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124 Employees To Be Let Go At Westchester School District Due To Budget Cuts, Officials Say 124 Employees To Be Let Go At Westchester School District Due To Budget Cuts, Officials Say
124 Employees To Be Let Go At Westchester School District Due To Budget Cuts, Officials Say Facing ongoing financial challenges, a Westchester County school district has announced it will lay off 124 employees at the end of the current school year.  Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Dr. K. Veronica Smith announced the upcoming layoffs on Wednesday, April 30, citing the district's current financial situation as the reason why. The layoffs will include: 84 certified staff members, such as teachers, teaching assistants, and administrators; 40 civil service employees. All layoffs will take effect at the end of the 2024–2025 school year.  "I am saddened…

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by Ben Crnic
Politics
Feds Reportedly Probing Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims, Nursing Home Deaths, Book Feds Reportedly Probing Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims, Nursing Home Deaths, Book
Feds Reportedly Probing Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims, Nursing Home Deaths, Book Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly now under federal investigation over the sexual harassment accusations that cost him his job in Albany, according to the New York Post. The Post reported that a legal services contract signed in October and released by the state Comptroller’s Office on Thursday, Dec. 2 found that Cuomo is being investigated by the feds for his administration's handling of COVID-19, its coverup of nursing home deaths, and the profits he made on his book about leadership during the pandemic. According to the report, the contract states that "DOJ has al…

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by Zak Failla
Politics
Cuomo Files Retirement Paperwork; Here's What His Annual Pension Is Expected To Be Cuomo Files Retirement Paperwork; Here's What His Annual Pension Is Expected To Be
Cuomo Files Retirement Paperwork; Here's What His Annual Pension Is Expected To Be Days before his resignation takes effect, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially filed his retirement papers to receive a $50,000 annual lifetime pension, despite being found complicit by the Attorney General’s Office of sexually harassing at least 11 women. “The governor just filed his application for service retirement. The date of retirement is Sept. 1, 2021,” a spokesperson for the state comptroller’s office said this week. Under current state law, neither resignation nor impeachment for Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment would bar the governor from receiving his lifetime pensio…

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by Zak Failla
News
Company Must Pay $3.2M For Defrauding Customers In Hudson Valley, State AG Says Company Must Pay $3.2M For Defrauding Customers In Hudson Valley, State AG Says
Company Must Pay $3.2M For Defrauding Customers In Hudson Valley, State AG Says A fuel and heating company defrauded a wide range of customers, including homeowners, school districts and local governments in the Hudson Valley of more than $1.7 million of overpayments and duplicate payments, the New York Attorney General's Office announced. Wappingers Falls-based Morgan Fuel & Heating Company, Inc., which conducts business as Bottini Fuel, must now pay more than $3.2 million in criminal restitution and civil damages following a criminal conviction, Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood and State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said. The conviction was for falsif…

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by Joe Lombardi