Sentences with phrase «scathing audit»
The expression "scathing audit" refers to a harsh, severe or highly critical assessment or examination of something, particularly a company, organization, or process. It implies that the findings of the audit were highly negative and uncovered significant flaws, shortcomings, or wrongdoing. Full definition
Last week, Cuomo, who has feuded with the mayor at every turn, told the Observer that the comptroller's scathing audits of his economic development programs were not valid given his background as a state assemblyman, despite the fact that he appointed DiNapoli to oversee the city's homeless shelter system.
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In notes appended to DOH's response, the Comptroller's office — which has issued several scathing audits on the Cuomo administration's spending on promotional programs for tourism, the Start - Up NY program and more — says that «it is somewhat ironic that officials question the use of promotional activities to generate program interest and revenues given the State's extensive use of media to promote a range of perceptions and initiatives.»
This year the Missouri legislature failed to pass a bill, HB 1004, discussed more fully below, that would have increased regulations for the puppy mill industry. Scathing audits in 2001 and 2004 and recently in 2008 of Missouri's commercial dog breeding inspection programs revealed virtually non-existent enforcement of the state's current animal care laws, the Animal Care Facilities Act, RSMo,  §  § 273.325 -.357 and 2 CSR 30 -9.010-.030.
Comptroller Scott Stringer released a scathing audit Wednesday that found unsatisfactory conditions at 549 of the 788 playgrounds maintained by the problem - plagued New York City Housing Authority.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has released a scathing audit of the Tonawanda Housing Authority.
In 1999, the program was the subject of a scathing audit report by the HUD Inspector General's office, which recommended that it be terminated.
A lawsuit brought by the Buffalo Urban League, which took the unusual step in April of suing Erie County after a scathing audit by the county comptroller, has been dismissed.
On Tuesday, Scott Stringer released a scathing audit finding that the MTA's Access - A-Ride vehicles are too often late, or don't show up at all, thanks in part to inadequate oversight on the part of the MTA.
MANHATTAN — A scathing audit says the MTA and New York City Transit are on the wrong track when it comes to diversions related to subway work, with millions in cost overruns and an increasing number of changes.
The public wasn't sufficiently outraged (possibly because they liked his scathing audits of various agencies and authorities during the Pataki years) and re-elected the comptroller in November, 2006.
A survey of 156 of the city's more than 1,000 poll sites during last year's elections found 90 percent with serious problems — including poorly trained staff who routinely bungled ballots, according to a scathing audit released Friday.
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer released a scathing audit finding that the MTA's Access - A-Ride vehicles are too often late, or don't show up at all, thanks in part to inadequate oversight on the part of the MTA.
A struggling Brooklyn hospital group bled as much as $ 1.3 million by issuing a no - bid contract to upgrade its information - technology services, a scathing audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office found.
DiNapoli's look into shelters statewide outside of New York City follows a scathing audit he released in February that slammed what he found to be the state's failure to properly monitor and inspect shelters.
A survey of 156 of the city's more than 1,000 poll sites during last year's elections found 90 percent with serious problems — including poorly trained staff who routinely bungled ballots, according to a scathing audit from NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer.
The scathing audit on the handling of approximately $ 60 million in deals concluded that, «there is limited assurance that the MVIDA projects have met their performance goals and benefited taxpayers.»
Go here for a look at the scathing audit of USDA inspections of puppy mills and pending federal legislation to try to improve conditions for dogs trapped in the pet trade.
PUPS Act is the name appropriately given to federal legislation proposed during the 2009 - 2010 Congressional session in the wake of the scathing audit by the Office of Inspector General that condemns USDA's lax enforcement of regulations that apply to puppy mills.
This came after he resigned from the executive director position following a scathing audit that detailed the misspending of tax dollars.