Comptroller says legislature chairman sets “dangerous precedent” in UCRRA case

July 7, 2021

Mid Hudson News

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“As Ulster County Comptroller March Gallagher continues her efforts to audit the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, she now says Legislature Chairman David Donaldson’s involvement is setting “an alarming precedent putting the comptroller’s oversight of hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts at risk.”

Gallagher said the documents provided by Donaldson do “appear to confirm” one thing – “that a tremendous volume of compost product was sold to a related party, UCRRA employee and brother to the director of operations, William Whittaker.””

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