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Wall Street Profits for 2014 May Not Reach 2013 Level
… period last year. This suggests that full year profits for the broker/dealer operations of New York Stock Exchange … City than before the financial crisis, totaling 162,400 jobs in August 2014. Over the past three years, the securities industry has shed 10,500 jobs in New York City, including 2,600 lost from August 2013 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/10/wall-street-profits-2014-may-not-reach-2013-levelDiNapoli: Environmental Facilities Corporation Faces Significant Funding Backlog for Essential Water Infrastructure Projects
… EFC uses these resources along with state funds to provide subsidized loans and grants to municipalities for drinking … water, wastewater treatment, and other projects, with interest and loan repayments used to finance additional projects. Between …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/04/dinapoli-environmental-facilities-corporation-faces-significant-funding-backlog-essential-waterChazy Union Free School District – Lead Testing and Reporting (S9-25-13)
… growth, causing learning and behavioral issues or causing hearing and speech problems which can lead to greater … report the results and implement necessary remediation. Testing and reporting for lead contamination began in 2016, and subsequent testing cycles have followed: Cycle One: September 6, 2016 to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/07/11/chazy-union-free-school-district-lead-testing-and-reporting-s9-25-13Wheelerville Union Free School District – Unused IT Asset Inventory (2022M-2)
… records to safeguard unused information technology (IT) assets. Key Findings District officials did not maintain … and accurate inventory records to safeguard unused IT assets. Officials did not maintain IT asset inventory records and, as a result, were unable to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2022/05/27/wheelerville-union-free-school-district-unused-it-asset-inventory-2022m-2DiNapoli: Five Fortune 500 Companies Reach Agreements on Corporate Political Spending
… proposal pending at eight other portfolio companies: Aetna Inc.; Express Scripts Holding Co.; Johnson & Johnson; …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/03/dinapoli-five-fortune-500-companies-reach-agreements-corporate-political-spendingDiNapoli: DOH Needs to Step Up Enforcement of Patient Safety Violations
… Health (DOH) has failed to hold accountable certain health care providers including hospitals, nursing homes and … Thomas P. DiNapoli. “Lisa’s Law was created to make health care in New York safer and give patients the knowledge they … generally has improved the public’s access to health care information. Too often, however, it gives negligent …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/03/dinapoli-doh-needs-step-enforcement-patient-safety-violationsIX.8.B Interest on Advance Payments to Vendors – IX. Federal Grants
… should the single payment voucher be submitted until the AR deposit has been posted in the SFS via one of the deposit …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-ix/ix8b-interest-advance-payments-vendorsMonitoring the Green Innovation Grant Program
… the end of 2016, the Corporation has awarded $135 million for 167 selected projects representing every region of the … comply with the requirement to install interpretive signs for the project. Additionally, several grantees did not … 75 percent completion window. Develop and implement a plan for post-construction monitoring of grantees’ compliance with …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2018/06/20/monitoring-green-innovation-grant-programOpinion 94-29
… publication] FEES -- Court Fees (filing fees on appeals on Family Court matters) -- Exemption From (when municipal attorney represents a presentment agency or an indigent … spouse in appeals from Family Court order) CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES, §8022; FAMILY COURT ACT, §1118: The fee …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-29DiNapoli: New York City’s Public Hospitals Need To Do More To Provide Interpretation Services
… to connect to a live operator, however. Visits to H+H mobile health vans also encountered problems. A sign at the Lower East Side mobile unit said services were available in Chinese, but … location had no bilingual staff. Staff at mobile units did not have access to phone or video …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/11/dinapoli-new-york-citys-public-hospitals-need-do-more-provide-interpretation-servicesTown of Guilderland – Information Technology (2025M-61)
… Did Town of Guilderland (Town) officials adequately secure and protect information technology (IT) assets against … Did Town of Guilderland Town officials adequately secure and protect information technology IT assets against …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/11/26/town-guilderland-information-technology-2025m-61State Comptroller DiNapoli and Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities President Brabham Op-Ed: When Federal Policy Undermines College Access, New York Pays the Price
… policy changes to lending undermines college access for students in New York: For generations, higher education has … colleges and universities educate more than 1.1 million students each year including the nurses, teachers, engineers, … But today, that ecosystem is under threat. Over 200,000 students across New York could see their education and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/12/state-comptroller-dinapoli-and-commission-independent-colleges-and-universities-president-brabham-opOpinion 94-24
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. BONDS AND NOTES -- Referendum Requirements (for bonds with proposed maturity of more than five years) REAL PROPERTY -- Purchase (procedure for financing in towns); … town hall, you ask whether a referendum is required on the bond resolution. Town Law, §220 provides that a town board …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-24Opinion 97-19
… issues discussed in the opinion. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST -- Insurance Transactions (fire district treasurer as officer and stockholder of insurance agency) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §§800(3), 801, 803; … district treasurer who is an officer and stockholder of an insurance agency with which the fire district contracts has …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-19Opinion 2008-2
… OF INTEREST -- Exceptions (contracts entered into prior to municipal service) -- Interests in Contract (town board … providing hauling services as sole proprietor) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW §§ 801, 802 (1) (h): A newly elected town board … member was elected to office, the exception in General Municipal Law § 802 (1) (h) applies and the interest is not …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2008-2Opinion 88-61
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … of the appropriate late payment interest charge. You state that thereafter the taxpayer tendered payment in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-61Opinion 94-19
… zero coupon bonds); (amount chargeable for bonds sold at discount) -- Discount Bonds (amount chargeable to debt limit); (need to … (i.e. deep discount bonds on which no periodic interest is payable) issued in 1993 is chargeable to a county's debt … Whether the face amount of zero coupon bonds ie deep discount bonds on which no periodic interest is payable …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-19Opinion 92-54
… conflict of interest under General Municipal Law, article 18 (§800 et seq .), if a bank in which the appointee … General Municipal Law, §806(1) requires the town to have a code of ethics setting forth for the guidance of its officers … or economic impropriety (see, e.g. Zagoreos v Conklin , 109 AD2d 281, 491 NYS2d 358; Matter of Tuxedo Conservation …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-54Mitchell Lama Applicants Charged $200 for Virtually No Chance of Apartment in Their Lifetime
… to collect $200 fees from applicants who had virtually no chance of getting an apartment in their lifetime, an audit released … created a risk that application fees could be misused. “My office has conducted several audits of the Mitchell Lama …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/12/mitchell-lama-applicants-charged-200-virtually-no-chance-apartment-their-lifetimeIntroduction to IT Governance – Information Technology Governance
… communicating through email and reporting to State and federal agencies. These systems and the data they hold are …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/publications/it-governance/introduction-it-governance