Discipline
Center directors improperly transferred cases to inflate job placement
statistics.
Two job center directors and a deputy director were charged with improperly transferring cases from other job centers in order to increase their own center's job placement statistics. Respondents admitted that they participated in the scheme but that they did so under pressure of meeting agency-wide goals. ALJ John B. Spooner found that the respondents violated agency rules. He denied respondents' motion to dismiss a portion of the charges as time-barred, finding respondents' conduct fell within the crimes exception to the 18-month limitations period in section 75 of the Civil Service Law, i.e, respondents committed the crimes of official misconduct and computer tampering.
Health & Hospitals Corp. (Harlem Hospital Ctr.) v. Wise, OATH Index Nos. 1679/13, 1680/13, 1681/13 (Jan. 3, 2014).