FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Carolyn Lisa MillerAugust 22, 2012 (212) 442-1419FORMER NETWORK LEADER FINED $4,000FOR ATTEMPTING TO CAUSE A SCHOOLPRINCIPAL TO HIRE AND RETAIN HIS WIFEFOR A TEACHING POSITION
The New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (the “Board”) and theNew York City Department of Education (“DOE”) concluded a settlementwith the former Network Leader of the Children First Network #208 (“CFN#208”) who used his position with the DOE to obtain an advantage for hiswife. As part of his official DOE duties, the Network Leader was responsiblefor providing operational and instructional support to DOE principals withinthe CFN #208 Network. The former Network Leader admitted that, in oraround February 2011, while assisting a Principal within his network toprepare for a New York State Education Department Title 1 Audit, hediscussed his wife’s qualifications for an open teaching position at thePrincipal’s school with the Principal with the intent of causing his wife to behired for the position, which she was. Furthermore, the former Network Leader admitted that, in or around June 2011, after being informed by thePrincipal that his wife’s position at the school would be excessed due tobudgetary constraints, and with the intent of causing the Principal to retainhis wife in her position at the school, the Network Leader directed asubordinate staff member to inform the Principal that his wife’s positioncould not be excessed.The former Network Leader acknowledged that his conduct violatedthe City’s conflicts of interest law, which prohibits a public servant fromusing or attempting to use his or her position to obtain any private or personaladvantage for himself, or for any person with whom the public servant isassociated. A copy of the disposition is attached here.All of the Board’s
dispositions are available free of charge, in full-text searchable form, on thewebsite for the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School.(www.CityAdmin.org).
Dave Jaklevic, Assistant Counsel for Enforcement, handled this casefor the Board. Theresa Europe, Deputy Counsel to the Chancellor, handled
Steven B. Rosenfeld
Chair/Board Member
Monica Blum
Board Member
Andrew Irving
Board Member
Burton Lehman
Board Member
Erika Thomas-Yuille
Board Member
____________Mark Davies
Executive Director
Wayne G. Hawley
Deputy Executive Director & General Counsel
Carolyn Lisa Miller
Director of Enforcement
Julia Davis
Special Counsel & Director of Financial Disclosure
Alex Kipp
Director of Training & Education
Varuni Bhagwant
Director of Administration
Derick Yu
Director of InformationTechnology
CITY OF NEW YORKCONFLICTS OF INTEREST BOARD
2 Lafayette Street, Suite 1010New York, New York 10007(212) 442-1400Fax: (212) 442-1407 TDD: (212) 442-1443
this matter for DOE. The Board gratefully acknowledges the work of its confidentialinvestigative arm, the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI”), DOI CommissionerRose Gill Hearn, Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District(“SCI”) Richard J. Condon, and SCI Investigator Marie Zolfo, who handled the investigation.The Conflicts of Interest Board is the City’s ethics board and is charged with interpretingand enforcing the City’s conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, and lobbyist gift laws. Formore information about the Board, visit: http://nyc.gov/ethics.Anyone with questions about the
law is urged to contact the Board through its website or by calling (212) 442-1400.The Board does not comment on its dispositions, except as set forth above. For additionalpublic information about the Board’s enforcement activities—including summaries of all priorenforcement dispositions and fines imposed—visit the Board’s website:www.nyc.gov/html/conflicts/html/units/enforcement.shtml
Search History:
Result 00 of 00
00 results for result for
p.
COIB Press Release & Disposition (DOE)
476
Reads
0
Readcasts
6.8K
Embed Views
Recommended
More From This User
Notes
Load more
