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Scandal Costs Total $423,148,021 Scandal Cost Fact Check Husband Double Weisner Water Authority Earnings (November

r $1,002,021 Dipping 2005-November 2011): $625,935 Weisner Pension Earnings (November 2005November 2011):$376086 Total Earnings from Monroe County (November 2005-November 2011): $1,002,021 Source: [Monroe County Water Authority, 7/23/12] Morone Admitted to Defrauding Taxpayers of Between $400,001 to $1 Million. In his plea agreement, Morone admitted that: The scheme defrauded Monroe County out of between $400,001 and $1 million, largely by paying workers for jobs not done or for jobs done that werent county-connected. Robutrad workers, while being paid by the county, did jobs for private individuals, ran errands for Morone, and provided help to the county GOP. He had Robutrad workers make contributions to the county GOP, then he reimbursed them with county funds. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 12/23/09] Newpower Audit $7 million Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's audit found that Monroe County created Monroe Newpower Corporation in 2002 to purchase the county's aging coal-burning plant for $7 million without getting it appraised. Source: [WHAM 13, accessed 6/27/12] Monroe Security and Safety Systems $224 million Monroe Security and Safety Systems was responsible for a $224 million upgrade of the county's emergency communications system. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 5/19/11]

Robutrad Morone

Up to $1 million

UTC

$99 million

UTC was given a $99 million contract with the county. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 11/29/11] Audit Found $7 Million Dollar Purchase By County Without Appraisal which Left County Taxpayers to Pay $33 Million in Debts. A state audit found that Monroe County created Monroe Newpower, an LDC, to purchase the countys coal-burning plant without appraising it. Monroe Newpower used $7 million dollars to cover operating expenses for the county instead and then later secured $33 million in bonds that taxpayers will have to pay for over 32 years. Source: [WHAM 13, accessed 6/27/12]

Newpower Debt

$33 million

Main and Clinton

$20 million

$20 Million Already Spend on Project Before It Was Killed.Before the Renaissance Square project died, $20 million, including $1.5 million from county taxpayers, was spent on professional services related to getting the project off the ground. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 6/23/10] Sports Centre Contemplated Bankruptcy to Cover over $10 Million in Debts. In January 2010, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported, Monroe County Sports Centre Corp., the county-created nonprofit corporation that oversees the financially troubled Sports Centre at MCC, is contemplating a "structured bankruptcy" to resolve mounting debt that tops $10 million, corporation and facility management officials have acknowledged. In the process, the officials said, another nonprofit corporation would be created to replace the Sports Centre Corp., the majority of whose seven board members are appointed by county government. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1/14/10]

Monroe County Sports Centre Corp. Debt

$10 million

FAIR Repayment

$28 million

FAIR Scandal Forced County to Repay $28 Million that Should Have Gone to School Districts. On July 7, 2008 the WXXI News reported on the FAIR scandal. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks officially buried her controversial FAIR tax plan Monday afternoon in a joint news conference with the director of the Monroe County School Boards Association, Jody Siegle. Part of Brooks' plan helped close a county deficit by intercepting 28-million dollars' worth of sales tax revenue sharing that would have gone to suburban school systems under the county's Morin-Ryan sales tax plan. The school districts responded by going to court, and the courts ruled against the county. The report continued, Brooks said the county will try to pay back the 28-million it withheld this year, but it will have to be in installments because the county doesn't have the money in hand. Source: [WXXI News, 7/9/08] Rochester Airport Director Spent $4,000 at a Strip Club and Spent $17,000 on Cigars. David Damelio, director of the Rochester Airport, charged $4,000 at to Larry Flynts Hustler Club in midtown Manhattan and tried to pass it off as a business expense, according to a review of records. During two visits to the club in August and September 2007, Damelio dropped $1,020 and $1,333, respectively. He also billed $17,000 worth of cigars. A review by Monroe County officials revealed that Damelio used an airport credit card to pay for five lavish nights out at the Hustler Club in 2007 and 2008. Brooks called the expenses inappropriate. Damelio resigned January 3. The county said Damelios strip club bill was docked from his final paycheck. Source: [Buffalo News, 1/23/11; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1/22/11]

Airport Director Misuse of Funds

$21,000

County Department of Human Services Employee Fraud

$15,000

County Employee Stole $15,000 Under Brooks Administration. In 2008, during Brooks tenure, Luis G. Pacheco, as an examiner of the Special Investigations Unit of the Monroe County Department of Human Services, helped

verify that welfare was going to eligible recipients. However, Pacheco admitted that he defrauded the county by illegally issuing more than $15,000 in benefits to several people, including former clients of the agency. He pleaded guilty to a felony of third-degree grand larceny before County Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. The plea resolved an indictment charging him with that crime as well as 16 felony counts of falsifying business records. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed that Pacheco would receive five years probation, perform 64 hours of community service and repay $15,741 to the county. In his guilty plea, Pacheco said his job gave him access to a Department of Human Services database, which he manipulated to issue debit cards to ineligible recipients from Oct. 25, 2005, to Nov. 16, 2006. Brooks administration was not reached for comment. An audit uncovered the fraud and Pacheco resigned in late November 2006 as the Monroe County Sheriffs Office began an investigation. Source: [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 8/21/08]

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