Ed Dept. official who oversaw $43M contract (to Florida corp) resigns amid corruption investigation

A Department of Education executive who supervised a major computer consulting firm that is under investigation for possible corruption has suddenly resigned.

Judith Hederman, the $168,000-a-year executive director of the DOE's division of financial operations, submitted her resignation on May 4, DOE officials confirmed.

That was the day the Daily News reported that Richard Condon, the schools' special commissioner of investigation, had filed court papers saying a "high-level" executive at the DOE with "oversight" over the $43 million contract of Florida-based Future Technology Associates, had a "personal relationship" with one of the owners of FTA.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2011/05/13/2011-05-13_education_dept_official_who_oversaw_43m_contract_resigns_amid_corruption_investi.html


What do you think of when you think of "Florida" & "Education"?

I think of Jeb Bush.

Lots of interesting tidbits in the article, including use of Turkish labor that they billed 700% over cost for, "corporate headquarters" which are no more than PO boxes, & a lot of self-dealing/subcontracting through shell companies which turn out to all be owned by the same people.

Use of Turkish labor reminds me that the intelligence-associated Gulen "religious" run the biggest network of charter schools in the US.

Here's an earlier piece:

Web of questions arises about DOE contractors charging taxpayers for outsourced programmers
BY JUAN GONZALEZ - NEWS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A major technology contractor for the Department of Education has been using workers in Turkey and India to service the school system's computer network - and charging taxpayers $110 an hour.

Future Technology Associates paid a Turkish company $3.4 million from 2006 to 2009 to supply 12 programmers from Turkey, Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon has found. An additional three worked from India.

The Turkish firm, Krono Bilgisayar, is owned by the same two men who run Future Technology, records show.

Those execs, Tamer Sevintuna and Jon Krohe, never disclosed their ownership stake in the Turkish company, although city rules require them to list all companies they own or control.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-04-13/local/29434259_1_fta-turkish-firm-tamer-sevintuna

Bloomberg is paying tens of millions to corrupt contractors (this isn't the only example) while pleading poverty & attacking teachers & other union workers.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/nycdoe-official-linked-to-alleged.html

Ain't education deform great!