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Comptroller DiNapoli & A.G. Schneiderman Announce Felony Conviction of Upstate Woman for Pension Fraud and Welfare Fraud
… of monthly pension benefits via direct deposit to a joint bank account she held at Citizens Bank with Tammy Banack. Rosemary Banack died on … 2009. Tammy Banack concealed Rosemary Banack's death from Citizens Bank and the Retirement System, in order to maintain …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/03/comptroller-dinapoli-ag-schneiderman-announce-felony-conviction-upstate-woman-pension-fraud-andDiNapoli Audit Finds MTA Needs to Strengthen Extreme Weather Preparations
… regular, timely inspections and maintenance could put its storm mitigation infrastructure at risk. At two B&T tunnels … the day Tropical Storm Fay brought gale force winds and 2.31 inches of rain recorded at JFK Airport. Officials took … On two of the other seven days — Aug. 21 and Sept. 1, 2021 — bus depots flooded, but there was no record of any …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/01/dinapoli-audit-finds-mta-needs-strengthen-extreme-weather-preparationsDiNapoli: Millions in NYC Transit Fines and Fees Uncollected
… more can still be done.” The Transit Adjudication Bureau (TAB) is a tribunal that processes and adjudicates summonses … pay and handles hearings when a summons is contested. TAB contracts out most of its functions to a vendor with … Dec. 31, 2015, Transit has paid the vendor $46.4 million. TAB’s ability to collect fines, and the fees that come with …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/08/dinapoli-millions-nyc-transit-fines-and-fees-uncollectedDiNapoli Proposes Option to Help State & Local Governments Pay for Retiree Health Care
… fund retiree health insurance and other post employment benefits (OPEB). DiNapoli estimates the unfunded OPEB … employee retires, the individual is often eligible for benefits including a pension and health insurance. While … are pre-funded and invested to help pay for these future benefits, most governments, including New York state, do not …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/04/dinapoli-proposes-option-help-state-local-governments-pay-retiree-health-careOpinion 2005-2
… of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those views …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2005-2Opinion 89-61
… of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those views …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-61Opinion 88-9
… facilities. Prior to such delegation, the town board must call and conduct a public hearing on the increase or … may be initiated without petition, the town board shall call a hearing in the manner provided by article 12 of the … and estimate have been completed, the town board then must call a public hearing and cause a notice of hearing to be …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-9Opinion 96-7
… by the participating ... districts on a ratio of full valuations of real property, or on the basis of the … may provide for apportioning the costs on the basis of full valuation of real property or, if they determine it to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-7Opinion 97-18
… in the opinion. COUNTIES -- Improvement Districts (sale of real property of a county sewer district) -- Real Property (sale of real property of county sewer district) IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS -- Real Property (sale of real property of a county sewer district) -- …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-18Opinion 92-47
… E911 surcharge moneys); (need to establish separate bank account for E911 surcharge moneys) -- Deposits and … surcharge moneys need not be segregated in a separate bank account. Interest earned on the investment of E911 surcharge … 911 (E911) System surcharge moneys in a "separate account". You also ask whether interest earned on such …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-47Opinion 93-28
… ("CHIPs") moneys appropriated by the town board for the repair and improvement of highways may be expended only in … bridges and/or highway-railroad crossings where the service life of the project is at least ten years or for any … in part, that: The moneys levied and collected for the repair and improvement of highways, . . . the moneys received …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-28Opinion 94-20
… Honorof, Esq., Village Attorney Inc. Village of Plandome Manor …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-20Opinion 94-30
… Law. The county clerk has been collecting an index fee of $165 pursuant to the first unnumbered paragraph of … the county clerk is only required to remit $95 of such fee to the State and whether, consequently, the county has … 8018 of the CPLR required a county clerk to collect a fee of $100 for the assignment of an index number to an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-30Opinion 94-28
… general fund for costs associated with advance planning to study feasibility of county-wide wastewater treatment) COUNTY … a contract with an engineering firm to conduct a study of the feasibility of providing comprehensive, … exists only one sewer district within the county. The study was undertaken pursuant to General Municipal Law (GML), …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-28Opinion 2004-5
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (annuities for volunteer firefighters) INSURANCE LAW §§9104, 9105: Foreign fire insurance tax monies may not be expended to purchase … Whether foreign fire insurance tax monies may be expended to purchase annuities …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2004-5Opinion 91-44
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time … Whether a member of the board of fire commissioners of a fire district may be …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-44DiNapoli Audit Finds Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Medicaid Payments Went to Providers Not Enrolled in the Program
An audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P DiNapoli found Medicaid managed care organizations made as much as $15 billion in improper and questionable payments to providers who did not appear to be enrolled in Medicaid
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/06/dinapoli-audit-finds-hundreds-millions-dollars-medicaid-payments-went-providers-not-enrolled-programDiNapoli: OTDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Services Provided to Those in Homeless Shelters
… of local departments of social services and homeless shelter providers to make sure those entering the shelters … per year from 2018 to 2022. Each client who enters a shelter must take part in a needs assessment and the … to be completed within the first 10 days of admission to a shelter. DiNapoli’s auditors found from January 2018 to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/08/dinapoli-otda-needs-improve-oversight-services-provided-those-homeless-sheltersDiNapoli: NYC Spending Priorities Shifted During Pandemic
… the city’s pre-pandemic and current preliminary budgets for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) to examine how spending … that emerged during the pandemic,” DiNapoli said. “Funding for education, public health and social services have risen … impacted by the pandemic, the city’s current budget for FY 2024 increased funding for education when compared to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/02/dinapoli-nyc-spending-priorities-shifted-during-pandemicDiNapoli Says Wall Street May Still Have a Good Year Given Strong Start
… Wall Street’s profits were strong in the first half of 2015 at $11.3 billion, the strongest first half since 2011, and … by 2000, and fell further to 19 percent by 2013, remaining at that level in 2014; DiNapoli estimates that in City Fiscal … Wall Streets profits were strong in the first half of 2015 at $113 billion the strongest first half since 2011 and may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/10/dinapoli-says-wall-street-may-still-have-good-year-given-strong-start