Tag: Scott Stringer

New York City prisons are still a disaster 40 years after the projector was built

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Records show that living conditions in New York City’s prison system remain dire — even after 40 years of federal oversight by a court-appointed monitor brought in at taxpayer expense. The Department of Corrections in the deeply troubled city came under intense scrutiny in the mid-1970s, when former trial detainees filed seven different class-action lawsuits alleging that incarceration conditions were so poor that their constitutional rights were violated. In 1982, then-Manhattan federal judge Maurice Lasker signed a settlement agreement that required the DOC to significantly improve the “environmental conditions” of…

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Monitors overseeing failing NYC agencies racked up $111M tab

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The city has shelled out at least $111 million on monitors and special masters overseeing agencies ordered to fix high-stakes failures — from horrific living conditions in public housing and jails to alleged racist practices at the NYPD, FDNY and Department of Education. The Post examined 11 ongoing cases in which most of the pricey outside overseers have amassed fortunes after being appointed by judges and government entities to ensure city agencies correct years — and sometimes decades — of malfeasance. They include: $36.9 million lawyer that Mark S. Cohen…

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Scott Stringer rips for not stripping Ben & Jerry’s

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Scott Stringer, the city’s auditor, is chilling with pro-Israel activists in New York – for failing to divest the Big Apple pension fund from Ben & Jerry’s parent company because of the Jewish state’s boycott of it. “Ben & Jerry’s can make new flavors: Marshmallow Stringer or Jelly Stringer,” Dov Hikind, a former Brooklyn House of Representative, founder of Americans Against Anti-Semitism, told The Post on Sunday. Last month, State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli announced that he withdrew $111 million in New York pension fund investments from Unilever — the parent…

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Brad Lander wins New York City Watcher race

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City Councilman Brad Lander will become the city’s next comptroller, defeating his opponents in Tuesday’s election by an overwhelming majority. Preliminary results of the Board of Elections showed that the Democrat got more than 77 percent of the vote share, while Republican Dabi Carreras got only 16 percent with 17.89 percent of the surveyors. Local cable channel NY1 called the race around 9:20 p.m. Lander won the controller race with 77 percent of the vote.Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post The left-wing lawmaker’s expected victory in the general election comes after…

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