Arrest In $740M NYC Time and Attendance System Case

theodp writes "Mayor Bloomberg's perception of money, opines Gothamist's Christopher Robbins, is somewhat different than most non-billionaires. Just hours before the leader in the city's $740 million CityTime web-based time and attendance boondoggle was arrested for allegedly taking $5M in kickbacks, Bloomberg said on his weekly radio program that 'we actually did a pretty good job here, in retrospect.' Overshooting the projected $68M it would cost, adds Robbins, 'pretty much sounds like the exact opposite of a 'pretty good job'.' A US Attorney said SAIC Project Manager Gerald Denault was charged with accepting more than $5M in kickbacks laundered through international shell companies while steering more than $450M of city funds to the tech company behind the kickbacks. In December, CityTime consultants were charged with stealing $80 million."

Re:for a project that size

[Anonymous Coward]

I did a T&A system

Did you have to supply the tits and ass yourself?

Re:for a project that size

[sycodon]

Yes, but not a relational data whorehouse...now that would just be creepy.

Re:for a project that size

[lennier1]

Some dude named Upgrayedd???

Re:Capital Offense

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

If we just agreed to define, for judicial purposes, all white collar criminals as 300lb, tattooed, black men named "Tyrone"(with gang connections, if a corporation is involved), I suspect that the problem would take care of itself.