NYC comptroller strips Mayor Eric Adams of power to strike emergency migrant service deals with contractors without approval - as city spends $1.7BN catering to 146,000 asylum seekers who have flooded Big Apple

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 5 2023 | ALEX HAMMER

[knighthawk]

A New York City comptroller has revoked Mayor Eric Adams’ emergency right to make deals with contractors for migrant services without prior approval.

Comptroller Brad Lander’s office made the revocation known in a letter dated this past Thursday, three months after he retroactively rejected a $432million, no-bid contract with a for-profit medical services firm accused of mistreating migrants.

The mayor's office has previously said the loss of such a power would slow down its response to the ongoing migrant crisis, which has seen more than 140,000 asylum seekers arrive in The Big Apple since spring 2022.

[BigFreakinToad]

Hahahahaha!!

[Liz]

That is funny......

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Mayor Adams got the news.

[Tell It Right]

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Mayor Adams cousin or friend learned he wasn’t getting the no-bid grift contract.

[Liz]

LOL......you nailed it.

[Glennb51]

1.7 billion divided by 146000 illegal aliens comes to 11,643,835.61 per illegal

[T Ruth]

'After a careful review, we are declining to approve this contract due to numerous outstanding concerns.'

Immediately afterward, Adams used his mayoral right to override the comptroller's objection, stating that the city would continue to honor the nine-figure contract,

[monkeyshine]

I think you missed (or added) a zero somewhere. I figure it at $11,643 per migrant.

But that’s just city money. Who knows how much state and federal money is flowing.

[Glennb51]

Thank you for pointing that out.

I must admit its not the first time

[Chode]

[frank ballenger]

You know those maps to the homes of famous people they sell in California?

Give all the illegals maps to Mayor Adams’ place. Tell his servants to set up some extra plates for them and put some mattresses on the floors.

[caww]

Infighting about money - who’d have guessed! LOL

[caww]

I understand the illgals won’t go to the tent areas Adams had set up...they want the comforts of the hotels.

[metmom]

The money is m mostly going to line someone’s pockets.

[metmom]

I wonder what the mayor’s cut is.

[Chode]

and 90% of that is overhead...

[frank ballenger]

Yes. A gold foil wrapped Godiva chocolate on a Giza 45 Percale Egyptian cotton pillow case and a breakfast from room service of avocado toast, poached eggs and fresh squeezed orange juice is a great way to greet the new day.

[oldtech]

My thought is that all these illegals should have had it made perfectly clear to them to expect absolutely nothing if they managed to sneak into the U.S. Biden, Mayorkas & others screwed that up royally & now look at the mess we are in. They should be prosecuted.