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FORMER SCHOOL SECRETARY FINED $

FOR USING P-CARD FOR PERSONAL PURC

The New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (the “BoaFindings of Facts, Conclusions of Law, and Order fining a fSecretary for the New York City Department of Education (“DOEusing a DOE procurement credit card, also known as a P-Card, to$3,000 in personal purchases, such as at gas stations and fast foobetween August 2009 and May 2011. The former School Secschool’s business manager, had been entrusted with the P-Cardpurpose of making purchases for the school.

The Board’s Order adopts the Report and RecommendYork City Office of Administrative Trials and HearingAdministrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) Alessandra F. Zorgniotti, trial. The Board found that the ALJ correctly determined thSchool Secretary misused the school’s P-Card and that, in so dthe City of New York ’s conflicts of interest law, which prohservant from using his or her City position for private financial gusing City resources, such as school funds, for any non-City p

former School Secretary resigned during the course of the invthis matter and failed to appear at the hearing at OATH; nonBoard ordered that she pay a fine of $9,000.

Scroll down to read the Board’s Findings of Facts, CLaw, and Order, or click here, and the ALJ’s Report and Reco

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Caroly

December 26, 2012 (2

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Steven B. RosenfeldChair/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 DavisSpecial Counsel &

Director of Annual

Disclosure

Alex Kipp Director of Training &

Education

Varuni Bhagwant Director of

Administration

Derick Yu Director of Information

Technology

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



DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, Special Commissioner of Investigation for tCity School District (“SCI”) Richard J. Condon, and SCI Investigator Robert

handled the investigation.

The Conflicts of Interest Board is the City’s ethics board and is charged witand enforcing the City’s the conflicts of interest, financial disclosure, and lobbyist more information about the Board, visit its website at http://nyc.gov/ethics.questions about the law is urged to contact the Board through its website or by calli1400.

The Board does not comment on its dispositions, except as set forth additional public information about the Board’s enforcement activities— including all prior enforcement dispositions and fines imposed — visit the Board’swww.nyc.gov/html/conflicts/html/units/enforcement.shtml.

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