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Report: Homeless Outreach Group Took MTA for a Multi-Million-Dollar Ride

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 8/7/19

A top union official is blasting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for creating “a largely fictional narrative regarding assigned overtime” while it failed to hold a politically connected social service nonprofit accountable for not delivering on a multi-million-dollar homeless-outreach contract for at least four years.

Last month, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released a blistering audit that covered from Jan. 2015 through Feb. of 2019 of a contract that the transit agency has with the Bowery Residents Committee, a nonprofit that took millions from the agency but largely failed to perform homeless outreach in places like Penn Station and Grand Central Station.

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