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DOI Head Forsakes Key Programs of Peters

By ROBERT HENNELLY
Posted 4/1/19

A March 26 budget hearing for the Department of Investigation was used by City Council Members to quiz Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett about any internal fallout from Mayor de Blasio’s unprecedented termination of her predecessor, Mark Peters, last Nov. 16.

It also provided Ms. Garnett, a career Federal and state prosecutor, her first opportunity to publicly discuss the results of her assessment of the anti-corruption agency’s operations, her plans for improving its performance, and initiatives of her predecessor that she scrapped as excessive or “impeding the professional development of DOI staff.”

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