Bad move.
A longtime manager at the city’s technology agency moved from The Bronx to Westchester last year and then brazenly tried to pass off the cost as an official agency expense, authorities said yesterday.
He asked a city contractor who provided him with free Islander hockey tickets to file a bogus invoice with the city to cover the moving costs.
Richard Sivilich — who also flouted ethics rules by accepting discounted $10 Yankee tickets from another city contractor — resigned from his $89,126 job at the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications and paid a $5,000 fine in a settlement with the Conflicts of Interest Board.
He had earlier been demoted from his $100,000 post as director of office services when officials substantiated a federal discrimination claim against him.
Officials said that Sivilich, a city employee since 1993, asked A-1 First Class-Viking Moving & Storage, a company that does business with DOITT, to create an invoice showing it had moved city property and not his personal belongings.
Matt Schwartzberg, the company president, said no such invoice was ever sent.
“He asked us to bill the city, and we wouldn’t do it,” he said. “It was in limbo.”
Sivilich also admitted that he solicited four free tickets to an NHL game from A-1 and got four Yankees tickets for a “nominal price” from another city vendor.
Ethics rules forbid city employees from taking anything valued at more than $50 from vendors.
Finally, Sivilich admitted delivering jugs of drinking water purchased for DOITT to a car-repair shop where he knew the boss.
Reached at his home in Pleasantville, Sivilich declined comment.