Hochul Is Trying to Silence New York’s Constitutional Watchdog
New York’s Constitution created the Office of the State Comptroller for a simple reason: taxpayers deserve an independent watchdog over government spending. The Comptroller was deliberately designed to be independent of the governor and the executive branch. The office exists to ensure that the same officials who spend taxpayer money are not the only ones […]
Mayor Mamdani’s Socialist Agenda Opens the Door to Fraud
New Yorkers are once again reading headlines about billions of dollars lost to fraud. Not in some distant state, but here at home. A recent report revealed that New York’s Medicaid Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program alone lost more than $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds. These stories no longer shock the public. They’re used to […]
Silence Is Complicity: How New York’s Comptroller Would Let Anti-Israel Activists Hijack New York’s Future
New York’s $291 billion public pension fund exists for one reason: to provide secure retirement benefits for police officers, firefighters, and public workers who devoted their careers to this state, and it must not be used to advance radical ideological agendas. That is why a recent proposal by Democratic Comptroller candidate Raj Goyle to divest […]
New York’s Rising Debt and the MTA Problem We Pretend Is Separate
New York State’s debt trajectory is becoming one of the most significant risks to its long-term fiscal stability, yet it is rarely discussed in plain terms. The danger is not only the amount of debt being carried today, but the combined weight of State debt and Metropolitan Transportation Authority debt, how quickly both are growing, […]
New York Can’t Prosper If Upstate Is Left Behind. Here’s How We Fix It.
For decades, New York State has lived with a widening economic gap. Downstate, driven by finance, tech, and service industries, continues to thrive. But many of our Upstate communities, the same cities and towns that once powered the nation, have seen a slow and painful erosion of jobs, opportunity, and population. Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Binghamton, […]
New York’s Pension Fund Is Leaving Billions on the Table — Here’s How We Fix It
New York’s pension fund is one of the largest public retirement systems in the United States, managing approximately $291 billion on behalf of more than one million public workers and retirees. The fund is stable, and benefits are currently secure, but it is not performing at the level that the world’s best-managed funds consistently achieve. […]
Fraud Is Draining New York. Accountability Must Start at the Top.
New York is losing billions of dollars every year — not because we lack resources, but because we lack oversight. Fraud, waste, and mismanagement have become routine across the state’s largest programs, and Albany has grown dangerously comfortable looking the other way. The result is predictable: taxpayers pay more, public services deliver less, and retirees […]
Comptroller DiNapoli, It’s Time to Audit NYC
I have spent my career building companies and working in finance, managing teams, investors, and public funds where every dollar must be justified and every decision must withstand scrutiny. In the private sector, every public company is audited every quarter. Every number is verified, every discrepancy is investigated, and every leader is held accountable for […]