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 New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) is investing $7 million (£5 million) in Northern Ireland through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI). The fund, managed by Kernel Capital, was established in 2013 by Invest Northern Ireland and Bank of Ireland to assist Northern Ireland based SMEs to accelerate growth.

Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, as Trustee of New York State Common Retirement Fund, and the Church of England co-filed a shareholder proposal at ExxonMobil in December, asking the company to assess how the worldwide effort to rein in global warming would impact its business. In response, ExxonMobil sought clearance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to block DiNapoli’s proposal from a shareholders' vote at its annual meeting. Today, the SEC rejected that request.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that five Fortune 500 companies – Coca-Cola Enterprises, Raytheon, Waste Management, Union Pacific and Centerpoint Energy – have agreed to the New York State Common Retirement Fund’s (Fund) request that they publicly report all direct and indirect corporate political spending.

As a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew shareholder proposals it had filed for consideration at each company’s annual stockholders’ meeting.

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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced his office completed audits of the Town of Hempstead Sanitary District No. 1, Niagara Falls Water Board and the City of Olean.

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New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the conviction and sentence of Richard L. Cook, III, 58, a resident of Atlanta, GA, for the crime of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, for stealing over $204,000 in state pension benefits issued to his deceased mother.

Over the past ten years, state aid to school districts has increased $6 billion to $23.3 billion in 2015-16, according to a report issued today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli which examined school aid patterns and trends in New York.

"President Trump’s decision to walk away from the Paris Agreement is a mistake, is bad policy and relegates the United States to the sidelines of the global response to climate change.