The president of the New York City teachers' union, delivering the second sharp rebuke in as many days, yesterday accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of breaking the law by attempting to hold the much-overdue teachers' contract hostage in his campaign in Albany to eliminate the Board of Education.
Last fall, Mr. Dowd was suspended from practicing law for five years, in part for making kickbacks on a contract to collect overdue parking fines for New York City.
Mr. Leff, a lawyer whose firm had a contract to collect overdue parking fines for New York City from New Jersey drivers, was charged with paying a bribe to a former deputy director of the Parking Violations Bureau, Geoffrey G. Lindenauer.
The crackdowns come amid Investigations of corruption allegations in New York City's Parking Violations Bureau, including charges that some of the agencies paid bribes for contracts to collect overdue parking fines.
This is a tall order because the economy should slow or contract (historically we are overdue for this) and the deficit will balloon even higher.
Finally, home-based support services will get the recognition and contracts they are long overdue.
A larger factor, they say, is the teachers' union contract, which is 16 months overdue.
The union argues that since it has no control over who governs the school system, its contract -- already 16 months overdue -- should not hinge on that issue.
This is usually six weeks' rent, withheld until the end of your contract in case there are any overdue payments or damage to the property.
In addition to companies that specialize in collecting money from consumers for personal, family or household debt, the consumer bureau will begin monitoring debt collectors that contract with the Education Department to collect overdue student loans.
Revelations about the Parking Violations Bureau indicate that its top officials may have received as much as 2 million dollars in bribes during the Koch era for awarding lucrative contracts to private companies that collect overdue parking fines.
