Calls for D.A. to probe Long Beach payouts [View all]
More than 80 residents and elected officials gathered in front of City Hall on July 3 to call on Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas to investigate recent separation payouts to former City Manager Jack Schnirman and other current and former em-ployees who they claim were overpaid.
County Legislator Denise Ford (R-Long Beach), State Assemblywoman Melissa Miller (R-Atlantic Beach) and others questioned whether an audit of the city’s finances announced by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office in May included a review of the payouts. Residents, they said, have received little, if any, information.
“D.A. Singas confirmed that an audit was going on, yet this was denied by the comptroller’s office,” Ford told the crowd. “It makes you wonder, what are they hiding and why aren’t they communicating? We deserve answers, and truthful ones at that.”
In April, City Council members John Bendo and Anissa Moore voted against a $2.1 million bond measure to make up for separation payouts to 62 union and non-union employees in fiscal year 2017-18 when they learned that a number of them remained employed by the city. Bendo and Moore questioned whether some non-union employees in particular — including Schnirman, who left in January with $108,000 — should have received the payments they did.
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