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20 Years In Prison For CityTime Crooks Who Defrauded NYC Taxpayers Out Of Millions
The scam's mastermind, Mark Mazer, is said to have raked in a whopping $30 million in kickbacks.
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John Del Signore
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Three Convicted In Brazen CityTime Fraud Scandal
It's one of the biggest scandals in city history.
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Jen Chung
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Bloomberg Still Claiming $700 Million CityTime Fraud Mess Was So Awesome
Once upon a time, CityTime was supposed to save the city $60 million, but NYC ended up paying over $700 million more.
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Jen Chung
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Former City Employee Made 20K Minutes Worth Of Personal Phone Calls
A city employee resigned yesterday after it was found that she ran up nearly 20,000 minutes of personal calls on her work-provided cell phone.
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Christopher Robbins
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Even Steven: $500 Million Settlement From CityTime Scandal Saves City Budget!
When life gives you a billion-dollar boondoggle, use the settlement to make budget-saving lemonade!
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Garth Johnston
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Billionaire NYC Mayoral Wannabe John Catsimatidis Carries Same Gun As James Bond
We spoke to Catsimatidis (who carries the same gun as James Bond) about whether he'll actually run for mayor, Stand Your Ground laws, and how, despite his outsized personality, he's really a "plain vanilla person."
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Christopher Robbins
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NYC's New 911 System Will Be 7 Years Late, $1 Billion Over Budget
The city's attempt to consolidate its emergency communications system was supposed to be done in 2008 at a cost of $1.3 billion. Now it scheduled to end in 2015 at a cost of $2.3 billion.
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Garth Johnston
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CityTime Contractor Paying NYC $500 Million To Make Scandal Go Away
The CityTime scandal, arguably the biggest boondoggle of Mayor Bloomberg's three terms even if most New Yorkers greeted it with a shrug, is starting to wrap up.
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Garth Johnston
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CityTime Contractor Gets Around To Firing People Who Wasted NYC's $600 Million
Eleven people were indicted in December on charges of corruption. But don't worry, SAIC has conducted an internal review, and found "failures of management" that could no longer be abided.
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Christopher Robbins
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CityTime's Sequel: How Bloomberg Wasted Another $297 Million
$363 million has been spent on Nycaps, a plan to "modernize" the personnel information on the city's employees that originally was budgeted for $66 million in 2002.
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Christopher Robbins
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