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DiNapoli: Pennsylvania Man Who Impersonated Deceased Father to Steal $194K in NYS Pension and Social Security Payments Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
… benefits intended for his deceased father. His behavior is unacceptable, and this sentence holds him accountable for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/02/dinapoli-pennsylvania-man-who-impersonated-deceased-father-steal-194k-nys-pension-and-social-securityOpinion 93-1
… on the issues discussed in the opinion. COUNTY ATTORNEY -- Assistant (entitlement to salary fixed for county attorney in … event of a vacancy) COUNTY LAW, §§401(3), 502, 526(1): An assistant county attorney or a deputy county clerk, treasurer … of this Office. In that opinion, we concluded that an assistant county attorney, who becomes acting county attorney …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-1State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… recommendations. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) – Bus Company: Fare Evasion (2019-S-7) MTA officials did not provide assurance that Fare Enforcement … its four special funds in 2019 — the Uninsured Employers Fund, the Special Fund for Disability Benefits, the Second …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/06/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-auditsMedicaid Program – Oversight of Social Adult Day Care Programs
… managed long-term care plans to ensure social adult day care program services met program standards. The audit … Services (HCBS), which encompass Social Adult Day Care (SADC). SADC has been a covered MLTC service since … managed longterm care plans to ensure social adult day care program services met program standards …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2026/02/06/medicaid-program-oversight-social-adult-day-care-programsNew York’s Balance of Payments in the Federal Budget: Federal Fiscal Year 2019
… Message from the Comptroller November 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Yorkers have seen how the immense fiscal resources of the federal government can help everyday Americans in times of real need. Unfortunately, we have also seen how myths and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/new-yorks-balance-payments-federal-budget-federal-fiscal-year-2019State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… of Agriculture and Markets: Oversight of Industrial Hemp (2018-S-32) The department’s program has rapidly expanded opportunities for industrial hemp production in the state. However, the department does …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/12/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits-0Opinion 91-31
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … exists in any county or the vicinity thereof and the New York State Commissioner of Health so certifies to the health …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-31DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… did not properly oversee village operations. Officials do not know the amount of cash available to fund operations, the … individuals, it lacked a policy or contract stating what amount should be reimbursed, when payments are due and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/02/dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits-0Opinion 91-64
… which you provided, the State Education Department and the Comptroller's Office have historically approved for … each for a separate route, are let to the same individual and neither of such contracts so let is in excess of the … as well as the aforementioned opinion of this Office and determine whether it is consistent with our current view …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-64Opinion 94-1
… a portion of the salaries of county employees who perform services for the administration and operation of a county … to the cost of establishing a district an allowance for services rendered by salaried town employees when such services are necessary to or occasioned by reason of making …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-1Opinion 90-23
… discussed in the opinion. BONDS AND NOTES -- Debt Limit (exclusion from - cities of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse) … article 8, §6 of the State Constitution which provides an exclusion from the debt limitation imposed upon the cities of … territory. Thus, article 8, §6 provides an additional debt exclusion for the cities of Rochester and Buffalo in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-23Opinion 96-23
… TOWNS -- Liability (for court fees) CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES, §8017: Section 8017 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules does not grant a broad exemption to towns, or other … most natural and obvious sense and that words of ordinary import are to be construed according to their ordinary and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-23Opinion 92-2
… to pay amounts due under contract for hydrants serving a zone) FIRE HYDRANTS -- Fire Districts (authority to use … to pay amounts due under contract for hydrants serving a zone); (authority to budget amounts due for preceding and … a contract for the use of hydrants which serve only a zone within the district. Under the facts presented, the fire …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-2Opinion 91-5
… on the issues discussed in the opinion. BONDS AND NOTES -- Debt Service (payment of on town obligations in coterminous … indebtedness after the incorporation of a village which is coterminous with the town. Indebtedness of the town which … indebtedness after the incorporation of a village which is coterminous with the town. You also ask what portion, if …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-5DiNapoli: New York Must Do More To Reduce Maternal Deaths
… The New York State Department of Health (DOH) needs to do more to ensure maternal deaths and … DiNapoli. While DOH has made progress to improve maternal health, federal and state health data shows pregnancy-related health conditions and … The New York State Department of Health DOH needs to do more to ensure maternal deaths and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/08/dinapoli-new-york-must-do-more-reduce-maternal-deathsOpinion 92-22
… -- Contracts (representation of owners of property located outside municipality in assessment review … (village comptroller representing owners of property located outside village in assessment review proceedings) … practice limited to representing the owners of property located outside the village without violating article 18 of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-22Opinion 93-2
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. REFERENDUM -- Change in Fiscal Year (timing of proposition in village) VILLAGES -- Fiscal Year (timing of proposition to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-2Opinion 90-52
… report of examination) TOWN LAW, §§30, 63, 64(11-b); PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW, §106; GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §35: … in the minutes of a town board meeting the name of each member of the board who is present, the clerk is under no … see also Public Officers Law, §106[3], relative to the availability of the minutes to the public). Although the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-52Opinion 89-31
… the issues discussed in the opinion. ELECTIONS -- Recall Election (authority of city voters to petition) REFERENDUM-- Recall Election (authority of city voters to petition) CHARTERS -- City Charters (right to hold recall election) LOCAL LAWS -- Recall Election (authority of city to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-31Opinion 93-25
… under the mistaken belief the right-of-way was a village street may not continue to provide such lighting unless the … right-of-way if the right-of-way has become a village street by prescription or public use. The village's provision … 806; Catskill v DeCicco , 2 Misc 2d 942, 147 NYS2d 756; 21 Opns St Comp, 1965, p 450). The provision of lighting may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-25