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Fire Inspector Signed Off On Boilers, Never Looked At Them
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Ben Muessig
Published Feb 26, 2010
Modified Feb 26, 2010
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An FDNY fire prevention inspector has been accused of claiming he was inspecting boilers when he was really just sitting in his car. Robert Stewart, 40, has been hit with 38 counts of falsifying records for lying about examining boilers in 19 Queens residences when he would actually just fill out the necessary paperwork without leaving his vehicle.
Authorities from the city's Department of Investigation and the FDNY learned that Stewart never checked to see if the boilers met the city's fire code, according to ABC. "This inspector fundamentally breached his professional duty to enforce fire safety rules and maintain truthful records and needlessly risked safety," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. Stewart, an FDNY employee since 1999, has been suspended without pay, according to the Daily News.
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