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Fine HA Worker $6G For Supervising Wife

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 5/4/15

A Housing Authority employee was ordered to pay the Conflicts of Interest Board $6,000 because he supervised his companion for 14 years without disclosing their relationship to his bosses.

Before he retired last year, Edwin Martinez, a Supervisor of Caretakers in The Bronx, oversaw the woman, a Caretaker, during the “not-infrequent times” her supervisor was absent, the disposition states. The pair married in 2008 after living together for years, but he didn’t inform his boss about the potential conflict-of-interest. He didn’t show up to hearings to defend himself, according to the Board.

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