The estimated value of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) was $291.4 billion at the end of the second quarter of State Fiscal Year 2025-26, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today. Fund investments returned an estimated 4.13% for the quarter and 9.82% for the first six months of the fiscal year.
Local government sales tax collections totaled $18.2 billion from January to September 2025, an increase of 4.3% ($747 million) compared to the same period last year, according to the quarterly sales tax report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Growth so far this year is higher than the 3.8% average growth rate seen from January to September for the 2010 to 2019 period of recovery and expansion following the Great Recession.
A new report from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found the frequency of severe weather in the state is growing, taking a toll on New York’s residents, property and economy. While New York is investing to reduce those impacts through the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Bond Act, DiNapoli warned that the federal government should expand its funding and efforts, not claw back funds and leave states and communities vulnerable to extreme weather and flooding.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government and school audits were issued.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today the following audits have been issued.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government and school audits were issued.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced that on Thursday, October 30, 2025, Rohail Raja, age 45, and his wife, Sharma Alam, age 45, both of the Town of New Windsor, were arrested and charged with Grand Larceny in the First Degree in connection with a scheme to defraud the New York State Medicaid program of millions of dollars.
Jonnell Rose, the former Treasurer of the Vernon Center Fire Department, was sentenced to serve one to three years in state prison and ordered to pay full restitution for stealing more than $300,000 from the department, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Oneida County District Attorney Todd Carville, and the New York State Police Superintendent Steven G. James announced today. Rose pled guilty to the sole count in the indictment, grand larceny in the second degree, in August.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government and school audits were issued.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, wrote to fellow Tesla Inc. shareholders urging them to reject Elon Musk’s trillion dollar proposed pay package for a lack of defined goals and to vote against all directors standing for reelection at Tesla’s Nov. 6 Annual Meeting, citing their failure to provide independent oversight and accountability.
