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City Finance Commissioner Resigns
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 29, 2009
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Finance Commissioner Martha Stark turned in her resignation yesterday; in a statement (described as "terse" by the NY Times) she said, "As I serve at the pleasure of the mayor, I hereby resign... It has been my great honor to serve." Stark had been scrutinized lately for serving on the board of a real estate company outside of NYC, keeping her deputy's husband on as a parking judge while he billed the office for time he wasn't working, for her relationship with an employee at the Finance Department, and apparent nepotism. A former Finance Department employee told the Post, "She should've resigned many years ago because there's been a lot of stuff that she was doing that nobody's caught. She got a lot of people that she knew into positions [even though] they didn't know anything about the jobs." The Post adds, "Her resignation puts Bloomberg... in the awkward spot of having only two African-American commissioners—Human Rights Commission head Patricia Gatling and Veterans Affairs Commissioner Roger Newman."
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