FDNY Probe Way Too Costly: Mike
In a letter filed with Judge Nicholas Garaufis yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg cited mounting bills from a court-appointed monitor scrutinizing the FDNY's minority-hiring practices and asked that the city be allowed to review any charge that it deems exorbitant.
NY Post - June 07, 2012
by MITCHEL MADDUXIn a letter filed with Judge Nicholas Garaufis yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg cited mounting bills from a court-appointed monitor scrutinizing the FDNY's minority-hiring practices and asked that the city be allowed to review any charge that it deems exorbitant.
"There appears to be a great deal of wastefulness in the approach to this case," wrote city attorney Michael Cardozo.
Bloomberg said monitor Mark Cohen, an ex-federal prosecutor, has charged more than $300,000 for each of the two-month billing periods since he began, which would equal "approximately $2 million a year" for oversight expected to last at least a decade.
