Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalls audit of nearly $13B in no-bid NYC education contracts

Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalled Tuesday on handing over details of more than $12 billion in Department of Education contracts — a day before a City Council deadline to share documents or else face a subpoena. Hizzoner contended officials needed time to redact sensitive information in the documents pointedly demanded by Council Speaker Julie Menin in a scathing letter last week.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalled Tuesday on handing over details of more than $12 billion in Department of Education contracts — a day before a City Council deadline to share documents or else face a subpoena. Hizzoner contended officials needed time to redact sensitive information in the documents pointedly demanded by Council Speaker Julie Menin in a scathing letter last week. “The City Council will have these contracts in the coming weeks, and, you know, the long-standing New York City public school posture has been that when sharing contracts with an external body, that they would go through a vendor review and a redaction process,” he said during an unrelated press conference with Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. “We know that the Council is an oversight body.
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- Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalled Tuesday on handing over details of more than $12 billion in Department of Education contracts — a day before a City Council deadline to share documents or else face a subpoena. Hizzoner contended officials needed time to redact sensitive information in the documents pointedly demanded by Council Speaker Julie Menin in a scathing letter last week.
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