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NYCC Joins TCC at Press Conference and Demands Immediate Action by District Attorney’s Office and NYS Attorney General
Comptroller Thomas P. Dinapoli Releases Scathing Report Detailing Mismanagement, Misappropriation and Financial Waste by Hempstead School District
On January 6 at the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, The Corridor Counts, Inc, joined by community residents and other community groups such as New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a press conference was held to unveil its people’s Indictment against school board members, administrators, unqualified employees and inappropriate and unauthorized expenditures which have been detailed by the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office, which issued its long-anticipated report in connection with its audit of the Hempstead School District for the period of July 1, 2011 through March 31, 2013.
The Corridor Counts, Inc. announced and showed names, photos and amounts of waste, all that have shortchanged the children and taxpayers of the Hempstead School District all for the benefit of district insiders. In the report, Comptroller DiNapoli’s office details the significant and questionable financial transactions by the Hempstead School District, the school board, its administrators, and school employees. The comptroller's office characterized the school district’s actions as showing a “neglect of sound fiscal and administrative practices.” Significantly, the comptroller called the district’s problems "systemic" and numerous transactions "questionable."
The comptroller indicated that individual administrators and employees received hundreds of thousands of dollars in dubious payments which they were not entitled to, including Superintendent Susan Johnson, who inexplicably received almost double her contracted salary and failed to report the overpayments to the proper authorities.
The district’s troubles were not only financial. Indeed, the school board scheduled 13 regular school board meetings, but of the total 65 meetings held during the audit period, "almost 60 percent" of that total number were held at a time or place that the “public was less likely to attend” and the board “conducted business that did not appear to be of any real urgency.” Moreover, the report details that the district’s special-education students suffered improper evaluations and the students’ services were not adequately monitored.
TCC called on the New York State attorney general and the Nassau County district attorney’s office to immediately commence criminal proceedings against those who engaged in the abuse of finances and profited on the backs of the children and hardworking taxpayers of the Hempstead School District. TCC calls for the immediate resignation of any and all school board members who had anything to do with the items detailed in the comptroller’s report and implores any persons with evidence and information to contact the Nassau County district attorney and the New York State attorney general before the opportunity to voluntarily disclose information is lost. We ask this so that there is a chance to reclaim the money stolen from the children and families of the Village of Hempstead.
The Corridor Counts, Inc. (TCC) is a collective of community advocates, teachers, laborers, public servants, youth advocates, anti-violence advocates, professionals from all areas of service, and other community members. We have joined together "to evaluate what is most needed by the communities in the Corridor and then take actions which are consistent with what is in the best interest of those communities. Our focus is to lead by bringing about change to meet the identified needs."
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