The city’s anti-corruption agency has more manpower to bust crooked pols.
Mayor de Blasio boosted the Department of Investigation’s budget by 20 percent — to $27.6 million from $21.9 million — DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said Friday, adding he’d hire 63 new staffers to work under the NYPD inspector general and analyze databases of contracts to find government waste and abuse.
“The department has access to every scrap of data in the city of New York, and in the computer age we have access to that information without anybody even knowing we’re necessarily looking at it,” he said during a lecture at New York Law School.
Peters said that his office has been involved in an investigation that led to Councilman Ruben Wills’ indictment this week on charges of stealing $30,500 in government funds.
DOI investigators also played a major role in uncovering millions of dollars in fraud in the CityTime payroll scandal.