Nonprofit payment delays

Michael Sedillo replaces Johnny Celestin as head of Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services. Johnny Celestin was there for only six months (appointed June 2024) before being replaced. Why? Joint Taskforce to Clear the Backlog Initiative Action Memo was submitted to the Mayor on February 2022. Why did the problem persist nearly three years later? What…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

Sheltering homeless can give you a $1m salary!

And that’s for those nonprofit contractors who reported the salary honestly! $916,000 for the CEO of Acacia Network Housing; more than $700,000 across multiple years for the head of Camba; $1 million for the CEO of CORE, Jack Brown — who in 2021 was also caught stacking the org’s payroll with buddies and set up for-profit vendors…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

Unionized without a voice or vote!

The single-largest successful union petition in New York this past year is not at an Amazon warehouse or a university or hospital, but at a home care agency on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Workers there did not vote to join their union, the Home Healthcare Workers of America. Instead, Anchor Home Healthcare…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

How many contracts have sidestepped bidding rules?

“It appears that DOE did not follow any procurement process before selecting Illustrative Mathematics” for its $34 million “NYC Solves” initiative, writes Sean Mulcahy, senior vice-president of New Jersey-based Savvas Learning Company in a Nov. 26 letter obtained by The Post. We know this is done. How common is this problem and how much extra taxpayers have…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

Closing Riker: Tutor Perini got a $2.9B contract

NYCDCC selected Tutor Perini and O&G Industries to build a new 1,040 bed jail in Chinatown. Cost was first projected at $8 billion to build out local jails, not will cost at least $15 billion, and counting. Closing Rikers cannot happen by 2027 since those replacement jails are not expected to complete until 2031 for…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

Mayor Adam’s NYPD: Kaz Daughtry

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry — an NYPD liaison to City Hall — made $60,000 more than the department’s top cop in 2023, thanks in part to a payroll loophole that allowed him to reap time and a half. Daughtry’s salary in 2023: $311,000. NYPD Commissioner’s salary $243,000. Candidate for City Council in 2023

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More

AFSCME seizes control of DC37 Retirees Association raised a question not answered.

How many non-profits that work or are involved with the City and State are delinquent or have not filed the required 990 form? City Hall has not switched over DC37 retirees to Medicare Advantage yet due to the Retirees Association of District Council 37 under the umbrella of American Federation of State, County and Municipal…

Candidate for City Council in 2023
Read More