The municipal hospital system took four years to investigate a manager accused of cheating on overtime — giving him time to land new gigs at other medical facilities doing the same work.
The Health and Hospitals Corp. launched a probe of Lemonte Gillead, assistant director of environmental services at Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem, in late 2009.
The slow-going probe — which wasn’t closed until January 2013 — found that he had allowed two subordinates to file for unmerited overtime using falsified time sheets.
Gillead quit that job in 2011, and he has since held similar positions at Interfaith Medical Center, Aramark Healthcare and now Mount Sinai Health System.
Several attempts to reach Gillead, who earned as much as $86,000 a year during his tenure at Metropolitan, were unsuccessful.
The two workers he was busted with also resigned.
To this day, HHC hasn’t disclosed a full summary of the investigation, despite agreeing in late 2012 that it would make the essential findings of its probes available to the public.