IDA's in New York's communities seek to generate economic activity and help private businesses grow and expand. The importance of economic development in our state demanded that we come up with better methods to evaluate IDAs and the projects that are receiving tax breaks.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the unsealing of a one-count indictment charging Richard L. Cook III, 57, a resident of Atlanta, Ga., with the crime of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, a class C felony, in Albany County Court. Cook is charged with stealing over $200,000 in pension payments from the New York State and Local Employees Retirement System paid to his deceased mother, Yvonne Powell, a New York State pensioner who died in 2009.
Former Riverside clerk-treasurer Kristina Johnson was sentenced to jail time for repeatedly stealing village funds to cover her household expenses, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today. Johnson was sentenced to 60 days in jail, five years probation and ordered to pay full restitution of $50,000 to the village.
“Too many public servants confuse the public purse with their own,” DiNapoli said. “Thanks to my partnership with District Attorney Brooks Baker, Ms. Johnson is going to jail and will repay taxpayers.”
ROCHESTER – Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the guilty plea of Robert Wiesner, the former Security Director for the Monroe County Water Authority, for working with others to rig the bidding process for a multi-million dollar public works contract in Monroe County. Wiesner today entered a guilty plea before The Honorable Dennis M.
The number of jobs, businesses and people living in Washington Heights and Inwood have reached record levels, but low household incomes and a shortage of affordable housing are challenges, according to an economic snapshot released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The report is part of a series by DiNapoli examining economic issues across the five boroughs.
Total receipts through the first three quarters of state fiscal year 2015-16 totaled approximately $111.9 billion, $230.6 million higher than the Division of the Budget’s (DOB) latest projections, according to the monthly state cash report issued today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Total spending of $104.9 billion over the period was $1 billion below initial projections.
“The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision today grants same-sex marriages the dignity, equality and respect they deserve. We need to continue the fight to ensure equal protection in the workplace and beyond, but today's victory is truly historic and worthy of celebration."
Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York City Department of Investigation (NYC DOI) Commissioner Mark Peters today announced that Dorothy Ogundu, a nonprofit executive convicted for pocketing taxpayer dollars intended for public services and capital improvements in New York City, was sentenced to one to three years in state prison.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today released two audits revealing more than $70 million in questionable Medicaid claims and payments. DiNapoli’s auditors found the state reimbursed providers for excessive services, including 41 dental exams for one patient over three years and identified about a dozen providers that should have been kicked out of the system for wrongdoing.
The number of counties overriding New York’s property tax cap has declined by more than half over the past four fiscal years, dropping from 15 in 2012 to only six in 2015, according to a report issued today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The report also noted that the counties’ average tax levy increase has remained at or below 2 percent in each of the past four years.
