Providing shelter is a family affair at the city Department of Homeless Services.
The firm of Homeless Service Administrator Joslyn Carter’s sister has been awarded 17 contracts with the agency valued at a staggering $1.7 billion, according to data compiled by city Comptroller Brad Lander’s office.
Carter’s sister, Valerie Smith, is vice president of New York City Housing programs for Yonkers-based Westhab Inc., which runs homeless shelters in the city.
She has been a top administrator there since 2017.
Seventeen of the social services contracts were awarded by DHS, many in recent years with Smith working at the agency as the city grapples with a record homeless population fueled by a massive influx of migrants from the southern border.
Three others were awarded by the Department of Youth and Community Development and two by the Department of Education, totaling $4.7 million.
Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) demanded an investigation by the Department of Investigation and Conflicts of Interest Board after hearing of the unusual sibling relationship involving the city homeless services honcho and a top contractor awarded business with the agency.
Holden griped numerous times about problems at a shelter for 180 single men run by Westhab on Cooper Avenue in Glendale in his district — including complaints of drug use, violence, masturbating in public and menacing neighbors — some of which were exposed in a CBS report last September.
He suspected something was amiss when he said he failed to get an adequate response from Westhab or the city homeless officials.
“The whole thing stinks to high heaven. Why is Westhab getting all this money?,” Holden said Sunday. “It looks like they have someone on the inside. They’re protected.”
“They’re not doing a good job at the shelter on Cooper Avenue. It’s a mess over there.”
In a Feb. 8 letter to DOI and COIB, Holden said, “I recently learned from a credible source that the Department of Homeless Services Administrator Joslyn Carter is the sister of Westhab’s Vice President of New York City Shelter Programs, Valerie Smith. I am concerned that immediate family members can work on the same contract despite a potential conflict of interest.”
He told the investigative and ethics agencies that there have been 1,500 calls to 911 for the shelter and 156 resident arrests.
“As you know, corruption and criminal acts often occur in the social service industry.
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Ain’t capitalism wonderful.
Yes Capitalism is wonderful doofus !
Biden’s migrant mess now costing NYC nearly $5M a day.
I see another opportunity to lie about Trump
Freedom Cities and Baby Bonuses in Free States !
Get out of NY while you can...
Typical Biden supporter
This is DemoRat capitalism at its best.
Fake News said...
So are you going to prosecute trump for this ?
The rich and powerful criminal Uni Party organizations take turns raiding our Treasury !
I believe George Santos was running it.
P-Anon creep said...
I never meet a Q-Anon creep....
Employees of the Traitor Adminitration.
Dr. T said...
WOKE Left Faces Layoffs As Americans Return To Work!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMbzcUOUWU&ab_channel=Dr.SteveTurley
They love to grab with both hands, don't they?
Is Soros involved ?
Complete obedience leads to fascism. #BLUEANON
MAKING MONEY FEELS GOOD. BUT MULTIPLYING IT FEELS EVEN BETTER.
Ultra Straight Brad said...
Will Tish James investigate this ?
Mr. Right said...
The taxpayers geting corn holed again !
"Ain’t capitalism wonderful."
So you're equating corrupt city agencies with "capitalism."
Who cares. She's Hot!
Yikes, this is almost as rotten as the TrumpTurd family.
Find out if they're related to
Gary Jenkins & his creepy wife Randa Henry Jenkins. He's the former HRA commissioner
Who resigned because he's under investigation & who gave his wife a huge raise. She's deputy commissioner for HRA medicaid MLTC managed long term care.
She most definitely is Smiths sister...
Jail time for Financial Fraud ...Corrupted BIG(non)Profit Rats
https://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/state/new_york
Some like Bowery.org and YMCA have been around more than a century, helping homeless with private donations. The city decided to pay shelters rather than built its own. We have seen this story before, in Queens Surface Transit, where the city directed the routes, owned the buses and fired the staff, despite calling them private. THe only thing i hate more than government enterprise is government-directed enterprise.
Joe said the economy is doing quite well. For crooks....
“As you know, corruption and criminal acts often occur in the social service industry"
Now if they wanted to depose a certain former president, you can bet they would have been as giddy as a Georgia Witch foreperson to see it happen.
Voters got rid of Lightfoot. You can get rid of Adams too. He’s a gas bag in a tailored suit.
More working people will exit NYC to avoid paying this tab.
She is the better looking sister. Just saying...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in action.
This is what you get when u keep voting democrat.
Why is this not remotely surprising ?
More government is never the right answer.
Cue the leftists blaming this on white supremacists
Its shocking I tell you. Just shocking...
For democrats it is a right of passage. Next she'll be working on capitol hill.
Why are the rich white liberals the worst?
Eric Adams is creating a new agency to deal with the city's migrant crisis.
More Tax Payer Money to waste and steal ?
DHS employees are 2 times more than the homeless in the system.Most corrupt Agency in USA
"corruption and criminal acts often occur" Yep sad, very sad...
Equality of outcome ensures that there is no equality of opportunity.
Equity = Equality of outcome = global socialism = fascism
Same old shit said...
Adams creates another bureaucracy that will cost NYC untold millions and managed by more nepo hires. It will not address the issue of illegal alien invasion. Let's Go Brandon...
https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/eric-adams-falls-into-a-border-trap/
TrumpTurd said...
Nice going Brandon voters.
It still amazes me that ppl still believed the narrative.
This just makes me angry
Like the "Bling Bishop" who is deceiving his flock his good friend Swagger is deceiving the people of NYC.
Why is ANTI-CRIME Mayor so FRIENDLY with so many PRO-CRIME INDIVIDUALS? Asking for a friend.
Will AG Leetitia go after her like she did Trump ?
History Lesson said...
Our Founding Fathers (Yes Fathers) envisioned Citizens leaving their jobs as farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, doctors, etc., to go to their local state capitals and to Congress to do the job of serving the people and then returning home to go back to their work having fulfilled a service to the country. Now, they have become petty rulers in their districts; they act as though we are there to serve them, and they never leave, becoming corrupt by the power and the money they accumulate. This isn't ancient Rome; our Elected Senators and Representatives, Mayors, Govs, all serve US !
More lies from the Murdoch empire.
Prove me wrong …
You succeed to proved again that you are wrong....
The corruption goes DEEP but you are too blind to see!
One rule for them and another for us.
Life is good when the machine is behind you.
It's not the sister... it's her handlers.
Keep voting democrat and you get what you deserve.
These aren’t the democrats of the 80’s or 90’s
The dems now are American hating over the top libs who think the USSR and Cuba were just misunderstood.
@"Will AG Leetitia go after her like she did Trump ?"
Why? Putting traitors behind bars is much more important.
@"You succeed to proved again that you are wrong...."
Can you translate to Merican English, please?
And what in the BeJeepers are you talking about?
You must have gone to one of those half-baked charter schools with semi qualified teachers.
Sad ...
Give Randa Henry Jenkins a call- they're her sorority sisters. Am getting annoyed with all you Anonymous keyboard warriors. And no Latecia James is not investigating any black people .
Anonymous keyboard warrior said...
BeJeepers the only thing Sad ... is your lack of knowlege !
Stop posting hate when you are faced with facts that hurt your feelings.
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