By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-19 06:16:46 | Updated at 2024-10-19 08:38:12
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New York City shelter system beset by nepotism, excessive salaries: Report
Washington Examiner ^ | 18 Oct 2024 | staff
Posted on 10/18/2024 11:16:26 PM PDT by blueplum
(The Center Square) — New York City’s costly emergency shelter system is beset by nepotism, a lack of competitive bidding, and excessive salaries, which are driving up costs for the city’s taxpayers, according to a scathing new report.
The report by the city’s Department of Investigation said a probe of the shelter system dating back to 2021 uncovered instances of nepotism in city contracts for shelters, a failure to follow competitive bidding rules when procuring goods and services with public money and poor controls over the use of taxpayer dollars for executive compensation, among other problems. ...
Investigators found that shelter providers have hired immediate family members of senior executives and board members in violation of their city contracts. In one case, a shelter provider employed several of its CEO’s children, the report’s authors said.
The report also criticized excessive salaries paid to some nonprofit executives with city money. In one case, the chief executive of a provider called Core received more than $1 million in compensation during one year, the report said. The president and chief executive officer of Acacia Network Housing was paid more than $916,000 in 2021, while the CEO of Camba, another shelter provider, was paid $700,000....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cronyism; dei; illegals; paytoplay
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