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Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds
Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found dozens of cases where NYCHA could not document that work the agency had paid for was actually done. This article originally appeared in The City. By Greg B. Smith NEW YORK - The New York City Housing Authority did little to follow up on apartment repairs by hired vendors and in dozens of cases could not provide evidence that the work they paid for had actually been done, the city comptroller alleged Wednesday. The findings by Comptroller Brad Lander's audit team came in response to February's federal arrests of 70 NYCHA workers on charges of taking kickbacks in exchange for handing out hundreds of "micro-contracts" that don't require the rigorous and public competitive bidding protocols of larger contracts. The audit alleges NYCHA's lack of oversight of these smaller contracts allowed this corruption to flourish unnoticed for years. Announcing the takedown in February, Manhattan U.S. At
