Our current New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli cracks down on Roosevelt Island Corp. for wasting taxpayers' money. Roosevelt Island Corp. is a public-benefit corporation created by the State in 1984, and has not been doing exactly what it has been originally created to do. The audit has found Roosevelt Island Corp. employees guilty of spending taxpayer's money on personal purchases such as from iTunes, Best Buy, and on unspecified trainings and conferences. Roosevelt Island Corp. CEO Charlene Indelicato publicly stated that the company will tighten up its procedures for future transactions and that there will only be one corporate credit card that will remain in the hands of the executive management. However, there has yet to be any statements about reprimanding the guilty employees.
Comptroller DiNapoli has served since 2007 and it is his responsibility to make sure that taxpayers' money is going into the right government programs and to keep it from going into wasteful spending. He has had a successful record for holding government accountable and this newest case is going to help boost the image of his reelection campaign even more because it shows that he has been doing a great job thus far.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/04/dinapoli-rips-roosevelt-island-corp-for-wasteful-spending/
According to howstuffworks.com, a comptroller "ensures that the state's tax dollars are being well-spent and not wasted through fraud and abuse." DiNapoli is evidently doing his job as a comptroller very well!
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I agree that DiNapoli has proven that he is capable of doing his job. If we publicize his efforts to combat corruption, we can make sure that he gets elected and dispel some of the shadows that have fallen on the entire Democratic ticket because of Cuomo's corruption scandal. While Bob Antonacci hasn't done anything necessarily bad for the people, he hasn't done anything good either.
ReplyDeleteSince Americans are especially weary about what their tax dollars are going towards this can definitly help DiNapoli get those votes. As both a student and a part time worker, I definitley do not want to see my taxpayer money going towards someone's Itunes playlist. Knowing that DiNapoli is doing his job as comptroller is reassuring to the citizens of New York.
ReplyDeleteThis achievement by DiNapoli will definitely get him re-elected because stories like this will make the headlines and affect the public. If a comptroller does his job without doing anything major, that comptroller is an okay comptroller. But if comptrollers crack down on big businesses, they are considered really good comptrollers. Nothing is more important than the taxpayer's money.
ReplyDeleteI believe that corruption is a serious problem in the government. the problem is the budget is so big that no one really notices or cares when a bit goes missing. I believe there has to be more rigorous inspections of how government money is being spent and that guilty parties should be fired.
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