New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). Aug 15, 2002. pg. B.1
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The Bloomberg officials said that the Giuliani administration kept the mayor’s budget artificially low last year by paying many City Hall employees from the budgets of other city departments. Nearly 100 people working for various mayoral offices last year, the officials said, were paid a total of $5.3 million by other city agencies.
They said some workers in the mayor’s legislative affairs office, which serves as a liaison with the City Council, the comptroller and the borough presidents, had been paid by the Department of Finance. The Department of Environmental Protection paid at least one member of the mayor’s federal affairs office in Washington, and more than a dozen workers paid by the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications actually worked for the mayoralty, the officials said.
... Mayor Bloomberg spoke publicly about finding mayoral workers who were paid by other agencies when he released his budget plan in February. “The number before did have some people on loan,” he said then.
Administration officials said recently that they found a total of 93 mayoral workers, some of whom earned more than $100,000 a year, who were on loan from roughly 20 city agencies.
The salaries of several aides to Rudy Washington, the former deputy mayor for business services and community development, were paid by the city’s Department of Youth and Community Development, the officials said.
Sunny Mindel, a spokesman for Mr. Giuliani, declined to comment.
Nice find-—thanks.