The Daily News continues to beat the drum of the relatively complex CityTime scandal currently bothering the Bloomberg administration. The latest development? Investigators are now looking at the main contractor for the project, Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), one of the biggest defense contractors around.
SAIC has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but investigators are trying to figure out how it managed to not notice that its subcontractors were stealing money out from under them. Which seems a perfectly reasonable thing to try and figure out to us.
Meanwhile, reporter Juan Gonzalez uses his story to review a whole slew of still unanswered questions about the situation. For instance, why did Joel Bondy let alleged ringleader Mark Mazer essentially run the project for years? And why did Bondy's old business partner get paid nearly $3 million in consulting fees over five years–including over 700 hours of overtime? We can't wait to find out.
