Friday, July 9, 2010

Steve's barking at NYS Attorney Generals Office

The papers of New York State are given credit to Attorney General Cuomo as to Pension abuse or as he tried to put it overtime abuse to pad the pension.
I've read the press release, and I've seen the report. As an ex-auditor let me say that it's a simple desk audit that at best 75 hours should be allocate to this audit. That's right audit, not an investigation which should be what the Attorney Generals office should be doing.
Did the Attorney General discover any fraud? The answer is a resounding no. Did it get the general public  riled up against government workers. The answer is a resounding yes.
If he was looking for fraud he would have to allocate 10000 hours to compare every former worker who is getting a pension was on the payroll prior for five years prior to requesting a pension.
Was an investigation underway to determine if that overtime wasn't needed in those departments that were giving it.
Nothing in the audit indicated how much over time was given in the departments five years prior to looking at  those former employees who received overtime in large excess then previous years.
None of those who received overtime that help give the ex-employees did anything illegal contract and civil service law grants the way overtime is metered out. The Attorney Generals office should know that.
The fact that the report later states that contracts are the reason the way overtime is metered out.
Audits like these are the job of the comptrollers office not the Attorney Generals Office.
This audit coming out of the Attorney Generals Office is a total waste of money. One can draw the conclussion that Andrew Cuomo is pandering to the lowest members of the voting public.

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