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October 3, 2011

Government Probe Confirms Major New York Public School Corruption Scandal 
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A new government probe has corroborated the disclosure of a major
corruption scandal within the New City public school system. The Special
Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City Public School
District has confirmed that the firm Future Technology Associates has
charged taxpayers between $110 to $140 dollars an hour for the wages of
workers it was actually paying ten times less. The workers were employed
at dummy companies based in India and Turkey. To date Future Technology
Associates has received $74 million dollars in school system contracts.
The scandal has led to the resignation of one school official involved
in the fraud and company owners are expected to be indicted in the
coming weeks. The report repeatedly cites the work of Democracy Now!
co-host and Daily News correspondent Juan Gonzalez, whose exposure of
the fraud kick-started the investigation two years ago.



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