City D.O.I. Announces Arrest of City Buildings Official
The city Department of Investigations just announced the arrest of the chief of cranes and derricks from the city's Department of Buildings on felony corruption charges. It is Friday afternoon.
Here's the statement:
DOI ARRESTS ASSISTANT CHIEF OF CRANES AND DERRICKS OF CITY'S BUILDINGS DEPARTMENT ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
-- 26-year veteran inspector is charged with receiving bribes from a crane company, falsifying mobile crane inspection reports, and tampering with licensing exams --ROSE GILL HEARN, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation ("DOI"), announced today that a DOI investigation has resulted in the arrest of JAMES DELAYO, an Assistant Chief Inspector with the New York City Department of Buildings ("DOB"), Division of Cranes and Derricks, on felony corruption charges. DELAYO is charged with collecting thousands of dollars in bribes over the past eight years from a crane and equipment company for falsely reporting that the company's mobile cranes had been inspected and that its crane operators had taken and passed required practical examinations, when in fact no such inspections or practical examinations were conducted, and for providing the company with advance copies of the written examinations that would-be crane operators must pass to qualify for City licenses. This case is being prosecuted by the Office of New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau.
DELAYO, 60, a Bronx resident, has worked for DOB since 1982; his current salary is $74,224. The criminal charges he faces will be filed by the District Attorney's Office and will be available shortly.
DELAYO faces suspension from his job.Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said, "DOI's investigation revealed the profoundly disturbing and sobering realization that a senior inspector responsible for ensuring that cranes operating in New York City are in proper condition and are operated by qualified individuals is charged with selling out his own integrity in a way that compromised public safety, leaving it in the hands of the individuals who paid him bribes, and rendered his inspectional job meaningless. DOI, working closely with District Attorney Morgenthau, is vigorously pursuing this continuing corruption investigation."
DOI's investigation found, among other things, that DELAYO took money for signing-off on mobile crane inspections he did not perform, providing in advance the questions and answers for one or more "Class C" Hoisting Machine Operator exams to a crane company, and signing-off on at least one practical exam for a crane operator who did not take the exam.
To date there is no evidence in this investigation that the activity had anything to do with the crane collapses on E. 51st and E. 91st Streets.
This investigation was conducted by DOI's Office of the Inspector General for DOB.
Arrest charges and criminal complaints are merely accusations.
Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.Get the worms out of the Big Apple. To report someone ripping off the City, call DOI at (212) 825-5959.
If you want to "get rid of the worm in the apple," arrest Bloomberg, who has given the city to his developer cronies, along with taxpayer money to subsidize them in their destructive frenzy.
We like to think of ourselves as a "world class city," but in truth, under Bloomberg we've become a cheap mall for all those lucky enough to get paid in anything but dollars.
"a cheap mall for all those lucky enough to get paid in anything but dollars."
First reference I've heard to the declining fortunes of the United States of America as expressed through the value of its currency. In finance, Mr. Swindon, or is this gradually sinking in for the rest of the population.
Our past twenty five years is embarassing, our future in Argentine.
This crap is getting totally out of hand. Anything goes for a few bucks how low can peoples moral go for money. The country is on a collision course with HELL!!!!
I would like to know where and how these corrupt transactions happened? How could Inspector Delayo's staff and co workers not have known? Was there a filing clerk and filing procedures or was there open access to the files? Did the people wanting the corrupt favors come into to city hall and explain to the receptionist that they had an appointment or wanted to discuss something unsaid without an appointment or what? If the contacts took place out of city hall, where, when and how did they occur?
Is there any possibility that this particular instance of corruption had anything to do with prostitutes, strip clubs, cocaine, and/or meth-amphetamine as have become recent issues with Eliot Spitzer (also in New York), the District of Columbia (Congressmen going to brothels), Chicago, (Zezko admitted hosting parties involving cocaine and meth), and Denver (a prostitute reported attending a large orgy in a two story office downtown, Chief Federal Judge Edward Nottingham can't remember how he charged $3,000 to his AMEX at a strip club, Channel 9 News reports Judge Nottingham had prostitutes delivered to him for his sexual use on 10 occasions. One of the two locations where Judge Nottingham had the prostitutes delivered to him for his sexual use was not disclosed to the public.)
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=87702