Now that Bloomberg has politely asked for the city's $600 million back from the contractor involved in the CityTime fiasco (they said: maybe) and the government has seized $28.5 million in stolen funds from the defendants, US attorneys and the city's Department of Investigation are honing in on some of the city employees that made the scandal possible and oh so lucrative. "They want city officials," a source who's been questioned by authorities tells the Post, "They're brutal, the pressure they're putting on."
The mayor's former head of the Office of Payroll Administration, Joel Bondy, who resigned in December after the scandal broke, is the investigation's biggest fish. Bondy was pals with Mark Mazer, who masterminded the CityTime embezzlement scheme and engaged in kickbacks when he and Bondy both worked at Spherion, the company charged with quality assurance in the CityTime scandal. Bondy was paid a $205K annual salary for his services, and has not be charged with anything yet. Mazer has been charged along with his wife, other colleagues and their relatives for siphoning the city's money into shell companies.
Cheer up: CityTime is only used by 35% of the city's employees (totally worth it!) and the Mayor himself has said that he made a mistake in not "paying attention" to what was happening. We can't blame him: when you're worth $18 billion, your eyes don't see anything without nine zeros behind it.
