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 $700,000....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
No! What a shocker.
Homeless Industrial Complex
Monetizing the homeless
Tip of the iceberg reporting... Still nice to see a story line that doesn’t come in a DNC War room ‘news packet’... Is the Washington Examiner making a try at real journalism?
Government doing what it does best.
TONS of money in those “non-profits.” Lefties consider this “entrepreneurialism.”
Homos in the government and NGOs hiring their homo lovers for no-show jobs.
Democrat run NYC full of corruption. Just another day in Paradi$e.
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