'Internal control weaknesses' remain in city's handling of computer contracts in wake of...
'Internal control weaknesses' remain in city's handling of computer contracts in wake of CityTime scandal: investigators
GREG B. SMITH
Five years after the CityTime scandal surfaced, “weaknesses” in hiring and oversight continue to pose threats to the city’s big-ticket technology contracts, a Department of Investigation analysis has found.
The DOI reviewed how the city handles large-scale computer contracts in light of CityTime — the fraud-plagued project to modernize the city’s payroll system that was projected to cost $63 million but ballooned to more than $700 million and led to prison time for three computer consultants.
“All of the weaknesses that we point out in our report may well be weaknesses in projects that are going on now,” DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said Friday in releasing the investigation. “Every big tech project going forward needs an independent monitor reviewing invoices.”
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