Kamar Samuels is now enmeshed in a personal scandal — and a far larger systemic one.
Both were on display this week as his Department of Education minions tried the old “dog ate my homework” excuse as they refused to share contracting information with the City Council .that it would “take months” to produce the info for the council, as it’s all on “a secure system that very few people have access to.
” If that’s not an outright lie, then the DOE has no way to monitor these outlays for fraud, waste or other abuse — which is even“I mean, this should take like an hour of work to do,” Speaker Julie Menin rightly summed up of the DOE’s “inability” to cough up the info.exclusively that Samuels had approved a $180,000 no-bid contract with a non-DOE-approved vendor — and then let a subordinate take the fall.
Samuels allegedly authorized the contract — then split the payments into $25,000 chunks in an apparent effort to circumvent reporting rules, and finally killed the contract early after it began to attract notice because the contractor had provided a teacher already banned from the city’s schools. The New York Times, catching up this week , reports the Special Commissioner of Investigation has opened a probe into Samuels.
We imagine this is only one example of what could come out if the DOE actually came clean with its contracting info.limiting the use of no-bid emergency contracts to put an end to an abuse-ridden system, has every right to go on the warpath. Hmm: For that to be true, he’d have to think that the true purpose of New York City’s public schools is simply to enrich those with the right connections; pretending to educate the kids is just a cover for all the scams.
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