by the investigation had occurred.

Ms. Calhoun, 53, has been the acting commissioner of the state's Department of Transportation since August, and her background could help Mr. Cuomo with one of the biggest headaches of his current term — the deterioration of New York City's subway system, which was the subject of a New York Times investigation this weekend.

The head of a NYC Council watchdog committee has accused City Hall's top lawyer of carrying out a political vendetta against the city's investigations commissioner on behalf of de Blasio, marking a sharp escalation in a three - sided power struggle among different arms of city governmCity Hall's top lawyer of carrying out a political vendetta against the city's investigations commissioner on behalf of de Blasio, marking a sharp escalation in a three - sided power struggle among different arms of city governmcity's investigations commissioner on behalf of de Blasio, marking a sharp escalation in a three - sided power struggle among different arms of city governmcity government.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has stopped the city from paying the former correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, $ 24,000 in compensation for unused vacation days, citing the possibility of further investigations related to his improper use of city vehicles, his office said.

City Councilman Ritchie Torres accused the mayor and his top lawyer of a vendetta against the investigations commissioner.

Subsequently, she was the first deputy commissioner in NYC's Department of Investigation, the city agency charged with investigating corruption and fraud.

The city's correction commissioner is fighting to keep union boss Norman Seabrook in power — because the labor boss is so distracted by a federal corruption investigation, he has no time to advocate for his members, according to a union challenger.

Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, who heads the City Council's newly created Committee on Oversight and Investigations, is looking to enact a new law that would prohibit de Blasio from firing Mark Peters, the DOI's commissioner, unless the City Council approves the move first.

He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.

He has also had to contend with constant oversight and openly critical assessments from the NYPD's new inspector general, as well as the city's Department of Investigation commissioner, who are mayoral appointees.

The commissioner promoted him over the objections of the city's Department of Investigation, The Times found.

The city comptroller's office has stopped the city from paying the former correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, $ 24,000 in compensation for unused vacation days, citing the possibility of further investigations related to his improper use of city vehicles, his office said on Tuesday.

The company the department paid $ 75 million to do technical work on its purchasing, payroll and finance systems — Future Technology Associates — bilked the city out of at least $ 6.5 million, according to a report by Richard Condon, the city's special commissioner of investigation.

A special counsel to Cuomo as attorney general, she is a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan, former first deputy commissioner in New York City's Department of Investigation and was first deputy district attorney in Westchester County.

Glenwood was previously connected to a complaint involving former New York City finance commissioner Martha Stark, according to a Department of Investigations report.

«This conviction ends Larry Seabrook's power to channel the flow of taxpayer funds to himself, his family and his cronies,» Rose Gill Hearn, commissioner for the City Department of Investigation, said in a statement.

The city Investigation Department, which routinely vets appointments to high - level municipal positions, recommended that Mr. Ponte not promote William Clemons, a veteran correction official whom the commissioner wanted to make his chief of department, the highest uniformed position.

At the same time, with Eure in a chain of command that leads to the commissioner of investigation and then to City Hall, Mayor de Blasio must give a fully independent, highly respected party authority to conduct a parallel inquiry.

It began with a Department of Investigation report in November saying she had knowingly falsified federal reports about inspections for lead paint, and DOI commissioner Mark Peters later accused Olatoye of misleading the City Council in February when she testified under oath about the training NYCHA employees received to do lead paint inspections.

Torres told Observer that journalism «is under siege» from both the federal government and City Hall, pointing to the Mayor Bill de Blasio's refusal to release emails between himself and outside advisers he has dubbed «agents of the city» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissioCity Hall, pointing to the Mayor Bill de Blasio's refusal to release emails between himself and outside advisers he has dubbed «agents of the city» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissiocity» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissioner.

The New York City School District's special commissioner of investigation since 1990, he has...

Cizek cites December 1999 charges by Edward Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigation for the public schools, that 52 teachers and administrators had assisted students in cheating on standardized tests.

The best part is that one of the physicians involved in the anthrax investigation was actually the City's health commissioner.