1)Heard on the Street....
More Outsourced Fraud for NYC? More CityTime + now, SeedCo? Seedco has about $15 million in contracts with the City of New York per the NY Times. SeedCo receives a "bonus" to job place . Per the NYC Times report, Errors were found internally and Seedco performed its own audit? The City officials quickly Agreed, that 60 errors vs 400 errors were made? Again nothing irregular And they are harassing the Mr Bill Harper, for raising the issue of 400 errors? Ok, who's really cheating, apparently SeedCo has agreed to an independent audit. What about CityTime can we "do over" and audit them without corruption at every turn?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/nyregion/seedco-official-reports-fraud-in-jobs-program.html?_r=1&ref=citytime
The deputy, Bill Harper, paged through more sheets. He counted more than 400 fraudulent placements. (The city pays his agency, Seedco, a performance bonus for placements.) In April, he took his findings to his bosses at Seedco, which holds $15 million in city contracts.
Seedco quickly conducted an audit; it said it had found just 60 data errors. City officials just as quickly declared satisfaction and conducted no follow-up.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s aides are fond of saying that there has been no whiff of corruption attached to high officials. That is correct.
In keeping with a business-centered ethos, the administration’s scandals tend to be of the 21st-century variety: contracted out. From CityTime, the payroll scam that cost the city nearly $700 million, to an Education Department contractor accused of stealing $3.6 million, the problems repeat.
2) SAIC FBI CityTime Rewind
Heard on the Street:
de jay vu....City Time du....will it be scrapped and SAIC not be held accountagle again. Read the Washington Post...
"But the problems were not the FBI's alone. Because of an open-ended contract with few safeguards, SAIC reaped more than $100 million as the project became bigger and more complicated, even though its software never worked properly."
A previously unreleased audit -- completed in 2005 and obtained by The Washington Post -- found that the system delivered by SAIC was so incomplete and unusable that it left the FBI with little choice but to scuttle the effort altogether.
http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/08/saic-citytime-scandal-cover-up-silence_07.html From Suzannah: Mike are we any closer to recovering the 80 million, getting 3 people that left the USA back here in NYC, get 600 million plus damages back from SAIC, arrests SAIC and NYC Gov counterparts + sub-contractors arrest coming anytime soon and tax payer money refunded anytime soon.....?
3) NYCAPS Accenture
Under Bloomberg the most excessive spending of tax payer money on IT Information Technology that also happen to be massively over budget and allowed to run wild, including theft, fraud and we have the most dire cuts possible. Not acceptable where are the arrests.
In the Juan Gonzalez article Garnter comes up yet again and this time as a good guy vs. their sullied role doing quality control on Spherion where Gartner agrees to kick back money on what they billed Spherion who happened to be stealing 80 million. Sally Goldenberg exposed Spherion Gartner kickback but how much in total under Bloomberg have we paid Gartner and is Gartner more outrageous spending of tax payer money that could have been done by City Workers hopefully with integrity?
Why did Gino leave NYC gov.?
What a bummer NYC gov under Mike excessive spending on tech IT so much fraud, waste, excessive billing but question from an artist me, lobbyist, especially those having once served the people hardee har, do they have an obligation to speak up, step down, blow a whistle is companies they represent are running way over budget?
