A POLITICALLY con nected former execu tive at Coney Island Hospital who held down four part-time jobs couldn’t account for 124 hours of time he claimed on his hospital time sheets and has been docked nearly $10,000.
But Health and Hospitals Corp. officials are taking no other action against Jerry Cammarata, who retired from his $150,000-a- year post in January.
Cammarata, who has ties to the Staten Island Republican Party, was slapped with a $1,500 fine last week by the Conflicts of Interest Board because two of his part-time jobs were with firms that do business with the municipal hospital system, a violation of the City Charter.
Ana Marengo, an HHC spokeswoman, said investigators found problematic entries on Cammarata’s time sheets after he left.
The problems were serious enough that he would have been “terminated immediately” had he not already left the payroll voluntarily, officials said.
The Post reported in January 2006 that Cammarata earned between $71,000 and $175,000 extra in 2003 working four part-time jobs, two in teaching posts and two as a speech pathologist, in addition to his full-time duties at Coney Island Hospital.
That led the HHC to launch an investigation, which took more than a year to complete.
“We found some 124 hours of questionable time and in the absence of sufficient explanation from him, we deducted nearly $10,000 from his accrued sick and vacation balance,” Marengo said.
“This closes our review.”
She said she couldn’t provide any further explanation of the time-sheet discrepancies, which amount to more than three weeks’ worth of salary.
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It wasn’t that long ago that Mayor Bloomberg was gunning for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.
“Some of them are really good,” Bloomberg said last November of the borough presidents. “There’s one that all he does is rush to the steps of City Hall to have a press conference. Doesn’t really do anything. The others really work very hard.”
My, how things have changed.
Last week, at a press conference announcing an East Harlem asthma center initiated by Stringer, the mayor sang his praises.
“I am glad to see there are some young leaders coming up in this city that have the courage to do what’s right,” the mayor said. “Borough President Scott Stringer is not sitting around. He’s trying to do something about it.”
It happens that Stringer is a major supporter of Bloomberg’s controversial congestion-pricing plan.