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CityTime Crook Forfeits $2.5 Million, Only $457.5 Million Left To Go!
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jun 25, 2011
Modified Jun 25, 2011
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Good news! The ringleader of the "epic," hilarious-if-it-wasn't-true "unprecedented fraud" that is the CityTime boondoggle has been made to forfeit $2.5 million in salary that he was paid as the lead contractor for Science Applications International Corp. Perhaps he was the one determining how much he should forfeit because, um, didn't he steal $5 million? Oh well, we'll take what we can get from a "pretty good job" like this one. Only $457.5 million left to recoup!
The contractor, Gerard Denault—who looks a little too much like Karl Rove with hair—is famous for not being able to account for his own hours, thus providing schoolchildren everywhere with an easy example of the concept of irony (sorry, Alanis).
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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