Audit Shows Brooklyn Public Administrators Doing Poor Job

Based on an audit by Comptroller John Liu, the King’s CountyPublic Administrator’s Office has mishandled over $2.2 million in assets ofBrooklyn estates.  The audit showed thatassets in over half of the fifty estates that were examined had beenmishandled.  And that’s only 50 of 3,300estates the administrator’s office has been responsible for since June 2011.

Among the missteps, Liu claims the administrator’s officeleft $50,000 sitting in a safe deposit box for five years, failed to credit anestate after selling a home for $140,000, and misplaced a $1,000 fur coat.

Public Administrator Bruce Stein responded to Liu’s auditwith an itemized refutation of its findings.

See Yoav Gonen, Administrators Mishandled More Than $2.2Mfor Estates of People Who Died in Brooklyn, Audit Shows, New York Post,June 29, 2013.