Tag: Office of the Comptroller (NYC)

NYC Spends Millions on Mental Health Street Teams. Do They Work?

New York City has poured tens of millions of dollars into a program to treat severely mentally ill people on the streets and in the subways for nearly a decade without ensuring that it was operating effectively, according to an audit made public on Wednesday by the city comptroller. The program, known as intensive mobile […]

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Ex-NYPD Detective’s Overturned Murder Convictions Have Cost New York $110 Million

A single New York City police detective accused of trying to close murder cases by concocting false witness testimony and coercing confessions has cost taxpayers $110 million in settlements to more than a dozen people whose convictions were overturned after some had spent decades in prison. People investigated by the former detective, Louis N. Scarcella, […]

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Mayor Adams’s Ability to Freely Spend Money on Migrants May Be Curtailed

As the migrant situation worsens in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is in danger of forfeiting his ability to quickly spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the crisis using his emergency powers. The city comptroller, Brad Lander, has warned the city that he may curtail the city’s power to enter emergency contracts — […]

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