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Thursday, February 27, 2025 ~ Volume 137 ~ Issue Number 15 ~ $1.00
Kennedy Audit Finds $6.8M Fraud in Suffolk Homeless Shelters By Matt Meduri Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy (R-Nesconset) and his team have released the findings of their most recent audit: $6.85 million in misappropriated funds between the years 2016 and 2018 at the hands of several homeless shelters across Suffolk. Kennedy explained last Thursday at the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge that seventeen operators misappropriated the near-$7 million by diverting the funds for capital improvements not related to services provided to the homeless population and retroactive salary increases. The $6.85 million makes up just a small percentage of the $107.5 million that the contractors had received. Comptroller Kennedy discuss the housing audit last week in Hauppauge (Credit - Matt Meduri)
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Mattera Leads Charge to Combat Albany Climate Agenda By Matt Meduri Senator Mario Mattera (R-St. James), the Ranking Republican on the New York State Senate Energy Committee, and his colleagues in the Senate Republican Conference have introduced a legislative package to increase energy production across New York and delay green energy mandates pushed by Albany Democrats The conference also aims to provide ratepayers with increased transparency surrounding the true costs of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Continued on page 10
Senator Mattera leads the Senate Republican Conference in opposing Albany Democrats’ green energy mandates. (Credit - NYS Senate Republican Conference)
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