Even with its former leader facing corruption charges, the state Assembly won’t disclose how its members are spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, a government watchdog charged on Friday. Read More
Tag: Transparency
The average FDNY firefighter retired with a pension of more than $100,000 over the last seven years, according to an analysis of pension data released Tuesday. Read More
Firefighters who retired last year are pulling in annual pensions averaging $100,636 because the majority left on disability and is collecting three-quarters of their final salaries, a watchdog group said Tuesday. Read More
New York City Fire Department (FDNY) pensions have averaged more than $100,000 for new retirees for the past seven years, according to data previously withheld by the pension fund and obtained by the Empire Center after a lengthy court battle. Read More
The state Assembly has not released expenditure reports, including per diems paid to lawmakers, for more than a year, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
Michael Israel was paid $1.85 million last year as president and chief executive officer at Westchester Medical Center, which topped an annual ranking of payrolls at public authorities in New York. Israel, who has headed Westchester Medical in Valhalla since 2005, has been the highest paid two consecutive years, having received $1.54 million in 2013, according to the rankings by the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank in Albany. The figures reflect base salary and other compensation, such as bonuses. Read More
The president and CEO of Westchester County Health Care Corporation, which operates Westchester Medical Center, was paid $1.85 million during 2014, making him the highest salaried official of any whose salaries are reported to the State Comptroller’s Office. Read More
A Westchester hospital executive was paid $1.85 million last year, the highest salary charted in the 10,357,902 payroll records on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. Read More