no-bid bank gets $50 million, border crossers up to $10,000 each
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/in...0000-each/
Quote:Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Eric Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants.Corruption
Unusually for the mayor, Adams didn’t publicize this story himself, and his administration for nearly a month has failed to correct several public misperceptions about it.
One misperception is that the program allows the city to give out just $50 million to migrants.
No wonder the mayor has been reticent.
This debit card program — if you read the actual contract — has the potential to become an open-ended, multibillion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing, untraceable cash, used for any purpose.
It will give migrants up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check, no restrictions and no fraud control.
[b]Why give out debit cards?[/b]
When The Post exposed the mayor’s debit card program earlier this month, the mayor’s office spun it as a money-saving program, to solve a problem: Migrants staying in hotels don’t eat all their food.
DocGo, the city’s no-bid “emergency” contractor to provide migrants with three meals a day, throws away up to 5,000 meals daily, wasting $7.2 million a year.
Some food is inedible — expired or rotten — and other food doesn’t meet migrants’ dietary needs.
Providing mass-scale meals competently and with options for specific needs — halal, kosher, vegan, non-gluten — isn’t that hard: The school system does it, airlines do it, hospitals and jails do it.
It wouldn’t be that difficult for the city to solve this problem: On-site city auditors could refuse to pay for meals that are objectively inedible, with visible mold, for example, or with expired labeling.
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