NY town 'extremely mismanaged' tax money as 35-year Dem boss on hot seat: audit

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon | New York Post | 3/1/26

A suburban town run by one of the Empire State’s longest serving Democrats left millions in tax dollars uncollected, including property taxes that were due as far back as 1967, a bombshell new audit found.

The town of Greenburgh, which has been governed by Dem politician Paul Feiner for 35 years, has $2.6 million in unpaid parking tickets dating back at least three years, still has former town workers on the payroll, and used only a fraction of money earmarked for a new courthouse, accounting firm EFPR Group found....

A quirky figure, the 70-year-old Feiner occasionally rides his bicycle to and from work, runs some of the town’s business from his ailing mother’s Scarsdale home and once started a town-sponsored dating site.

According to the audit by EFPR Group, a prominent Rochester-based firm, he was asleep at the wheel.

The firm, which reviewed town finances from 2020 to 2023, found that $29.4 million in property taxes remain unpaid as of 2024 — including millions in tax bills that date back almost 60 years.

Among the findings is mismanagement of funds for the town’s planned new courthouse and police station.

The audit found that $39.5 million was set aside for the new criminal justice complex, but because the cash was thrown into the general fund in the budget instead of its own account, only $7.4 million has been used for the project....

Other findings include shoddy record-keeping of contingency, or emergency, budget funds, former town employees that were never purged from payroll records, and 24 former staffers who are no longer on the job but still have access to accounting and operations programs.

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