Anybody in COMPUTER BUSINESS ? Where Price Doesn't Matter--

[MegalosSkylaki]

It took some articles in NY NEWSDAY, a NYC/ Long Island tablod newspaper from which the following article is excerpted to get the attention of the Queens DA office.[Queens is one of NYC's 5 boroughs.] V V V v V v V [Edited for brevity.]


Four years ago, [Frank] Mosco, then a 27-year old entrepreneur at the ambitiously named computer firm Web Wide World Industries grew indignant, then suspicious, when school board officials consistently rejected his low bid to install computer labs in 19 public schools in southeast Queens. Mosco spent months attempting to alert city and state authorities to a bidding process he knew was corrupt.

Last month, the Queens district attorney announced five guilty pleas in the case including those of former schools superintendent C.M., 61; Williston Park attorney R.S., 46; and K.T., 36, who is president of Melville-based Business Innovative Technology Inc., which improperly won the bids. Also pleading guilty were Miller's husband, W.H., 84, and a Queens businessman, T.K., 53.

According to the DA, "Between January 1, 1995, and October 31, 2000, they engaged in a scheme to defraud the school district in which they submitted false and collusive bids, gained insider information and influenced competing bidders in order to assure that BIT was awarded District 29 school computer contracts."

As part of what officials called a settlement "without precedent" in Queens, the five who pleaded guilty agreed to pay a combined restitution of $4.8 million in the next six years, starting with an initial payment of more than $1 million. In return, they will be spared jail time when they appear before a judge for sentencing next month.

For Mosco, who lost his company and endured a related edivorce and custody battle through the investigation, the guilty pleas and proposed sentences ring hollow, amounting to a "cheap, long-term loan" for those convicted.

Some parents, who first complained about the subpar computers in 1998 only to be spurned by the city Board of Education, are no happier.

No Board of Education officials were indicted int he case,, though Mosco had suspicions that some were enablers.

Actually the COMPUTERS were characterized as "CRAP".

I got this from an acquaintance, but the NEWSDAY Nov. 11, 2002 Article about "whistleblowers" will cost you a bit , so I didn't post a Linkey. Feel free to go to NYNewsday ARCHIVE and pull Frank Mosco.

I Posted a Thread earlier on Prison Farms for White Coller criminals. These didn't even get the "farm" !

Imagine somebody mugging you and they getting giving back your watch and $50 as the penalty ! No mention of the City employees losing their Pensions.

So the message is , "If you get caught stealing, you'll have to give it [or some of it] back. WOW !

And strange that the well-connected Unity Caucus which runs the Teachers Union and draws double-pay/pensions from BOTH the Public Ed. System AND ALL the teachers , members or not, didn't know about what was going on in that District [there are 34 in NYCSchool System]....

Hmmm..I think I'll try to get his Email addy....

Remember the Artist who got busted last year for painting an American Flag on a NYC School District HQ School that refused to follow NYS law to fly the Flag ? I wonder what his sentence was ? Having to pay for its effacement ? Or something stiffer?

MegalosSkylaki

[MegalosSkylaki]

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[CERuppel]

This sort of craqp from scholl boards is nothing new to me, here in Oakland county michigan.

You see a recent millage was passed in order to allow the schools to continue to have special education programs. Seems that the nearly 2 million for the programs is just too much.

But the millage is one of those "you should have read the fine (and unpublished) print" type. The school board is getting a brand new thirty (?) million dollar office building all of its very own. Along with nearly doubling thier salaries every three years, chauffuers, vacations, paid this, given that...

And on top of it all: Even though the millage passed the special ed programs are going to be all but completely shut down.

Oh, and I should mention that this is one of the many such pieces of stupidity around here. It just happens to be the one in the papers this week...

Or try looking into the "bidding" for the detroit metro airport. Any of the bidding, for any contract. Sealed bids accepted by appointed for life board members that do not have to reveal any of the bids or contracts to anyone at any time (not kidding). Just who appointed these minor 'gods' and how do I get annointed?

[LarrySamDavid25]

@#Y%&*(@#%*()!#&*!!#

That's all I can say

[caddmannq]

We get a lot of that crap out here too.

One local school district was receiving state funds to run a school that never even existed except on paper. And even the "paper" school was dodgy at best.

When the school board was called upon to submit a list of the student's names, they hadn't even bothered to compile a fake list of students!

It was found that the school district had purchased more cell phones than they had employees to operate! None of the teachers or office staff interviewed has a school supplied cell phone. Where did they all go?

[MegalosSkylaki]

We have a million students in the School System here, many of them chronic truents.

The ratio of students to Teacher is 15 : 1, sorta like wealthy suburban school districts.

Yet, class sizes are about 30 to 50. With about 65,000 Teachers, where did the other 30,000 Teachers go?

Running personal errands for Educrats ? Like a Principal who had a $100 an hour babysitter--a School Psychologist , and four staff member working on personal projects?

In Offices working on ..err..Corriculum Development ?

Chancellor Ray Cortines who came and went from CA asked that question . He was told nobody knew beacuse there were three seperate Computer Systems that could NOT communicate with each other .

I think he went public with what was the correct answer: they were deliberately designed that way .

It takes a Computer Whiz to lose 30,000 Teachers.

DOOOOG