The Mayor’s Office of Labor Relations, acting at the behest of City Comptroller Scott Stringer, since October has been depositing scheduled welfare- and annuity-fund contributions into an escrow account and late last year took over responsibility for providing prescription-drug coverage to members of the Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association.
Those moves were triggered by LEEBA President Kenneth Wynder’s refusal to file required audit reports for both funds with the Comptroller’s Office for the past two years, and his notification to members in a Dec. 17 letter that LEEBA would stop running the two funds effective that date because “we are no longer receiving funds to administer your benefits.”
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