More than a month after Suffolk Legislator and Assembly Candidate Dan Losquadro joined New York State Assembly and legislative Republicans at the Hicksville train station to demand a forensic audit of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Assemblyman Marc Alessi have at last joined in demanding the MTA be held accountable – or so it seems.
The State Comptroller announced August 30 that he was launching a “Forensic Audit of MTA Overtime Spending,” though makes no mention of Alessi in the posted news release. In an undated news release sent by Alessi on September 7, he claims a joint announcement. Clearly, his claim is not accurate and comes eight days after DiNapoli’s news release and more than a month after Legislator Losquadro demanded the troubled transit agency undergo a full and transparent accounting of its financial health.
And despite Alessi’s assertions in the campaign news release that “I have been calling for this audit for years,” there are no news releases on his member website going as far back as September 2005 attesting to that fact.
Assembly Candidate and Suffolk County Legislator / Minority Leader Dan Losquadro, Assemblyman Michael Montesano (R,I,C- Glen Head), Dean Murray (R,C-East Patchogue), Assemblyman Andrew Raia (R,I,C-East Northport), Nassau County Legislator Rose Walker; Town of Oyster Bay Councilman Anthony Macagnone; and Lionel Chitty, President of the Hicksville Chamber of Commerce all stood at the Hicksville train station on August 2 to demand the troubled transit agency undergo a full and transparent accounting of its financial health.
“I am glad The Comptroller and assemblyman have joined with us in calling for an audit of the MTA,” Losquadro said, “even though it is limited to overtime spending. I hope that perhaps in another month, they will join us in the call for a full forensic audit of the agency to determine how our tax dollars are being wasted.”
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