An Assistant Director of Contracts for the Department of Transportation who also worked as a pastor at a Staten Island church received more than $58,000 in church donations from contractors he oversaw.
Olakunle Ashimi, who worked at DOT’s Division of Transportation Planning and Management for 26 years, also served as president, pastor and trustee of God’s Offspring Christian Church. For seven years, he solicited donations from Iberia Road Markings Corporation and Denville Line Painting, two companies that were contracted with the city to paint pavement markings. Some of the $58,500 he received went to personal, non-church expenses such as car payments, phone bills and a trip to Africa.
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