February 20, 2019
Posted February 20, 2019
New York City will pay $5.3 million to resolve claims that the city sought FEMA recovery funds for certain city-owned vehicles claimed to have been damaged during Superstorm Sandy. However, the city provided inadequate training to officials regarding the identification of vehicles damaged as a result of the storm, and officials made no effort to inspect the vehicles or determine whether the claimed damage was, in fact, a result of Sandy. Many of the vehicles for which the city sought full replacement costs had been nonoperational prior to the storm. USAO SDNY
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