Friday, May 12, 2017

Ponte out at DOC

From NBC:

Joseph Ponte will resign Friday, a day after Democratic City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito broke with Mayor de Blasio in calling for Ponte to step down. De Blasio has defended Ponte amid the latest allegations.

Staffers were drafting Ponte's resignation speech Thursday evening, the sources said.

Ponte, whose career in corrections has spanned more than four decades, was appointed commissioner in April 2014. The Marine Corps veteran previously led the Maine Department of Corrections, where he instituted substantial reforms. It was to Maine that the city's Department of Investigation, which investigates city agencies, officers or employees for potential corruption, alleged Ponte drove a city-owned vehicle in violation of guidelines.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I cant even imagine who the next moron will be that diblasio will put in there.

Anonymous said...

What? no penalty for violating the law?

Anonymous said...

And, next to follow on the government chopping block (better late than never!), is that scary looking de Blasio sycophant, Melissa Mark-Viverito, where BOTH herself and her crooked-and-corrupt mayor-pal now DEVALUE all honesty itself!

If THIS is their idea of honest, ethical, inclusionary, NOT FOR SALE leadership (that leads by example), then they're doing it wrong (and 'KNOWINGLY' wrong)!

❝We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.❞ —Aesop

❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —Utah Phillips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Tq9zdp9ZE...

ron s said...

Interesting how the ethics-starved Mark-Viverito called out Ponte on ethical grounds.

Anonymous said...

To use the term 'ethics-starved' for Mark-Viverito would be a generous upgrade, Ron S.——when she is BEREFT! And, now her equally crooked, sleazy and disgraced pal, Mayor 'Clueless Shithead' DEVALUE honesty itself! They BOTH give MENDACITY a bad name (whilst every hijacked-and-held-in-hostage taxpayer continues to pay the ultimate, soul-crushing price), and the public be damned (again and STILL)!

Anonymous said...

To use the term 'ethics-starved' for Mark-Viverito would be a generous upgrade, Ron S.——when she is BEREFT! And, now her equally crooked, sleazy and disgraced pal, Mayor 'Clueless Shithead' DEVALUE honesty itself! They BOTH give MENDACITY a bad name (whilst every hijacked-and-held-in-hostage taxpayer continues to pay the ultimate, soul-crushing price), and the public be damned (again and STILL)!

Anonymous said...

That this guy should get off so easy and probably get a golden parachute to boot is a crime.He should do time on Riker's and see how the other half lives. The recent expose on Riker's Island on PBS shows how mismanaged it is and is run by the gangs and the guards are not in control and are also a big part of the problem. That this guy got to run the biggest prison in the US while in Maine for 90 days and claiming not to know the law about using city owned vehicles with the support of the Mayor proves they are both clueless and both should go.