Aug 3
2012
City Hall firing follow
Comptroller Mark Schroeder said cell phone photo allegations hastened Darryl McPherson’s inevitable firing over insubordination and other performance related issues.
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Aug 3
2012
Comptroller Mark Schroeder said cell phone photo allegations hastened Darryl McPherson’s inevitable firing over insubordination and other performance related issues.
Aug 3
2012
By Jim Heaney / Investigative Post City Hall’s top fiscal watchdog was fired by Comptroller Mark Schroeder Thursday under sordid circumstances. Darryl McPherson said his departure was based on professional disagreements with his boss. But Schroeder said he fired his chief auditor shortly after he received a complaint about incidents involving inappropriate conduct by McPherson. While Schroeder was initially reluctant to discuss details, he did confirm information obtained independently by Investigative Post that the allegations involved McPherson using his cellphone to take inappropriate photos of a female staff member without her knowledge in the workplace on several occasions. “I asked[...]
Aug 2
2012
Rod Watson takes Mayor Byron Brown to task for the make up of his management team: “The near-total absence of African-Americans in his Cabinet, where policy decisions are made, is an insult to a diverse city.”
Aug 2
2012
By Jim Heaney / Investigative Post Comptroller Mark Schroeder fired the city’s chief auditor this afternoon for undisclosed reasons and ordered him to leave City Hall immediately. Schroeder said he fired Darryl McPherson over an incident, rather than his work performance, but declined to go into details. McPherson, who served as chief auditor since 2007, has a history of drunk driving arrests, but Schroeder said the incident was not alcohol related. “This is a work-related issue,” Schroeder told Investigative Post, which broke the story along with WGRZ, 2 On Your Side. “There was an incident that took place. It wasn’t[...]
Jul 20
2012
A look at the numbers behind Investigative Post’s explosive expose this week on the unwillingness of delinquent property owners to pay $22 million in Housing Court fines since 2006 and the failure of City Hall to collect those debts.
Jul 20
2012
Eileen Buckley interviews Jim Heaney on City Hall’s failure to collect $22 million in unpaid fines.
Jul 19
2012
Investigative Post identifies the biggest scofflaws who have failed to pay fines and why the court came down so heavy in the first place. Featured Thursday on WGRZ.
Jul 18
2012
You can’t get away without paying your property taxes or garbage fee or even a parking ticket without City Hall coming after you. Letting your property go to seed is another matter. Judges in City Housing Court have imposed more than $22 million in fines since 2006 against some 1,470 property owners who ignored orders to repair building and health code violations. A vast majority have ignored the fines and gotten away with it, an Investigative Post inquiry has found. Less than $800,000 in fines have been paid during that period – less than a nickel on the dollar. It’s[...]