Joel Bondy, N.Y.C. Payroll Office Chief, Is Suspended - NYTimes.com: "The official in charge of the New York City agency at the heart of an alleged $80 million information technology fraud scheme was suspended on Thursday without pay by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller John C. Liu.
The official, Joel Bondy, was chosen by Mr. Bloomberg to be the executive director of the Office of Payroll Administration in April 2004. But the payroll agency has been repeatedly criticized for its handling of the CityTime project, an automated system devised to streamline employee timekeeping, which has been dogged by delays and enormous cost overruns.
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors accused several CityTime consultants — at least one of them a longtime associate of Mr. Bondy — of being involved in a scheme that manipulated the city into steering expensive contracts to businesses that they controlled, and of redirecting some of that money for their own enrichment.
The investigation is still continuing, city officials said, and could lead to more arrests. But the scandal has become one of the most serious that the Bloomberg administration has faced. And by casting a pall over an initiative that the mayor had championed as a hallmark of efficient, computerized management, the case does little to help the opinion of the administration’s outsourcing practices."
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