Maragos: Nassau housing office wasted $6.2M

Originally published: November 16, 2012 7:29 PM
Updated: November 16, 2012 9:12 PM
By ROBERT BRODSKY robert.brodsky@newsday.com

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau Comptroller George Maragos. (March 28, 2011)

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Nassau County is on the hook for $6.2 million in unnecessary costs because of mismanagement, fraud and waste in its housing office from 2007 through 2011, according to a new report by County Comptroller George Maragos.

The report alleges that Connie Lassandro, former director of the Office of Housing and Community Development, overestimated anticipated federal revenue from the Section 8 Housing...

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