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2026-11-01 Government Corruption
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AG Letitia James ‘refused' to probe NYC homeless shelters funding her campaign: critics
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[NY Post] Embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James failed to probe three of the Big Apple’s most scandal-scarred homeless shelter operators — while accepting more than $56,000 in campaign donations from their top executives, lobbyists and spouses over the past eight years, records show.
Samaritan Daytop Village, Acacia Network Housing and CORE Services Group have not faced enforcement action from James’ office since she took office in 2019, critics say.
Yet over the same period, these taxpayer-bankrolled nonprofits have come under heavy scrutiny from the state Comptroller’s Office, the state Inspector General, the NYC Department of Investigation and federal authorities over alleged insider deals, lavish spending and executive payouts, inadequate oversight of taxpayer dollars and other misconduct.
In 2024, a DOI examination of 51 city-funded shelter providers — including Acacia and CORE — uncovered examples of "nepotism, lack of competitive bidding and exorbitant salaries" spread across the city’s problem-plagued, multi-billion-dollar shelter system.
The agency also singled out the attorney general as having the power to "bring action to enjoin, void or rescind" improper insider deals at nonprofits
"These are precisely the kinds of abuses the attorney general is supposed to investigate," said Republican Saritha Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor looking to unseat James in Tuesday’s general election.
"Yet while other watchdog agencies have exposed serious misconduct, Letitia James has refused to hold these operators accountable.
"The fact that individuals tied to these [three] organizations have contributed thousands of dollars to her campaigns raises serious questions about whose interests she is protecting," added Komatireddy, who has previously accused James of not holding other troubled homeless shelter providers accountable.
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