City Fires Worker For Alleged $11K Theft

The $11,000 in unauthorized charges all went to one local hotel? (Also unnamed?)

Hmmm. Were there any other City personnel involved?

Good start - time to fire the mayor too. The city ended the year with $15 million in unauthorized expenditures showing a massive deficit. Makes the $11,000 look kind of puny.

And then there is the matter of $500,000 in raises - 10 to 37% for her favorite employees and enabling inner circle. None of those raises were budgeted, disclosed or authorized.

But wait! there's more! - Now the mayor is handing out clothing to her personal staff so they can all look like robots in the mayor's office: See this story: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/New-Haven-uses-taxpayer-money-to-clothe-personnel-13177732.php
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And about that China trip - the one she told the NHI was costing $20,000 - but revised it for WTNH's Mario Boone to $30,000 but when forced to release the documents - found it to be $50,000!.

Sure hope the city got this one right. The last time the mayor said there was a crook among us and referred her to prosecution by the FBI and Justice Departments - it was a flop. The labor department ruled against the city too and after more than three years, the employee remains on leave, has not gotten her job back and most certainly, not her reputation back that Mayor Harp destroyed. God only knows what the legal bills are so far...

Uniformed receptionists in the mayors office? What does she think her office is, a hotel?
Really, really clueless.

Completely tone-deaf of the mayor to have all of these unnecessary expenditures (there's also the OT for her chauffeur) when taxes are going up. I'm glad I'm no longer a New Haven taxpayer.

I will bet my last dollar that the theft and unauthorized spending that is being reported in the news barely scratches the surface of the corruption within this administration. It's time for a full blown investigation. Wait, I can't bet my last dollar, I just mailed it to city hall to cover the tax increase.

The employee that was accused of theft also received a tax payer funded "uniform". See the story on WTNH for details. Only in New Haven, folks.
Tone Deaf Harp strikes again.

How much are those Mayoral aides getting paid? Buying their own professional clothes isn't part of the job description? (Like it is for 99.9% of white-collar America!)

Completely outrageous, especially given the budget fiasco.

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This woman and her peers is a union employee and the Mayor is giving away more stuff without bargaining. She's completely outta touch. Where is the union outrage that money was diverted from a publica safety agency and sent to fund some whimsical idea the queen of West China had?

By the way can we get the data on how many jobs were created by the trip to China and how many Chinese businesses are flocking to new haven as a result of that tax payer funded junket?

Is it THAT easy to steal in the city offices????!!!!

Per WTNH Mayor Harp: "In most places I've worked, those who greet and interact with the public have worn uniforms..." Anyone know where she worked in the past?

This is rich, really rich. She worked for Harp for 4 years; then moved to Jason Bartlett - the same guy who has gotten three raises in two years - all of them questionable in terms of legality and certainly without moral or even BOA approval. Not one of them disclosed to the public, to the budget. Why wouldn't this woman feel entitled to steal?

Drain the Swamp!!!!!

Would it be against NHI policy to reveal which sorority he/she belonged to?

What hotel? The news media say that the Mayor's Office is withholding that information. Why? Is there something more incriminating? Some other City employee involved?

And she was dining at the hotel too! Can we know what kind of meals we treated her to, and was she dining solo?

I believe Not Worthy May be on to something. An investigation should be conducted.

Brenda: In case you haven't been reading the national and world news. Trump started a tariff war with China. Harp had billions and billions of dollars of investment and hundreds of thousands of jobs all lined up to be created by Chinese firm she met on her trip. The fault for all that ails New Haven lies firmly with Trump. Harp has zero responsibility. (sarcasm, but Harp will blame Trump anyway.)

If you take their uniforms away the stock market will collapse

Let's get to the truth here. These expenditures span multiple months. Why isn't an expense ledger submitted by every employee who is issued a city credit card? Why have these bills been paid without any questions to the charges on the credit card invoice? I'll tell you why. Because the Mayors office doesn't require it. There was no audit, in the spirit of the word, being done. The Harp administration was going through credit card invoices because someone FOI'd all credit card invoices that multiple city staff has. They were trying to prepare for the onslaught of questions about lunches, dinners and everything else that we taxpayers foot the bill for. They were originally going to sweep this under the rug and ask her to pay it back when they thought it was only a couple thousand then they discovered the rest of it and they were forced to act because It was to much to spin.

As for the uniforms for the Mayor's office staff. The asinine explanation that people who greet people are dressed like this is unreal. No other city in Connecticut does this. And if you were going to do this why not start with the tax office or Human resources where people apply for jobs or traffic and parking where people pay tickets. Far more people go to those offices than the Mayors. Who walks in that office?

The City of New Haven is a rudderless ship. Unfortunately the only place more incompetent and out of touch than Harp is the Board of Alders. What will they do about this. The same thing they always do. NOTHING!

This little credit card theft comes right out of Jason Bartlett's Department of Youth Services.

C'mon Paul -- you can do a little better with the story here in the name of 'ethical reporting'.
These are supposedly 'public servants', after all.

RECALL THE MAYOR!

How much will it cost when the teachers ask for a professional uniform stipend in their next contract? The police get them, the firemen get them, and apparently city hall staffers get them so why not teachers?

With that scenario hotel/ room charges I guarantee theirs others culprits involved!! The inquiring minds want to no..Why want the city give up the info??. .This craziness keep happening over and over again...So what's up for the next episode of incompetence and alleged thievery in City Hall..?? Just asking ??

Bill: Paul's supported Harp & company's China junket, because, he said, it's good for officials to travel and see the world. I don't disagree that travel expands one's viewpoints, but it should be done one one's own dime. Greenwich, with its hedge funds, has far more international business links than New Haven, and far more money, but I doubt its First Selectman would ever consider using town tax dollars to take himself and his senior staff to China.

Let me start off by saying the person was wrong but you know you are getting screwed by your employer and it's being done right in your face and some people can only take but so much. Working in local, county, state and federal government it's not as easy as people thing because their is so much CRAP that goes on in your face and then behind the scenes that they think people don't see because of there arrogance. This person may have been one of those people that helped make people look good and just got feed up with the CRAP after all those years and decided to take a bite out of the Elm City,
yes they were wrong but there has been bigger waste in this city. Lets look at it this way everyone feels there under paid but after says let me get mine there the baddest person. You people don't know the real story. Case closed.

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Sorry, is the story thicker than what's being presented here or is one of the NHI's journalists siding with an embezzler?

posted by: Babz Rawls Ivy on August 24, 2018 9:21pm

Beloved, wherever you are, you are not alone. There are folks in the ready to support you and be with you and help you.

You are right about that.

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy

All these comments are just noise. NOISE by people who are hiding behind the right of anonymity. You know me. You know what I have walked through.

All the comments are just noise? For real.I do not think it is noise.I think it is more of people who are tired of Thieves in government and rightful so.It was her who was hiding behind the right of anonymity when she used unauthorized charges to a city credit card.


There is Iight on the other side. God has you… Cowardly comments do not.

There is light on the other side.She can always run for office or get a radio show..This seems to be the norm,When it comes to Thieves in government in coming out of Jail.

I have one question and one statement. Is there any integrity to be found throughout this administration? When someone we love does wrong we can love them,expect them to acknowledge they did something very wrong and expect them to take responsibility for their wrongdoing.