N.Y.C. Severs Ties With Housing Boss Who Earned $1 Million a Year

The city will no longer work with CORE Services Group, the nonprofit run by Jack A. Brown, to provide housing and services to the homeless.

By Amy Julia Harris @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 22, 2021

New York City is severing ties with CORE Services Group, one of the largest nonprofit organizations running homeless shelters, citing the charity’s repeated management failures, conflicts of interest and excessive executive salaries.

The move came after a New York Times investigation published last month found that the chief executive of CORE, Jack A. Brown III, collected more than $1 million a year,hired his relatives and steered millions of dollars in business to for-profit companies he controlled. The city revealed it was ending its relationship with CORE late Monday in response to questions from The Times.

Mr. Brown had readily won contracts with the city even though state finance officials had concluded he had shown “a disturbing pattern of ethical violations.” He was the highest paid shelter operator in New York, according to a Times review of available records.

CORE, which has received more than $352 million in city funding in recent years, operates 15 sites of homeless housing, including shelters and hotels, around New York. The organization had ballooned in size as the city turned to nonprofit groups to open dozens of new shelters as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s homelessness policy. [....]

"hired his relatives and steered millions of dollars in business to for-profit companies he controlled". BUT probably nobody told em that was wrong because it's like standard Dem machine practice for decades! In addition, it's common practice that when a citizen goes to the recipients of such largesse for help, they basically tell them to get lost, they got other work to do.