Search

Former Treasurer of Patterson Fire Department Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Embezzlement and Filing False Tax Returns

… Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that … U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Roman to 33 months in prison for fraud and tax charges arising out of his embezzlement of … MELIN failed to report this income on his personal return for 2014 and falsely reported some of the embezzled funds as …

Unified Court System Bulletin No. UCS-335

… processed automatically. Affected Employees:  Employees in the following bargaining units who meet the eligibility … employees with a Comp Rate Code of ANN who are in a graded position (Grade 508-536). Employees with a Comp Rate Code of ANN who are in an NS position (Grade 560). Employees in Bargaining Unit …

State Police Bulletin No. SP-234

… Affected Employees: Division of State Police employee in the State Police Investigators Unit (BCI) – BU62 who meet … 2022 State Police Holiday Bonus Payment will be processed in a separate check in the Administration Pay Period 17L/18C, paychecks dated …

State Police Bulletin No. SP-239

… Affected Employees: Division of State Police employees in the State Police Investigators Unit (BCI) – BU62 who meet … 2023 State Police Holiday Bonus Payment will be processed in a separate check in the Administration Pay Period 17L/18C, paychecks dated …

SUNY Bulletin No. SU-365

… CAL and CYF Employees. Affected Employees: SUNY employees in Salary Grade 980 positions with a Comp Rate Code of CYF and CAL are affected. Background: In any fiscal year in which February consists of 28 days, the biweekly salary …

Unified Court System Bulletin No. UCS-359

… and to provide instructions for reporting transactions in Administration Pay Period 20C. Affected Employees: Judges … salary based on the number of calendar days served in the calendar year for Judges or Justices who serve only … applicable, an adjustment of regular earnings must be paid in the final paycheck of the calendar year. Effective Dates: …

Leaves of Absence and Service Credit – Special 20- and 25-Year Plans

… A member’s service credit only accumulates for any period of time you receive earnings, therefore no service credit is given for the following: Leaves of absence without pay; Authorized, … Leave Act. Tier 2, 3, 5 and 6 members receive half credit for sick leave at half pay. …

XI.14.B Publication of Grants Opportunities – XI. Procurement and Contract Management

… Development (DED) will publish grant opportunities in the Contract Reporter. In addition, publication of grant opportunities in the State Register will also constitute “substantial …

XI.3 Submission of Agency Purchase Orders – XI. Procurement and Contract Management

XIV.14.I Treatment of Infrastructure Assets – XIV. Special Procedures

… Infrastructure consists of roads, bridges, curbs and gutters, streets, sidewalks, drainage … are immovable and of value only to the State.  Roads and bridges maintained by the Department of Transportation are … State will not report depreciation expense for roads and bridges but will capitalize all costs that add to the …

Exclusion of Indebtedness for Sewage Facilities

… of indebtedness contracted for sewage facilities. Memo Bill Text Status …

Common Attributes of Successful Emerging Managers

… Common attributes to forming a successful Emerging Manager Strategy: Years of team’s operating experience Years of team’s prior institutional asset manager experience Tenure … Attributes of successful newly formed and emerging firms …

Oversight of the Agricultural Assessment Program

… The New York Agricultural Districts Law was enacted in 1971 to protect and promote the availability of land for … The law allows reduced property tax bills for land in agricultural production by limiting the property tax … enrolled properties. Key Findings We identified an error in an ORPTS calculation in 2006 that caused subsequent years’ …

Oversight of Undistributed Child Support Funds

… support programs help enhance the well-being of children in many ways, including by enforcing child support … local social services district offices (districts) located in New York City and the State’s 57 other counties (the five … to the payer or deposited with the County Treasurer or, in New York City, the Commissioner of Finance. Funds that …

Examination of Pitts Management Associates (PMA)

… executing contracts without prior approval from OSC. In December 2013, Downstate replaced contract CM00939 with … RAP that would help Downstate achieve financial stability. In December 2015, PMA reported cumulative savings of $138 … implementation of the cost-saving improvements identified in the RAP. We also found that for select areas, PMA did not …

Examination of Island Peer Review Organization

… expenses the Department of Health (Department) made to Island Peer Review Organization (IPRO) under contract … $180,000 in out-of-pocket expenses. Our objective was to determine whether these subcontractor expenses were in … Department entered into a $79 million contract with IPRO to provide services related to Medicaid activities. This …

Administration of Non-Competitive and Limited-Competition Contracts

… contracts with some vendors that had poor performance. In fact, 12 sampled contract vendors received … totaled $114.1 million. For 9 of the 12 vendors, children in their care were abused by employees or foster parents. Consequently, in some cases, the health and safety of children were placed …

Accuracy of Reported Discharge Data (Follow-Up)

… whether the New York City Department of Education (DoE) was accurately reporting the number of students … the New York State Education Department. We found that DoE classified some students as discharged without sufficient … a discharge classification. Specifically, when we examined DoE’s discharge classifications for its 2004-08 general …

Review of Trivision Tek Group, Inc.

… Purpose The objective of our examination was to determine whether payments made by the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) to Trivision Tek Group, Inc. (Trivision) under Grant … Senate majority leader John Sampson. Trivision was hired to provide consulting services for the Medicaid Data …

COLA – Child Center of New York

… (DOH) to the Child Center of New York was properly spent in accordance with the COLA Guidance for Submitting Claims … Key Findings Of the $15,538 we examined, we found $5,756 in overpayments for unallowable and unsupported expenses and $1,970 in noncompliant expenses paid outside the applicable budget …