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The office of auditor general, created by former Mayor Edward I. Koch in response to the city's corruption scandals, is being eliminated by Mayor David N. Dinkins in his proposed new budget, the auditor said yesterday.
The office claims to have spotted millions of dollars in mismanagement and underpayments to the city. But eliminating the watchdog agency is among the moves Dinkins is making in his first budget to head off a huge revenue gap.. The office was created as an early-warning system for financial irregularities, although some critics say it has not lived up to that goal.
Auditor General Karen Burstein, whose pending cases include a claim that Donald Trump's Grand Hyatt hotel cheated the city of at least $2.8 million in rent, told New York Newsday yesterday that the office's role and its 31 auditors, accountants and other employees will be spread throughout other agencies. The agency's...