Payroll fraud?

[Dennis Dillion]

Since NYC only receives a $400 property rebate this year, we approved Mike's request for authority to sign payroll sheets for "no Shows".

It seemed unfair to have these NYC people have to comute back and forth (Most in county SUV's) in bad traffic or face the problems vacation travel and not be able to collect significants sums from the county.

Therefore, DCE Klein can sign any time sheet he wants. This is to be called a "Klein Perk" for his NYC followers.

[Peter Schmidt]

George W.'s guys in immigration sent copies of a pass port for out of country travel for a non benefit NYC employee who was supposidly paid by Klein.

I feel much better knowing that we can close out this inquiry using this new category "Klein perk - for NYC employees only".

Thanks Dennis, communication among our groups is important to prevent bad press during election season.

[Howard Weitzman]

How come Deputy County Executive Michael Klein is signing payroll time sheets for people who are not on the job????????????

Must be a NYC practice?

[Observer]

Sounds like business as usual per the Sunday times LI section article.
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[9 to 5]

As a Nassau county resident and a seasonal worker, I would like Dennis Dillion to approve the Klein Perk for my categorey.

Mike please sign my time sheet for Thanksgiving week when I'll be traveling. As I understand the Klein Perk,
-even though I have no vacation time I get paid anyway. Sounds good to me, especially since I'm only getting tax increases this year, no rebates for Nassau County guys and gals.

[Kleinite]

I put up with Klein and commute all the way from NYC.

I took this job with Klein even though Klein mis-represented its status to me.

When I fly abroad he owes me so he signs that I am full time in Nassau county.

This is no worse than any of the other tricks that Mike uses behind Suozzi's back.

[BOE]

Klein stole the idea from commisshioner Stein at the BOE. Stein perks have been in existance at the BOE for the non-resident hacks since he took office. Stein perks, Klein perks, who cares- its Suozzi style creative payrolls, and helps him for Suozzi 2006 for Gov. Thats all that matters.
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[Howard]

Thanks BOE you were a big help. Now I understand.

No-shows for full time and seasonal workers are a fact of life in this administration. Provided that you promise to work on thw 2006 governors race and are a NYC resident. "Klein perks and Stein perks" you got to love these guys.

[Stein and Klein]

The next thing you guys will want the leg to approve is Klein and Stein perks!!!!

No way.

[Steins Crimes]

What goes on at the BOE is disgraceful. Remember how Stein got his job at the BOE. The former deputy was fired for refusing to sign time sheets for two employees (neither of whom live in Nassau County). Then Souzzi and Jacobs forced the last commissioner to resign over it. Do you think they approve of this practice.

[Kleins crimes]

political operatives stand over klein with a Tasser and make him sign NYC time sheets. poor mike, its lonely at the top.

[so this is it?]

follow the cash and low lifes are at the other end.

[kleins death wish]

these guy has real problems, a little forced vacation and rehab will do him good.

[republican1]

Values count in Nassau county.

The look the other way, see no evil excuses of this administration is not right and will be counted in future election.

Values count and misappropriating county funds is one of the fatal flaws.

[What is happening]

How many of the new Suozzi crop pf managers took vacations only a few months after the start of their employment? No CT allowed and no time built up and they take two weeks off?

Suozzi and his thugs are all payroll liars.
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[timesheet]

people reporting working hours on their timesheets even when they were home sleeping happens in every department by at least one Suozzi appointee. Suozzi's people- republican,democrat, nyc residents, nassau residents, or folk residents have taken the term "no-show" to a new level. This ripping off of taxpayers is a disgusting practice and worse now compared to any former Republican administration. Stay tuned fora list of names.

This is one rock Weitzman will never look under. The findings will sink the top of the 2005 ticket leaving Howard out of a job too.

[Ordinance 5431995]

Ordinance 543-1995 permits any employees that transferred from a state or municipal government job to continue in their same pension. That was it's purpose. Back in the Gulotta day there were hardly any people coming to Nassau from other governments because he followed the Nassau County residency guidelines, but when the occasional State worker came to the County to work, the purpose of the ordinance was really so they wouldn't lose their benefits from the pension. It was intended for compliance with state law. It was also meant so that if you worked for Nassau County before, and left for a year to make some money doing something else, and came back to Nassau County within a year, you wouldn't have lost any time as a Nassau County employee. It was like taking a sabbatical.

Now everybody comes from the city. Feinman who has no prior personnel or management skills, declared herself to be personnel director under Goodman's office. She was one of Reinharz's friends (no surprise there).

They interpreted the ordinance to let all these city folk PRETEND that all the time they spent serving the taxpayers of the city of new york, was really time spent working for Nassau County. They then added all the time up they spent working for the city and they adjusted their start dates to reflect that. So if Feinman, Goodman and Reinharz first started working for the county in 2002, but they worked for the City of New York for 20 years, their start date for Nassau County was 1982! So according to the records, it looked like they'd been working for the County since 1982.

Not only were they able to then get the benefits package that was offered to workers back in 1982, instead of the new benefits package Suozzi forced on NASSAU COUNTY RESIDENTS who started working for the County in 2002-2003, but they got LONGEVITY BONUS VACATION DAYS. In other words, they got extra days which were meant to reward long time workers for Nassau County, AND they got seniority and benefits they weren't entitled too.

Not ONLY was this done, but they ignored the requirement that the "transfer" had to be within a year. They allowed people who had quit or retired from previous jobs, or were on medical leave or some other kind of leave, or who had other jobs inbetween, or were unemployed to get the re-adjusted date, which isn't exactly a "transfer". Also, some people had gaps of active employee work status between their "CITY" jobs and starting work at Nassau County of more than a year.

That's why these people started one week, and took a two week vacation the following day! They are all friends and lovers and it's all happening right under Suozzi's nose.

Of course, Weitzman won't issue a fraud report on that because his office is the one that back dated everyone.

[SUOZZI PEOPLE]

I know that lots of key employees had no prior service (within a year).

They are just liars!

[me too]

Every last one of them. I know two that were unemployed more than a year before the county picked them up, one that was out on medical leave (not an active employee) and two that were in private jobs for over a year and they all got retroactive benefits and adjusted start dates, not to mention they got tripled the salary entry level employees would have started with. The taxpayers are paying for all of this. But they don't know any of this because the GOP isn't actively transmitting to the media. That's why the $50 million bond floated. IT's gotta be grassroots. The committee people in each local club have to put this stuff in writing and walk around putting it in mailboxes. They lie, they treat and Dillon sits on his hands. Shame.
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[I Like My Meat Rare]

Not until they get scooped anyway.

[IDA CONTRACTOR]

for doing any less work than being a Suozzi appointee is by getting an IDA contract for development after contributing to Suozzi's campaign to kiss Sylver's ass for a job next year.

I must say i am beccoming very scared that there are people like you posters. But i am not scared for anyother reason than its takes a real sociopath to make up this stuff and then smile when you meet someone that you just bashed.

oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh

[Dennis D]

The word from 1 west street is that Mike Klein is heading down.

The payroll scam has been caught:

Robert C. has exited the builing, and the county after his European vacation on county time. Klein who supported the scam and signed the payroll sheets has moved further out on thin ice.

As DA I'm am preparing to throw Klein a 50 pound lead life ring. We in county government don't support use of the government payroll as a way of extracting cash from the government to the favored few.

[Only the beginning]

surveyor. Klein's agency is only the first to head down. If they want to pull a surveillance they can get others for sure. And if they want to know what people are doing all day behind closed doors, they can request accountings. They won't of course. The whole nyc team will be gone and corporate counsel will be filled again.

[project timesheets]

why doesn't dillon start getting his hands on these babies - that'll keep em too busy to follow up with petitions and this are real crimes - stealing money from the county.

[Hotline]

If dillon and weitzman really want to go after fraud, why don't they set-up a hotline, an e-mail address or a website link where employees taking advantage of the system can be anonymously reported? They can investigate and then they'd really have something to brag about when they cut out corruption and waste in county government. Some of it will be easy, like checking with schools to see if mom is really there every day, instead of working like she's signed in to me, or what these so called telecommuters actually do when they're telecommuting. Where's the work logs? Especially for those offices where the "supervisors" outweigh the workers by 4 to 1 .

[What's the hotline number]

I'll call. As long as it accepts blocked phone numbers. I got a few people to turn in.

[Kleinites]

After NC DCE Mike Klein got caught signing false time sheets he has come up with a new PLAN!!!!!

According to Newday:

Michael Klein, the deputy county executive for parks, said, "There have been lock changes, alarm code changes, and we reassigned some staff out of Sands Point." He said some have been reassigned temporarily and some permanently.

So Klein's solution is to lock every thing up so the public can't visit, then he can spend more time, creatively, on more time sheets generating more money for NYC employees personal needs and vacations to Europe!!!!!!

[Sounds Familiar Fellow]

I appear in family court alot and we used to be able to come up to the county attorney's office to talk to them - they're public officers afterall. As soon as the new managment came over they've been less friendly, wanting to lock-out the other attorneys and court staff from their offices and now they are behind locked doors all the time. Shopping on the internet you think? Or just not there maybe.

[poster child]

payroll fraud is a very good example of senior management fraud which would be eliminated with a "whistle blower law".

one more DCE would go down while the tax payer is protected.

Go peter smitt

[question 1]

Whatever happened to that guy who use to run Workers Compensation under Gulotta, that Pete McDonald fellow. Maybe he could be used to catch people who try to commit payroll fraud.

Pete McDonald still works in the County Attorney's office, doesn't he? And is his wife still on the County Attorney's payroll?

[The weany in charge]

McDonald takes orders from Peter Reinharz, the county attorney's managing attorney ( a newly created $130K job just for him) who spent his entire career in the academic pursuit of juvenile delinquents in the City of New York, bringing into the county attorney's office all the friends with baggage he could rescue. If Reinharz is in charge, Reinharz is ultimately responsible for all the office follies - why should anybody else lift a finger?

[Law Pro]

Reinharz is too busy playing games to ever get anything worthwhile accomplished. Now they are installing yet another new computer system - law pro - like they really need that? Maybe they should try winning a case or two - or better yet - maybe they should actually get some decent attorneys working there before they try and change the system to something twice as expensive - yet again. He's just spending money as fast as he can because he knows in November his job is history.

[Cross Fire]

Seems like this thread is carrying two issues:

1.) Should a certain DCE be pursued based on non-eligible paid vacations for NYC folk?

2.) Should the county attorney's office be more hospitable to attorneys working on court cases in Mineola. If they choose not to be (hospitable) is it because they are slacking off somewhere else and don't want folks to know?

Answer to #1- Yes if the amount is more than $1,000.

Answer to #2- Everybody should be able to go to Home Depot on their lunch hour (mental health) however if Nassau is ever going to turn around, a more collegial attitude among attorney's would be nice.

[This not medicaid]

see this thread? this is the reason the property taxes in nassau county were raised by suozzi over 40% if you include all the fee increases. he didn't do it because of medicaid. he did it because he did nothing but spend spend spend but yet he fixed nothing, improved nothing, gave us nothing, did nothing. he took our money and gave it to his friends who took it home to nyc and suffolk county and spend it there. he took our money and gave it to the illegals who sent it on to mexico and cuba and el salvador. now if there becomes a statewide crisis or a national crisis involving medicaid or anything else, we are left with our pockets empty and our pants down because he already took everything there was to take and raised everything there was to raise and gave us nothing. he's killed us and he's killed this county and he left us with one big red X on our head. don't blame medicaid for what has already happened. blame suozzi. and then blame suozzi again.

[Bursting Bomb]

So when does the bomb burst on these people? What's going on with all of this?

[howard w.]

I started this thread, i can stop it any time i want, don't tell me how to do my job.

i am slow, i'm in an election year, i got places to go people to see.

palm cards need work, commercial is over budget. too many dinners.

jay keeps calling.

what i am saying is i got a beat on this. i may delay it till after the election.

What do you think?? Doing it now might help my election. if I wait tom and jay will be happy.

it tough being a controller.

[Trump Card]

Is Howard gonna bear done when the election gets closer - switch to the conservative party and then run for office again? Maybe he's gonna host his own game show. He'll give Suozzi and Peterson a bunch of chores and fire the one who can't keep up. The winner gets to be County Executive.

[County Finances 101]

The payroll for the employees/contractors/outsiders has gone up fourfold from what it was pre-suozzi so how can newsday say the finances are better? no improvements, less services, nothing's been fixed or repays, assessments and legal judgments remain unpaid, workers comp, traffic bureau still don't work, - nothing is done and everything remains to be done and judgments all have to be paid. If the budget is now hinging precariously on state grants and land deals that might not go through - what will happen in 2006 when things fall apart - maintenance can't wait, judgments come due, interest accumulates and houses start to foreclose while mortgage rates on adjustables start to go up? finances are not better. the individual is hurting badly and stung by all of suozzis tax and spend policies and can't withstand much more. there's no more cushion left. what the hell is newsday talking about anyway?

[Sitting on the Pot]

Is Dillon doing anything about this payroll fraud or not?

[Boring Howard]

Howard W will tell us all about his last race against Parola. unfortunately, Someone else will tell us when he beats Howard W this time around. Is Howard getting the C or I lines?

Howard W will tell us all about his last race against Parola. unfortunately, Someone else will tell us when he beats Howard W this time around. Is Howard getting the C or I lines?

This should be a top priority

[54 percent bloat]

According to Newsday - Suozzi's payroll is taking on a 54 percent splurge which will become the single biggest reason he's leading the county into a deficit next year. At least under the republicans, the deficit was caused because there were no high sales tax revenues to take advantage of, and they held the line on property taxes. I'd much rather have had a Republican deficit than a Suozzi deficit because under the Republican's - they still had the options open to them to raise revenue. Suozzi's only options are state aid or bankruptcy.

[kkkkkkk]

kkkkkkkkk

[Howard D. Duck]

Sue Zecca still runs the Controller's Office. Howard Weitzman reports to her, and her alone!

[Zecca Zecca]

$110,000 a year for a glorified payroll/AP clerk that screws up the COunty.

[5 % for no shows too]

I wonder if they had to get a time sheet clearance before they got their salary increases - you know - their time sheets had to be audited for the last year first? It's amazing how many people can be at work and picking up kids and in doctor's offices and shopping all at the same time.

[Howard gave Raises]

Like a copycat.............hea takes orders from Suozzola and pays the NYC people. Cant make a decision. Not a good leader, a blowhard who talks too much. How many audits has he produced? Of what? has the COunty gotten back money? NO............Howard go back to Great Neck.

[Outofmoney]

Weitzman has no shows and false time sheets right in his own office. When can I work at home in my Pajamas??

[5 PM Phone Calls]

You want to catch them? Call the appointees starting from the highest salary to the lowest salary at 9 AM and 5 PM every day. Guaranteed - they won't be there. Especially tomorrow - snow is coming, schools are suppose to close early. I bet you 3/4 of them will be leaving early - and none of them will sign out early. Watch and see. Another way. Call around 12 PM and see when they go out to lunch. Call 1 hour later. Guaranteed they won't be back. Maybe 2 hours later. Maybe longer than that. Maybe just in time to sign out and go home! I've seen 'em do it. Seen 'em come in at 8:30 AM and call people and make the rounds so people think they are such hard workers. Watched them leave the buildings and get in their cars and take off a few hours later and then come back when it's time to go home. Then they spend an hour making calls and making the rounds so people think they are such hard workers - coming in at 8:30 AM and still in the office at 6:00 PM. It's going on folks. And we pay for it -- for all of it -- and he wants to keep on raising those taxes.

[Howard the Duck]

Audits? what audits?

[easy audit]

As simple as turbo tax.

Check payroll record and time sheets for Robert C.

Check Robert C.'s passport.


DA aaaaaaaaa It ain't rocket science. Howie will figure it out!!!

[handwritting]

it is an easy audit. look at timesheets countywide. when you see all the same handwriting and numbers on a timesheet then you know its a coverup for somebody. the sups sign off on them.

[guilty sups]

the guilty sups fill in everbody 9 to 5 because if they make them tell the truth then the sups lying about their own time will have to worry about getting squealed on themselves.

[in court or a meeting]

whenever you ask where's so and so the answer is always either in court or at a meeting somewhere else. there's alot more courtwork and meetings going on in a course of the day then any municipality should ever have if thats the truth. which I'm sure it's not.

[Name Names]

It's time to start naming names. It's not libel if it's true.

[Hillary Duff]

I demand an audit!

[celeste100]

report gets a 5 month jump on my reporting

MINEOLA

Part-time clerk repays

county for vacation

A former Nassau County seasonal clerk in the parks department paid back on Friday $1,415.25 in vacation money county officials now acknowledge he shouldn't have been paid.

Robert Cataldo, who worked in the parks department from September 2003 until early December 2004, returned the money after the county notified him that he should not have been paid for two weeks of vacation time he took in early July for an overseas trip. As a part-time seasonal worker, he was not entitled to vacation and was only supposed to get paid for hours worked, county officials said.

Jo-ann Goldson, Nassau's human resources director, acknowledged the county discovered the overpayment Wednesday after Newsday asked about it. Questions about the improper vacation payment had circulated for several months on Lipolitics.com, a political gossip Web site. Goldson said she was investigating how Cataldo got paid for vacation time he hadn't earned. She also acknowledged that his time sheets had not been signed as county policy requires.

Cataldo could not be reached for comment.

Although the county comptroller handles the county payroll, the office does not review individual time sheets and depends on each department to verify its employee pay, said comptroller spokesman Allen Morrison. "Time sheets are all approved at the department level." - CELESTE HADRICK

[howard007]

the cover up has begun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a few things---

Cataldo worked directly for DCE Klein and was hired as a hand picked NYC ite by Klein. He wasn't a parks department employee.

Cataldo had Klein sign every HR form and hand carried it to HR for payment. Against all proceedures. Check with witnesses.

Where there is smoke their is a cover up. Look at Cataldo's payroll records. Did he work all those hours he said he did?? Most people didn't see him before 9am or after 4:30. Check the record. Why was Klein signing all those vouchers for this "part time clerk"

What about the rest of Klein's flunkees???

[dennis007]

Payroll sheets not signed? Highly unlikely.

In Celeste's article-
"Nassau's human resources director, acknowledged the county discovered the overpayment Wednesday after Newsday asked about it. Questions about the improper vacation payment had circulated for several months on Lipolitics.com, a political gossip Web site. Goldson said she was investigating how Cataldo got paid for vacation time he hadn't earned. She also acknowledged that his time sheets had not been signed as county policy requires."

This is an easy one, check all of Cataldo's forms submitted to HR and the Controller and see that DCE Klein was signing every thing for Cataldo (as a part time seasonal clerk-ha, ha, ha!!!)

Maybe DCE Mike Klein ate the time sheets!!!! Then maybe he re-wrote them to re-invent history?

In any case there is plenty of evidence against Klein. This seasonal worker was paid excessive hours of compensation based on a patern of payroll fraud over long period of time.

[coverup87]

In Celeste's newsday article she reports:

"A former Nassau County seasonal clerk in the parks department paid back on Friday $1,415.25 in vacation money county officials now acknowledge he shouldn't have been paid. "

-Why would the county tell Celeste that Cataldo was a "seasonal clerk" when he actually was an ex NYC council staffer and hand picked DCE Klein operative????

-Sounds like their cover up is to do damage control by minimizing Cataldo's role in the NYC Kleinites continued perversion of the truth in Klein's vertical.

- Why would they call him a parks department seasonal when he had been paid EVERY season by Klein????? THe only parks Cataldo saw was driving through Central park.

Good start Celeste you got to work through this and follow it through the cover up.

[Politico at BOE]

Politicos like Cataldo should be at BOE.

Supposidly DCE Klein sent Cataldo to work on Kerry's presidental campaign in PA, it looks bad to have the payroll records state that Cataldo as a "part time seasonal" was in Nassau County.

Or, I want to transfer to one of those DCE Klein jobs. Sounds like politico's get treated financially better in the Klein vertical.

[Kerry Campaign]

DCE Mike Klein's support of the Kerry campaign is appreciated. We only had $300 million to spend so it is appropriate that Nassau County could kick in where the race was expected to be close.

Robert Cataldo is a great democratic operative at presidential race time in November. We don't sign Nassau County Time sheets so one can understand why maybe his November time sheets were not signed.

How could you say he was in Nassau when he wasn't?
Hopefully he didn't collect anything like Celeste is describing during this "fall vacation".

[Cunningham Campaign]

DCE Mike Klein's support of the Kerry campaign is appreciated. We only had $300 million to spend so it is appropriate that Nassau County could kick in where the race was expected to be close.

Robert Cataldo is a great democratic operative at presidential race time in November. We don't sign Nassau County Time sheets so one can understand why maybe his November time sheets were not signed.

How could you say he was in Nassau when he wasn't?
Hopefully he didn't collect anything like Celeste is describing during this "fall vacation".

Sounds a lot like running the Cunningham and being signed in at the BOE all day. See a pattern here. Keep digging Celeste. You have only scratched the surface. This is minor stuff compared to the abuses at 400 County Seat Drive.

[Which Vacation???]

Cataldo just paid back the $1,400 ($75 K annual) for his summer vacation (Europe) as reported the last 5 months in the Report.

The Fall Vacation is new to us. Thanks Kerry campaign, we can't afford more bad DCE Klein stuff coming out during this falls election. This guy is becoming heavy maintenance for Lorna and Helena. Maybe Kimmy will take care of him like she did with Robert Cataldo in December.

[guest 2]

Robert was not in PA working for the Dems. He was in Florida working for the Dems for several weeks before and appoximately a week after, the Nov. 2004 elections. He was probably paid for this time as well as his summer trip to Italy. Also, he was not a "part-time" employee. He was a full-time, seasonal employee for the Parks Dept. on DCE Klein's vertical being paid > $70,000/yr. What were his qualifications for this position? He is a former chef. Was the usual requirement that Nassau County employees be Nassau County residents for a year prior to employment followed?--not at all. He, like all of Klein's entourage, resided in the 5 boroughs and still reside there.

[Snow closes County Down]

What happened today? Alittle snow and I couldn't reach anybody working in the County after 3 PM. Did the County close down? Are all these people signing out at 5 PM even though they all left work early? That explains the convoy of Nassau County stickers tailgating down Old Country Road at 3:15 PM today.

[Who Signed?]

I thought every boss has to sign their life away and swear to the fact that they know the person earned the time for which they were paid or was on duty for the week they worked.

[howard008]

DCE Klein signed for Robert Cataldo's lively hood the 15 months cataldo reaped well over $70 k per year. Cataldo as Celeste noted was a "seasonal clerk" which requires a high level of scrutiny by signor or a complicit relationship if the employee is possibly campaigning in FL for Kerry but still possibly getting paid (needs to be checked by controller if accurate). The first incident Celeste caught was a vacation to Italy.

DCE Klein sits in a favored situation like DCE Peter Sylver and it would be real hard to turn his cart over. Cover ups galor. Also simialr to Dan Rather and CBS and Bush's military records.

[Commissioner Einstein]

You can always check out all of Suozzi's men at the BOE, they come and go to vegas and still signed in, its a wonderful life

You want to catch them? Call the appointees starting from the highest salary to the lowest salary at 9 AM and 5 PM every day. Guaranteed - they won't be there. Especially tomorrow - snow is coming, schools are suppose to close early. I bet you 3/4 of them will be leaving early - and none of them will sign out early. Watch and see. Another way. Call around 12 PM and see when they go out to lunch. Call 1 hour later. Guaranteed they won't be back. Maybe 2 hours later. Maybe longer than that. Maybe just in time to sign out and go home! I've seen 'em do it. Seen 'em come in at 8:30 AM and call people and make the rounds so people think they are such hard workers. Watched them leave the buildings and get in their cars and take off a few hours later and then come back when it's time to go home. Then they spend an hour making calls and making the rounds so people think they are such hard workers - coming in at 8:30 AM and still in the office at 6:00 PM. It's going on folks. And we pay for it -- for all of it -- and he wants to keep on raising those taxes.

You just made that up! That's too funny! Everyone works their butts off, and there's still not enough time to do it all.

[payroll police]

suozzi just said, in his state of the county, that he has cut out the time sheet fraud.

wake up trs, Celeste just clipped the tip of iceberg with the Robert Cataldo scam.

More to come. TRS wishes he had solved the time sheet probe which he seemed to blame on the Republicans. No way!

Klein is at the heart of the moral decay in the Suozzi org chart.

Go Celeste!!!

[Billy B]

Celeste does as she is told-dont ya know?

[county attorney's office]

He hasn't even started looking at the ones from the past few years at the county attorney's office. Half of them are dispersed all over the place and nobody had any clue where they are all day. Timesheets are uniformly filled in by supervisors who are there even less time then the workers, and even when the workers want to fill out times different than 9 to 5, supervisors won't let them because they don't want to "red flag" their bureaus.

[LI pressed]

Celeste wrote last week

"Nassau's human resources director, acknowledged the county discovered the overpayment Wednesday after Newsday asked about it. Questions about the improper vacation payment had circulated for several months on Lipolitics.com, a political gossip Web site. Goldson said she was investigating how Cataldo got paid for vacation time he hadn't earned. She also acknowledged that his time sheets had not been signed as county policy requires."

We were thinking about Celeste's spin on this one. We realize she needs her double confirmation however:

If DCE Klein went through a giant shreading operation on the real time sheets he signed, including Cataldo's and other NYC employees, he most likely failed to purge parrallel records and e-mails. If he did purge them then there is a pattern. For Instance, If Cataldo was paid before and after the election while he was in FL campaigning for Kerry, then and audit of his e-mail should be done. If the e-mail is also shredded then their was a cover up.

As we now know, Cataldo was not eligible for vacation as a "Seasonal" employee working directly for DCE Klein.

Also, audit the other time sheets and e-mail for the 6 no show employees that DCE Klein dragged with him from NYC.

[HiNRG]

$110,000 a year for a glorified payroll/AP clerk that screws up the COunty.

At $110,000 Zecca is far from a glorified Payroll/AP clerk. She is the Nassau County Fiscal Officer with 30 years experience. Her expertise in interpreting County Charters, laws, resolutions, ordinances, contracts, etc. is unsurpassed, and although the job does not win her any popularity contests, she earns every penny...

[Free & Loose w/ truth]

LI Pressed- Don't point these things out.

The plan is to have Nassau become the 6th borough. Then DCE Mike Klein's (from NYC) action will seem very normal.

[I don't want high rises]

Suozzi hired a bankrupt, sex abusing thief to be in charge of economic development and then replaced him with a guy who wants to float a $1.7 million bond to develope private property on the Queens border for the benefit of LIJ. Enough said.

[There will never be]

Enough said. Suozzi wants to develop nassau county but he cant even manage to renovate and repair or maintain what already exists. He only wants big, fat, juicy contractors to give to real estate developers and construction companies so they give him big, fat, juicy donations for his Governor run. That's money down the drain.

[thats what we are saying]

The payroll fraud vertical (DCE Klein and BOE) will fund in kind contributions and labor for the governors race. Not like the unseemly 1% kick back scheme of the republicans.

[Turkey Sandwhich]

Right. The Dems have a 10% kickback scheme for most and a $10K requirement for outside contractors. They also do their campaigning on county time with county paid employees who obviously have do nothing jobs because nothing stops operating while they are running around the streets of - say Hempstead. Bold and Blantant and so what? Because I think he'll be re-elected since most people don't know, don't care or don't believe what's really happening.

[Howard the great]

My audit is nearly finished reference time sheets and time sheet cover ups.

The king of fraud will soon be unvailed.

[Tommy Timesheet]

No one expects to County Exec to fill out a timesheet, but cmon how about showing up for work once in a while. Having looked out my window for the past several years Suozzi shows up about 1/2 day a week at best. Many weeks he not ther at all. I know he'll say "I'm out taking care of County Business" and that's why I have good managers.
1. You have terrible managers
2. Your always at the Glen Cove YMCA
Howard - why don't you audit that!

[CE TIMESHEETS]

Why shouldn't a public official fill out a timesheet? He should at least file public quartly activity reports so we can see how he's spending our money. He's accountable for his time to the taxpayers.

[Who outprocessed Robert C]

If Cataldo paid back the $1,500 for salary collected illegally when he vacationed, as a DCE Klein's Seasonal worker, and as reported in Newsday (Kerry campaign time not paid back).

And, Cataldo carried the bag for much of Klein's responsibilities.

And, Parc Nassau has caught Klein in many lies already.

Can we expect Klein to admit to his other fiasco's at Nickerson Beach, mis use of the DPW resourses, failure to complete any projects promised.

Therefore, why doesn't Celeste get Article number 2 going (take your pick on any of Parc Nassau issues) and ask people who don't lie about some of his other schemes;

Before, he starts spending the $98 million per year (all in DPW and Parks which are his areas as a DCE) approved by the legislature this week.

Because, It will be years before Klein admits to misspending this money which we know will happen. Slush fund Mike Klein can spend any money available without any outcomes.

Nail him Celeste before my taxes go up more.

[Kerry Campaign]

Cataldo was in Florida campaigning for Kerry.

When is Klein going to fess up on this fraud scheme where he most likely paid Cataldo his salary before and after the November election when he was still in Florida?

Where is our crack Controller who started this thread.

[worried about nassau]

I work in HR and I know that Cataldo did not get paid for his campainging for kerry, matter of fact he wasn't even with kerry he was with one of those soft money groups.... The thing I don't get is why there is so much attention to this surley there has to be bigger issues then this???? also why does everyone hate klein so much, I met the guy and he doesn't seem like the anti christ every one makes him out to be. Nassau has real issues not just some guy who seems to piss everyone off!

[worried about klein]

"worried about Nassau" wonders why people hate "flavor of the month" DCE Mike Klein:

1.) He has continually lied to parc Nassau about his plan and his ability and his staff.
2.) He has no knowlege or ability with DPW, Parks, Golf and Museuems yet he comits millions to bull s__t projects that never work.
3.) He is totally disorganized, he ignores personnel matters including seasonals until its a crisis, i.e. Golf every year.
4.)He spends his time kissing up to Suozzi who has no semblance of reality going ref. Klein, Suozzi agrees with him and he "re-organizes so he can blame every thing of anybody but himself.
5.) He has gone through Commissioners like water i.e. Michelle McFaul, Doreen Banks, Susan Ryan and is currently in a blood war with Murphy. Murphy will beat him because he is a man. The women are ignored in this administration's mentality (even when molested like the Sylver situation).
6.) His six direct hires are real zeros and all came from NYC. He totally abuses Nassau county policy and requires no competent work from these individuals. Forget the time sheets!
7.) He (and the Kleinites) don't show up for the retirement party of OBVR cheif Ken Balcom (35 years) yet he re-organizes the area and puts his in-law Reggie Magwood incharge! An incompetent loser.



All in all people hate Klein because he is a lying piece of s__t. The Parks department use to do more with less now they do less with more!!!

just warming up!

[Cataldo's pay]

DCE Klein's perversion of the county payroll system was also demonstrated in Cataldo's never more than -9:15 to 4:45 PM -work day inbetween his comute to NYC.

How much did Klein kick into his "seasonal clerk's" pay???
Was it 9 hours, 10 hours a day- straight through his reprehensible employement with the couinty??

Only Celeste can find out.

[I will be governor]

NYC boys, keep up the good work.

I will be Governor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who ate the stawberries?????????

TRS

[The Dummy Defense]

Yeah - look where that got Dan Rather.

[Who is Shamwa?]

Who is Shamwa?

Why is a NYC DCE Kleinite, Shamwa, geting paid big bucks for doing nothing. Why has the Robert Cataldo / DCE Klein payroll scam continued with Shamwa, even after Celeste busted Klein once on Ctaldo (partially).

Who is Shamwa?

[Shamwa's job]

Shamwa is a well paid boot lick for NYC DCE Klein. He also holds Klein's coat. This helps Klein through his boot licking and ass kissing of Tom Suozzi.

For this job you only need to show up when you are needed. This could be in NYC or in the mid town tunnel.

Therefore based on the job description; time sheets and truth in hours are not required.

Give poor Shamwa a break. Celeste, no need to follow up.

[Shamwa's SUV?]

Does Shamwa get an SUV like Reggie Magwood (Klein's in-law)?

Does he get free gas to drive to NYC like Reggie Magwood and his free comute to Statan Island?

[parks work group]

never seen him at the pumps.

must not have an suv.

but we also have never seen him do any work, or anything in the park other than follow klein around.

[Dennis the D]

Yea Klein has siphoned off thousands to these clowns.

He will be a star participant this summer in news coverage as my quiet probe unpeels the onion so to speak.

I love the arrogance of these NYC guys who think the county is a cookie jar.

[Parc nasau gets it right]

NYC Mike Klein is all about paying losers enormous $$'s by Klein signing payroll sheets for hours never worked.

Celeste hit the tip of the ice berg with the minor portion of Robert Catalado European vacation with pay from the county.

Now Dennis or Celeste may or may not expose Shamwa, Robert and others booking hours that don't pass the laugh test.

Free gas for NYC ites, stolen payroll hours for his underlings, a business sense equal to Enron's, and all we have to pay mike klein is $135,000 a year.

[Its simple]

Make these guys produce TBTA receipts proving what time they went through or over the bridges and tunnels when they left NYC in their SUVs.

Who needs time sheets.

[Not the county attorneys]

especially not the ones allegedly putting in a full day, 5 days a week off site - ie: not on west street. The west street ones are bad enough with administrators like feinman and reinharz sitting around making busy work for themselves. reinharz spends more time cooking himself meals with his refrigerator and microwave he has in his office and hanging pictures of his two brats then doing anything else except maybe transfering his paycheck to his queens branch bank accounts. but put a surveillance on the offset attorneys. one bureau chief hasn't worked a full friday in the 2 years she's been there and others are taking 1/2 days or 3 hour lunches as a regular thing. check it out.

[Tell your friends]

Tell your friends about Suozzi's payroll fraud. Print out this thread and show it to them. Pass around the truth. Get Suozzi out in 2005.

[fraud spreads]

http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=188&show=article&a_id=4065

LI Press outlines the corruption going on in certain departments where fund raising is being done by folks filing timesheets.

Little different spin than the Robert Cataldo mess, but the same deal. Taxpayers lose.

[The gig is up]

States evidence is being processed on the spreading Robert Cataldo payroll scam as orchestrated by a highe level Suozzi appointee.

[Louis Farrakhan II]

Suozzi to face fire over park workers
Nassau executive criticized for hirings of 2 ‘seasonal clerks’ who earned far more than usual $12 an hour

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BY CELESTE HADRICK
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June 22, 2005


Two "seasonal clerks" in the Nassau County Parks Department earned approximately $65,000 each last year and were on track to earn much more this year in jobs that routinely pay less than $12 an hour, according to payroll records.

Hours after Newsday asked for an explanation yesterday, the administration of Nassau's Democratic County Executive Thomas Suozzi fired Shomwa Shamapande, changed the employment status of Charles McKinney, and said it was referring the matter for investigation to District Attorney Denis Dillon.











Chief Deputy County Executive Anthony Cancellieri said that after Newsday requested the payroll records June 13, Nassau officials discovered "serious irregularities" in Shamapande's time sheets. Cancellieri said no irregularities were found in the time sheets of McKinney, who was immediately changed to a "part-time" employee.

County Republicans criticized Suozzi for evading civil service tests and legislative oversight in hiring the pair of political appointees.



Schmitt to blast Suozzi

Minority Leader Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) intends to hold a news conference today blasting Suozzi, who is campaigning for a second term this fall by touting his success at reducing "waste, fraud and corruption."

Jerry Laricchiuta, president-elect of the county's largest municipal union, said the salaries were "outrageous" and questioned whether the hirings were a "union busting" tactic.

"Once again, the administration is evading civil service laws and regulations overseeing contractual employees," Schmitt said.

Cancellieri contends the administration acted appropriately in hiring the two as seasonal clerks, even though such a classification generally means the employee works for only part of a year. The two were working on park projects that lasted longer than expected, he said. He defended the classification, asserting that hiring them through a contract approved by the legislature "would have cost the county double."

Shamapande, a resident of Manhattan, claimed to have often worked more than 50 hours a week for the past two years at $25 an hour helping to set park policy, according to county records. But several Parks Department employees and county officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity fearing retribution from Suozzi, said Shamapande was seldom seen on the job.

In an interview before he was fired yesterday, Shamapande told Newsday he had put in all the hours he claimed and believed he had done "outstanding work."

McKinney, also of Manhattan, was identified by county administrators as a landscape architect, who earns $65 per hour as a "seasonal clerk." McKinney, who also claimed on a resume provided by county officials to help set park policy, could not be reached for comment.



Quite a pay disparity

By comparison, full-time clerks who are required to pass competitive employment tests before they can be hired by Nassau, start at about $12 an hour, according to union officials. County officials acknowledged that "seasonal clerks" aren't supposed to make policy and that the two merely assisted in making policy.

County officials say Deputy County Executive Michael Klein oversees the parks department and hired Shamapande and McKinney. Both went onto the payroll in the summer of 2003. Shamapande worked as a special assistant to Klein and helped develop better communications and park policies, according to copies of his resume provided by the county. McKinney's resume describes him as "the chief planner" responsible for developing the new vision for the parks department.

Schmitt also criticized the hirings because the two workers are not Nassau residents, and noted that Shamapande is a citizen of Zambia. He asked, "What could this individual be doing in the parks department that we had to go to Zambia to get him?" He noted that the county's administrative code says employees should be county residents unless they have "exceptional qualifications" to do work that can't be performed by a county resident.

It was unclear last night why Klein had hired the two workers, but Cancellieri said they were qualified for the jobs and said he was not familiar with the code requirement pertaining to county residents.

A news database search by Newsday found that when Shamapande was a University of Massachusetts student in 1995, he was quoted in wire service stories and the CBS Evening News as being a supporter of controversial black leader Louis Farrakhan. In one story, Shamapande was quoted as complaining about Jews "hitting us over the head with their suffering."

Shamapande yesterday said he had been misquoted when he was young and naive and was never a supporter of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

Republicans objected to having a reported Farrakhan supporter on the county payroll and Schmitt said he will raise the issue today. Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said the Nation of Islam "is anti-Catholic, it's anti-Semitic and nobody affiliated with that organization should have any kind of appointed position in local government."

Cancellieri said the administration does not do background checks on seasonal employees and was not aware of any Farrakhan connections. "The county had no knowledge of comments he made over a decade ago," Cancellieri said.

[Klein's Got to Go]

Klein F__ked up Parks now hires the nation of Islam,

Suozzi may as well turn over his administration to Louis Farrakan.

Klein Hates all ethnics an was trying to populate parks with radicals.

Send Klein to jail!!

[A pattern of Fraud]

Lets see:

Klein:::::::::::

1.) Hires his relative, NYC Reggie Magwood, senior deputy parks copmmissioner and lets him take an SUV to Staten Island ever day, with free county gas. Magwood in incompetent and a perpetrator of violations of the county Charter.

2.) Hires Robert Cataldo as a seasonal and lets him go on vacation in Europe and pays him. When Celeste finds out they fire Cataldo and claims the time sheets were not signed. The time sheets were Klei's responsibility and it is believed by HR folks that they were shreaded.

3.) Shamwa, Louis Farrakan et. al.'s story is reported in Newsday Today with Klein perpertratiung the payroll fraud.

4.) Charles McKinney (all of these are NYC operatives) was hired at the same time as Reggie, Shamwa, Robert and Charles.

5.) These guys have a string of activities banned by statute in Nassau County.

If the glove fits convict!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


$400,000 a year in illegal salaries to guys who screwed up the parks system. Dennis and Peter time to do your work!!!!!!!!

And with all this going on, Klein is free to do as he pleases while Suozzoli does nothing,

[louis farrakan III]

if the glove fits convict.

klein's goes straight to jail

[Emmittt Till]

Where's Weitzman? Asleep at the wheel as usual.....................................Get out there and audit Howie!

[management structure]

Klein hired:

Shomwa
Robert Cataldo
Reggie Maggwood
Charles McKinney

Outside the system as his (Klein's) own direct reports
to how a shadow organization to perpetrate fraud in Nassau Couty.

In the process Klein got rid of all the properly appointed, (legislature or County Charter) managers in his way.

All were Nassau County residents in trade for the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakan following NYC residents.

[Mgmt stays, worker fired]

It's unbelievable isn't it. Instead of holding the supervisors and upper level management responsible for failing to do their jobs in, well, supervising their workers and questioning payroll - Suozzi fires the worker! The supervisors signed off on the timesheets and got biweekly payroll sheets indicating the grade and title and pay of all the workers in the department. Yet Klein and his team remain - and this guy they never should have hired in the first place, gets fired. Sad. Very sad.

[skptk]

I think Klein was brought in to help (ironically) the Suozzi political campaign. He is a professional double-talker and "image-man." His only concern is to make the things he is involved in "look good" from the public's-side.

How he makes that happen. No matter how much money is spent. No matter how illegal or immoral it may be. It doesn't matter. As long as TRS gets to smile for the photo and say he made it happen is Klein's only concern. The hope is that if TRS heads upstate (god help us), Klein will go with him.

Also, all the city-folk who have come in with him were people he worked with in the past. Since he doesn't seem to be able to actually do anything himself, he brought these people in with him to do the work for him. He's like a political Tom Sawyer - "This is fun work guys, come to Nassau County, I will get you good money and you will have a great time doing my work for me."

[rekrow krap]

I wonder what deputy mike klein did wrong in his previous work that he owed so many favors to all these high-paid, low-productivity people he has 'hired.'

[how much payroll fraud?]

Let see Klein says Suozzi spent 18 million that the legislature authorized.

we know that based on work done no more than $7 million could have been spent legally.

That leaves $11 fraudulently spent by Klein through payroll fraud, sweet heart contracts to vendiors for toilet seats and consultant contracts where work was not preformed.

Anything over $1000 is a felony.

The DA says Klein goes to Jail. Suozzi may follow based on the cover up.

[felony 101]

Suozzi deputy under fire for hirings


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BY CELESTE HADRICK
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June 23, 2005

Nassau Republicans yesterday called for County Executive Thomas Suozzi to fire a top deputy who hired and paid two "seasonal clerks" $65,000 a year, but the county's top Democrat rejected their demand as "just politics."

Minority Leader Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) and Legis. Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow) said Suozzi, who faces re-election this fall, should boot Deputy County Executive Michael Klein for circumventing county regulations by appointing the two Manhattan residents two years ago to low-level jobs that are meant to be temporary, while authorizing high-level pay.

Schmitt said Republicans learned that Klein signed the time sheets for Shomwa Shamapande, who claimed to have often worked more than 50 hours a week at $25 an hour, and Charles McKinney, who was paid $65 an hour.

Shamapande was on track this year to be paid about $77,000, while McKinney could collect more than $105,000, payroll records show. Most of Nassau's seasonal clerks are paid between $8 and $12 an hour.

"How could Klein certify that they worked the exorbitant hours they claimed?" Schmitt said in Mineola, demanding that Suozzi "produce the timesheets."

In rejecting calls for Klein's termination, Suozzi said, "there's no indication that Mike Klein has done anything inappropriate ... He's done a good job in turning around the park system."

Suozzi terminated Shamapande on Tuesday, citing "irregularities" in his time sheets, and referred the matter to District Attorney Denis Dillon.

Before he was fired, Shamapande said he had put in all of the hours he claimed, doing "outstanding work," even though some park and county officials said they seldom saw him on the job.

"If Mike Klein signed timesheets for work that was not performed, he would be fired immediately," Suozzi said. "Currently there is no indication that that happened."

No irregularities were found in McKinney's records, officials said, but they reclassified his position to "part-time."

Suozzi said he had given Klein authority to appoint assistants and thought it appropriate to hire the two as seasonal clerks, rather than on a contract basis or as full-time civil service employees. "We thought it would be a relatively temporary assignment of no more than a year, and it turned out to be a much bigger project," he said.

Suozzi said he will end the practice "in the interest of harmonious legislative relations."

Klein hired the two in the summer of 2003. Shamapande, a Zambian citizen, had worked for Democratic political consultant Bill Lynch and was the contact person for Dennis Mehiel's 2002 campaign to become the Democratic candidate for New York lieutenant governor. McKinney is the son of a late mayor of Springdale, Ark., who was a Democrat who held office while Bill Clinton was governor.

Suozzi said he had not known of their political pedigree, and Klein said: "They were both hired for their professional qualifications." The statement noted that McKinney is a professional parks planner and administrator who had managed the master plan for Manhattan's Riverside Park.

"Shamapande's background was in events planning and special events marketing. He was brought in to help with events planning when the original plan was to create more revenue-generating events at county facilities. When the county realized we had to upgrade the parks, he focused on the launch of the 10 points park plan, which was successfully completed on May 31," he said, referring to Suozzi's plan to rejuvenate Nassau's deteriorating park system.

[fraud is fraud]

Newsday made Celeste publish Shomwa and McKinney's background today as if it matters for these "seasonal clerks".

They claimed they were working 50 plus hours a week and they were not..

The DA will check with other workers to confirm a pattern of no show attendance for Shomwa and a 9-4:30 mentality for McKinney where far more hours were being submitted and signed by Klein.

These guys were hired in July 2003 with Robert Cataldo who, as a seasonal worker, had no vacation time but took a few weeks and went to Europe and got paid (time sheets shreaded).

Celeste recported this in her prior article when she reported that Cataldo was fired.

Here we just had Cataldo and Shomwa fired and Klein is still standing. Give me a break!

How many of the new Suozzi crop pf managers took vacations only a few months after the start of their employment? No CT allowed and no time built up and they take two weeks off?

Suozzi and his thugs are all payroll liars.


Ordinance 543-1995 permits any employees that transferred from a state or municipal government job to continue in their same pension. That was it's purpose. Back in the Gulotta day there were hardly any people coming to Nassau from other governments because he followed the Nassau County residency guidelines, but when the occasional State worker came to the County to work, the purpose of the ordinance was really so they wouldn't lose their benefits from the pension. It was intended for compliance with state law. It was also meant so that if you worked for Nassau County before, and left for a year to make some money doing something else, and came back to Nassau County within a year, you wouldn't have lost any time as a Nassau County employee. It was like taking a sabbatical.

Now everybody comes from the city. Feinman who has no prior personnel or management skills, declared herself to be personnel director under Goodman's office. She was one of Reinharz's friends (no surprise there).

They interpreted the ordinance to let all these city folk PRETEND that all the time they spent serving the taxpayers of the city of new york, was really time spent working for Nassau County. They then added all the time up they spent working for the city and they adjusted their start dates to reflect that. So if Feinman, Goodman and Reinharz first started working for the county in 2002, but they worked for the City of New York for 20 years, their start date for Nassau County was 1982! So according to the records, it looked like they'd been working for the County since 1982.

Not only were they able to then get the benefits package that was offered to workers back in 1982, instead of the new benefits package Suozzi forced on NASSAU COUNTY RESIDENTS who started working for the County in 2002-2003, but they got LONGEVITY BONUS VACATION DAYS. In other words, they got extra days which were meant to reward long time workers for Nassau County, AND they got seniority and benefits they weren't entitled too.

Not ONLY was this done, but they ignored the requirement that the "transfer" had to be within a year. They allowed people who had quit or retired from previous jobs, or were on medical leave or some other kind of leave, or who had other jobs inbetween, or were unemployed to get the re-adjusted date, which isn't exactly a "transfer". Also, some people had gaps of active employee work status between their "CITY" jobs and starting work at Nassau County of more than a year.

That's why these people started one week, and took a two week vacation the following day! They are all friends and lovers and it's all happening right under Suozzi's nose.

Of course, Weitzman won't issue a fraud report on that because his office is the one that back dated everyone.


And when is the Long Island Press going to start investigating and writing about this? Here's where your tax dollars are going.

He hasn't even started looking at the ones from the past few years at the county attorney's office. Half of them are dispersed all over the place and nobody had any clue where they are all day. Timesheets are uniformly filled in by supervisors who are there even less time then the workers, and even when the workers want to fill out times different than 9 to 5, supervisors won't let them because they don't want to "red flag" their bureaus.

Look at the Family Court sheets from 2002. It's all in the chief's handwriting. Check the signatures too. Are the 3 hour lunches still going on?

[Bonnie Garrone]

I knew about these two guys months ago, but did nothing. I also supposedly investigated time sheet allegations at the BOE, and other departments based on complaints filed with my office. Again, I did nothing. I hope Dennis Dillon doesn't investigate me. I will just tell him I did nothing. NOthing wrong with that.

[he who support suozzi]

She's not a player - you don't believe for a minute Suozzi and company didn't know what was going on do you? The Newsday article makes it seem like they were outraged and although they don't report sex abusers and million dollar HUD money thiefs - they run right away and report some low level guy they hired, who was probably doing whatever he was doing with their permission or right under their face - and they allowed it and will continue to allow it - but if they get caught - they turn their back on you. I can't believe how stupid people are - how idiots can possibly support suozzi and his people when he proves time after time after time that he will use you when it suits him, and then leave you to die when that suits him.

[suozzi's problem]

suozzi's personality problem/defect requires that he have constant reinforcement.

usually those type of people willing to put up with this head case are scum bags like mike klein who steal the tax payer blind while supporting scum bags like farrakan.

[grand jury-hall of shame]

Article below in today's Newsday as Grand Jury Probe begins

All NYC residence feeding at nassau county's treasury.

DCE Mike Klein- Political crimes to follow payroll fraud??

His entourage

Shomwa- To the GJ
Robert Cataldo- Caught
CM- To the GJ
Reggie Magwood- low life-County SUV's to Statan Is.


Grand jury probe of Nassau 'seasonal clerks'

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BY CELESTE HADRICK
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June 25, 2005


Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon confirmed on Friday he has opened a grand jury criminal investigation into alleged payroll irregularities involving two county parks department "seasonal clerks" who each earned about $65,000 last year.

"We have issued grand jury subpoenas and have obtained various documents in response to the grand jury process," Dillon wrote in a letter to Eric Naughton, the county legislature's budget review director, which was was signed by Frank Quigley, chief of Dillon's special investigations bureau. "We intend to continue the investigation and to comprehensively address any and all issues of potential criminal liability."

A Dillon spokeswoman Friday confirmed the letter, obtained by Newsday, but declined to comment.

Naughton said Friday he had contacted Dillon, a Republican, because he wanted to do his own review but didn't want to impede any criminal investigation while he reviewed whether Democratic County Executive Thomas Suozzi's administration had followed county policy in appointing Charles McKinney and Shomwa Shamapande to temporary low-level seasonal clerk jobs while authorizing full-time, high-level pay.

Newsday reported on Wednesday that Shamapande, a Manhattan resident who has worked as a national and state Democratic political operative, often claimed to have worked more than 50 hours a week, earning $25 an hour, for two years. Another Democrat, McKinney, also of Manhattan, earned $65 an hour for two years. Most seasonal clerks earn less than $12 an hour. Suozzi said both were hired by Deputy County Executive Michael Klein, who also lives in Manhattan.

The county code says new Nassau employees should have lived in the county for at least a year unless they have extraordinary talents and abilities.

The same day Newsday questioned their pay, Suozzi fired Shamapande, citing irregularities in his time sheets, and referred the matter to Dillon. Suozzi aides said they saw no irregularities in McKinney's records. Shamapande said he worked all the hours claimed.

Responding to Dillon's letter, Suozzi aide Arda Nazerian said, "They're obviously moving very quickly to resolve a matter that we found and referred to them."


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[Howard weitz Man]

Sorry folks. I was half asleeep on this 1. Im Independent u know.

[howie 100]

before this thread creates too much attention to my re-election, i offically close it down. (i started it I can close it down)

back to the books.

see you

[howie 200]

who died and left u the Comptroller? Mr Klein?

[DonnaDonna]

Weitzman, obviously TOLD to be asleep at the switch by Suozzi and JJ, looks like an idiot as a result of the Klein resignation. Where was this in the Parks audit Howie? This November, vote for Clavin!

[stupid Howie]

How stupid is Howard our Conroller?????

Peter Schmidt asks Howie to audit OMB where DCE Mike Klien was hiding his flunkies.

So what does Howie say (Today's article below)?

Howie
"said an audit is already under way of the parks department time-and-leave practices, including an examination of Shamapande's and McKinney's pay"

Peter has the blow up time sheet which say "County Executive's Office". OMB is the department That Peter says should audited if they are trying to check on the Klein boys. Peter had the time sheets. Peter asked the questions. But Howie audits the wrong place!!



MINEOLA

GOP asks comptroller

to join payroll probe

Nassau Republicans yesterday called on the county comptroller to get involved in an ongoing payroll scandal that led to the resignation this week of Deputy County Executive Michael Klein and the firing last week of a seasonal clerk Klein had hired two years ago.

Minority Leader Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) asked Comptroller Howard Weitzman, a Democrat, to audit the county's office of management and budget, which paid seasonal clerks Shomwa Shamapande and Charles McKinney, both Manhattan residents, a total $250,000 over the past two years while they worked in the parks department. He also asked Weitzman to audit all employees who are paid by one department but work in another and to audit all seasonal employees who live outside Nassau County.

County Executive Thomas Suozzi fired Shamapande after finding payroll irregularities and asked the district attorney to investigate.

Shamapande's time sheets show he often faxed them from Manhattan at the same time he reported being in the county working. Some of the time sheets were faxed from Klein's Manhattan home. Ten weeks of time sheets are missing. Both Shamapande and Klein have denied any wrongdoing.

Weitzman spokesman Allen Morrison said an audit is already under way of the parks department time-and-leave practices, including an examination of Shamapande's and McKinney's pay. "We will review whether any additional audits are appropriate," he said.




- CELESTE HADRICK

[Howie the Scarred]

Hes alseep. He does as Suozzola tells him. He offends people and hires political hacks too. Check HW out NOW!

[Weitzman is Impotent]

Too little too late. His first audit and his second audit - years 1 and years 2 should have caught these irregularities before it came to light in the fashion that it did. And I'm sure lots more "irregularities" are being covered up by others who will be "shocked" when they get caught.

If the man has a brain in his head he'll start another audit of the county attorney's audit and focus on the so-called administrative staffers and the satellight offices. I personally saw one of them today, driving away and it was only about 3:30 PM - "working from home" again I suppose.

Parks Dept is not alone.

Look into Communications at the NCPD...or is he ordered to stay out of there also? Lots of HQ people on that payroll that don't work in the "Dungeon of Death" but rather in a second floor office in HQ.

The DA has scratched the surface and is fishing with some heavy jigs for information. Some have spoken. With the Parks scandal just unfolding, there will surely be more to follow.

[Rice audits all timesheet]

Many arrests! Nobody left to work at the County. New employees flock in from upstate New York by amtrak.