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State Comptroller’s Office

Mount Vernon, NY
Schools
124 Employees To Be Let Go At Mount Vernon School District Due To Budget Cuts, Officials Say 124 Employees To Be Let Go At Mount Vernon School District Due To Budget Cuts, Officials Say
124 Employees To Be Let Go At Mount Vernon 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
Rivertowns, NY
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
Mt. Kisco, NY
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
Stony Point, NY
News
Ex-Town Clerk In Area Admits To Embezzling Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Ex-Town Clerk In Area Admits To Embezzling Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars
Ex-Town Clerk In Area Admits To Embezzling Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars The former town clerk for an area town has pleaded guilty to grand larceny after embezzling more than 21,000 from the town coffers. Jolene Roy, 45, of Pine Bush, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 13, to grand larceny and tampering with public records in the Town of Crawford, said the Orange County District Attorney's Office. At the time she pleaded guilty, Roy admitted that between May 1, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2018, she embezzled funds from Crawford that she had received as town clerk. She also admitted making false entries in town records to conceal the thefts.  An investigation&nb…

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by Kathy Reakes
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
Politics
These Westchester Towns Annually Rack Up Millions In Traffic, Parking Violations These Westchester Towns Annually Rack Up Millions In Traffic, Parking Violations
These Westchester Towns Annually Rack Up Millions In Traffic, Parking Violations Westchester's smallest municipal courts aren't so small -- when it comes to collecting money. In fact, the county's 35 town and village courts average nearly $1 million in annual fines and fees for traffic violations and parking tickets. And three of the Westchester municipalities rank among the state's top 10  "high-enforcement" regions of New York. Harrison, Port Chester and Greenburgh rank among the top 10 municipalities statewide in annual fines collected from tickets, according to the state Comptroller's Office.  This ranking did not include court revenue totals for the citi…

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by Jon Craig
Mount Pleasant, NY
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