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2008  
11-25-08 Weitzman finds many water districts squirrel away so much many they could operate for years without new revenue
11-17-08 Weitzman: 'Bus shelter vendor has potentially shortchanged County $300,000'
11-03-08 School Districts voice support for Weitzman & Suozzi's attempt to recoup State health insurance excessive payments
10-31-08 Nassau County Comptroller's Office Offers Summer Internships for College Students
10-30-08 Employees shortchanged $138,000
10-23-08 Comptroller Weitzman helps prepare County's social services agencies for new oversight requirement in 2009
10-16-08 County Executive Suozzi and Comptroller Weitzman: 'Let's reduce health insurance premiums'
10-15-08 Weitzman on 2009 budget: 'More spending cuts are necessary due to national economic crisis'
10-14-08 Weitzman looks to save County money by increasing number of employees participating in health insurance "buy backs"
10-10-08 Comptroller's audit of Social Services discovers employees were paid for their commute to work; overtime abuses exposed
09-18-08

Weitzman’s audit of Parks finds inconsistent fees & control of cash receipts deficient

09-04-08 Comptroller Weitzman: 'Agency for troubled youth overcharged Nassau County $834,000'
08-27-08 Weitzman moves to revoke lifetime health benefits following State's ruling that attorney was NOT entitled to pension
08-13-08 Weitzman testifies before Budget Review Committee
08-11-08 Weitzman & Suozzi look to snag vendors who cheat County out of sales tax
08-04-08 Weitzman: ‘Storm clouds gathering; Administration & Legislature must act now against economic downturn.’
07-29-08 Comptroller Weitzman releases ‘plain language’ Financial Report Gives taxpayers a snap shot of County’s finances
07-09-08 Weitzman Proposes Cost-Saving Changes In Requirements For County Lifetime Retiree Health Benefits
07-01-08 Comptroller Weitzman Issues Annual Report, Confirms $23.8 Million Budget Surplus
06-25-08

Weitzman applauds State pension reforms aimed at stopping consultants from receiving employee benefits

06-24-08 Weitzman testifies before Gov’t Services Committee in support of proposal to appoint County assessor
06-20-08 Weitzman Public Service Announcement Highlights Benefits of the NassauRx Drug Discount Card
06-16-08 Weitzman announces County’s independent report on consolidation of garbage districts confirms taxpayers would save millions if Albany lawmakers approve Gov’s “special district” proposals
06-12-08 Weitzman to Youth Leagues: ‘Look for red flags on the financial field’
06-11-08 Comptroller Weitzman’s Audit Advisory Committee Issues 2007 Report
06-02-08 Weitzman Says County's First "Paperless Audit" Shows Purchasing Department has Improved Its Time Keeping Practices
05-22-08 Weitzman Testifies Before State Attorney General On Special District Payroll Abuses
05-15-08 Weitzman: ‘Recent Report Highlights Enormous Inequity In School Funding For Nassau County VS Rest Of State.’
05-15-08

Legislature Approves Weitzman’s Proposal to Change Law That Can Cause Hardship to Surviving Family Members of Former County Employees

05-13-08 Weitzman Named Man of the Year by Nassau Community College Adjunct Faculty Association
05-12-08 Weitzman Announces County’s First “Paperless Audit”
05-12-08 Weitzman Releases 2008 Budget Projections; Stresses that Support from Albany is Needed
05-08-08 Weitzman Gratified By Dinapoli’s Removal Of Professionals & Rescinding Of Credits From State Pension System
04-30-08 Weitzman & State Commission Issue Recommendations To Control Property Taxes By Streamlining Government
04-22-08

Weitzman: ‘$9 MILLION SAVED BY NASSAU-RX DRUG DISCOUNT CARD USERS.’

04-17-08 Weitzman Calls On State Comptroller To Share State Data Base So County Can Search For Improper Pensions
04-17-08 Weitzman to present local students with Comptroller Achievement Awards
04-11-08 Weitzman asks State Comptroller to refund $102,246 inappropriately charged to Nassau County for pension credit for local attorney
04-04-08 Weitzman Reaches Out To Coalition Of State Unions & NY Public Interest Research Group To Discuss A State-Wide Drug Discount Card
04-03-08 Weitzman Calls On Attorney General & Nassau DA To Probe Baffling Status Change For County Consultant
04-02-08 Weitzman Urges Legislators To Support Change In Law That Can Cause Hardship To Surviving Family Members Of Former County Employees
03-20-08 Weitzman Tells Taxpayers How To Receive Free Tax Help
03-17-08 Weitzman: ‘Now You Can Print Your Own Nassau-Rx Drug Discount Card.’
03-12-08

Weitzman To Conduct Sweeping Review of Consultants On Special District Payrolls

03-03-08 Weitzman stands with Senator Schumer & Suffolk County Exec Levy in calling for increase in reimbursements for incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens
02-28-08 Weitzman: ‘Nassau County Closing 2007 With $23.8 Million Surplus, Despite Disappointing Sales Tax Receipts.’
02-20-08 Weitzman: ‘Recent collapse of auction rate securities market a very serious matter for Nassau County.'
02-11-08 Weitzman Presents Report to Legislature on Living Wage Law Compliance
02-08-08 Comptroller Weitzman Stands with Governor, County Exec & Civic Groups to Rally for Reforms of Special Districts
02-05-08 Weitzman Speaks Before L.I. Regional Planning Council On Gov.’S Proposed Reforms Of Special Taxing Districts
01-28-08 Comptroller Weitzman on Cablevision’s ‘Meet the Leaders’
01-24-08 Weitzman's Office Unearths Workers Compensation Checks Cashed by Deceased
01-23-08 Weitzman: Gov.’s Proposed Reforms of Special Taxing Districts Will Reduce Costs, Increase Oversight & End Abuses
01-18-08

Weitzman Finds County Human Rights Commission Has Failed To Properly Record Employees’ Time Records Since 2004

01-14-08 Weitzman Appoints New Member To Audit Advisory Committee
01-09-08

Weitzman Seeks State Approval To Reinstate Sales Tax Audits

01-08-08 Nassau County Comptroller’s Office Offers Summer Internships for College Students
01-08-08 Comptroller Weitzman & Staff Cited For Excellence In Financial Reporting
01-03-08 Maintaining Momentum in 2008
2007  
12-24-07 Weitzman: ‘Your Nassau-Rx Discount Card Is Waiting For You’
12-18-07 Weitzman Study Shows Many Special Districts Overcharge Residents
12-06-07 Weitzman Audit Finds Room For Improvement Of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s Fiscal Oversight And Controls
11-26-07 Weitzman’s Living Wage Advisory Board To Hold First Meeting On November 30
11-14-07 Comptroller Weitzman Names Carole Trottere New Communications Director
11-08-07 Weitzman Reviews County Office Of Housing And Intergovernmental Affairs’ Time And Leave Records
10-25-07 Weitzman: Nassau-Rx Card Has Saved Residents $8 Million To Date; Program Extended For Two Years
10-18-07 Weitzman Calls For Town Supervisors To ‘Step-Up’ Review Of Special Districts Budgets
10-15-07 Comptroller Weitzman: 2008 Budget Will Require Unprecedented Level Of Cooperation
10-03-07 Comptroller Weitzman: Westbury Water District Spending Money Like Water
09-21-07 Weitzman: Nassau County Will Save $335K In 2007 By Eliminating Duplicate Health Benefits
09-18-07 Weitzman Audit: Finds Water Commissioners In Two Districts Were Paid Thousands With Proper Justification
09-06-07 Weitzman Audit: Improvements Needed In Workers' Compensation Program
09-06-07 Weitzman Appoints Vivianne Hernandez To Comptroller's Audit Advisory Committee
08-21-07

Comptroller Weitzman Promotes Kathy Kugler To County Director Of Accounting

08-06-07 Weitzman: Nassau Will Finish 2007 On Budget
07-19-07 Comptroller Weitzman: Skyrocketing Cost Of Health Benefits For County Workers & Retirees Overwhelming Taxpayers
07-12-07 Comptroller Weitzman Issues Annual Report, Confirms $45.4 Million Budget Surplus
07-10-07 Weitzman Review Shows County Planning Department Improved Following 2004 Audit
07-03-07 Comptroller Weitzman Names Jostyn Hernandez New Assistant Communications Director
07-02-07 Comptroller Weitzman Statement on PBA Arbitration Award
06-22-07 Comptroller Weitzman Names Rhonda Maco Legislative Liaison
06-12-07 Comptroller Weitzman Tightens Controls Over Contract Social Service Agencies
05-10-07 Comptroller Weitzman’s Audit Advisory Committee Finds Nassau Making Progress On Financial Controls
05-01-07 Comptroller Weitzman, Senator Schumer Recover $438,000 In I.R.S. Refunds For County And Employees
04-23-07 Comptroller Weitzman, State Sen. Johnson Tapped For Local Government Commission
04-17-07 Weitzman Moves To Compel Clerk To Use County Financial System
03-20-07 Weitzman Audit Finds Absence Of Financial Controls In Nassau County Clerk's Office
03-13-07 Weitzman Commends Suozzi On Decision To Focus Attention On Special Districts
03-01-07 Weitzman Reports Nassau County Closed 2006 With $45.4 Million Surplus
02-28-07 Weitzman Urges Changes To Proposed Agreement With Nassau Health Care Corporation
02-15-07 Weitzman Audit Finds Conflict Of Interest At Great Neck Wastewater District
02-07-07 Statement By Howard S. Weitzman Re: Selection of Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli as State Comptroller
01-29-07 Comptroller Weitzman Cited For Excellence In Financial Reporting
01-24-07 Comptroller Weitzman Interviewed In Albany For State Comptroller Position
01-18-07 Weitzman Commends Decision By Town Of Hempstead To Review Special District Budgets
01-15-07 Comptroller Weitzman, Legislator Toback Announce Release Of $2.8 Million In NYS-DOT Funds For Atlantic Beach Bridge
01-11-07 Following State Audit, Weitzman Calls on Hempstead Supervisor to Curb Spending by Sanitary District
   
2006  
12-27-06 Weitzman Appointed Chair of Statewide Committee on Tax Policy
12-13-06 Weitzman, Town Supervisors Agree: Nassau Special Tax Districts Can Cut Expenses
11-21-06 Schumer Calls On IRS To Refund Over $500,000 To Nassau County And Its Employees
11-09-06 Nassau County Comptroller’s Office Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2007 Internships
11-01-06 Comptroller Weitzman Issues Audit Of County Hospital's Non-Patient Revenues
10-24-06 Weitzman Audit: Nassau Probation Department Not Monitoring High-Risk Offenders Around The Clock
10-13-06 Comptroller Finds 2007 Nassau Budget Plan Carries Significant Risks
10-10-06 Weitzman: Nassau Homeowners Shortchanged On NYS “Star” Tax Rebates
09-29-06 In Its First Two Years, Comptroller Weitzman's NassauRx Card Has Saved Residents $6 Million
09-26-06 Comptroller Weitzman Supports Suozzi Initiative To Save Cradle Of Aviation
09-26-06 Comptroller Weitzman Calls For Adjustments To New York's School Aid Formula
09-20-06 Weitzman Audit Leads to Indictments in Five Towns Community Center Probe
09-18-06 Comptroller Weitzman Urges Towns To Publicly Review Budgets Of Special Taxing Districts
09-15-06 Statement By Comptroller Howard S. Weitzman Re: Nassau County 2007 Budget
09-14-06 Weitzman Audit: Levittown Community Center Had No Records Showing Day-Care Workers Were Approved By State
09-13-06 County Legislature Approves Weitzman Bill To End Duplicate Health Benefits For Non-Union Workers
09-05-06 Weitzman: Cradle Of Aviation Museum Will Run Out Of Cash By November
08-24-06 Statement By Comptroller Weitzman In Response To: Matter Of County Of Westchester V. Board Of Trustees Of Suny
08-23-06 Comptroller Weitzman on Cablevision's 'Meet the Leaders'
08-10-06 Weitzman, Jacobs And Toback To Introduce Legislation Ending Duplicate Health Benefits For Nassau Workers
08-09-06 Weitzman Audit Finds Nassau Coliseum Manager Shortchanged County On Revenues
08-02-06 Comptroller Weitzman Warns of Growing Structural Deficit
07-24-06 Comptroller Weitzman To Suspend Monthly Cash Reviews Of Public Hospital
07-21-06 Weitzman Appoints New Deputy Comptroller For Audit And Special Projects
07-19-06 Weitzman Audit Finds Lax Management, Absence Of Internal Controls At Aviation Museum
07-10-06 Comptroller Weitzman Makes Understanding County Health Benefits As Easy As A-B-C
07-05-06 Comptroller Weitzman Confirms County’s Fourth Annual Budget Surplus Since 2002
06-21-06 Comptroller Weitzman: Hospital Corporation Still Teetering on the Brink
06-05-06 Weitzman Report: County Could Save Over $3 Million/Yr By Ending Duplicate Benefits For Married Workers
05-26-06 Nassau County Leaders, Policy Experts To Discuss Special Tax Districts At Hofstra
05-18-06 Comptroller: Monthly Audit Shows Public Hospital's Cash Problems Continue
05-01-06 Taking Aim At High Property Taxes, Local Officials Plan June Conference On Special Districts
04-26-06 Independent Audit Committee Finds Nassau Improved Financial Controls in 2005
04-24-06 Comptroller To Audit Cradle Of Aviation Museum
04-20-06 Comptroller Reports Nassau Public Hospital Is "Effectively Out Of Cash"
04-05-06 Audit Faults Nassau Community College For Excessive Comp Time, Lax Personnel Practices
03-31-06 Comptroller Weitzman to KEYSPAN: Drop $100 Million Claim Against Nassau Before Any Sale To National Grid
03-30-06 County’s Backlog Of Property Tax Refunds Reduced To $131 Million
03-16-06 Statement by Comptroller Weitzman Re: Preferred Developer For Nassau Centre
03-07-06 Comptroller Weitzman Calls Allocation of Tobacco Money For Hospital Bailout "Premature"
02-23-06 Weitzman Reports Nassau County Closed 2005 With $78.3 Million Surplus
02-16-06 Weitzman: County Police Ambulance Bureau in Need of Major Upgrade
02-06-06 Comptroller Weitzman Appoints Chief Deputy Comptroller
01-24-06 Comptroller Reports Health Care Corporation's Cash Reserves At Critically Low Level
01-11-06 Police Audit Finds High Levels Of Overtime, Many Officers Still Performing Clerical Tasks
01-01-06 Inaugural Address By Howard S. Weitzman, Nassau County Comptroller
   
2005  
12-21-05 Once Again, Nassau Cited For Excellence In Financial Reporting
12-19-05 Taking Aim At High Property Taxes, Comptroller Expands Audits Of Special Tax Districts; Calls For Countywide Conference To Recommend Reforms
10-28-05 Court Rules Comptroller Has "Right and Duty" To Audit County Clerk
10-26-05 Comptroller Discovers Medicare Payments Owed to County
10-20-05 Following Weitzman Audits, NYS Comptroller To Investigate Nassau Sanitation Districts
10-17-05 Comptroller's Comments on the Proposed 2006 Budget
10-12-05 Audit Finds Full-Time Salaries for Part-Time Work
09-30-05 Weitzman Blasts LIRR Decision To Reduce Car Cleaning Budget
09-21-05 Customers of Sanitary District No. 2 Grossly Overpaying for Garbage Collection
09-08-05 Sanitary District Audits Finds Inflated Pay and Lavish Expenses
08-23-05 Free Prescription Card Saves Residents Over $3 Million
08-03-05 Comptroller Expects Nassau County To Close 2005 With A Surplus Of At Least $48 Million
07-12-05 Nassau Annual Report Confirms Second Annual Budget Surplus
06-23-05 Weitzman Audit Finds County's Info Tech Department Failed to Follow Procurement Rules
06-09-05 Comptroller Weitzman Finds 35% Of Nassau Retailers Charge Incorrect Sales Tax
06-02-05 Comptroller's Audit To Result In Tighter Controls Over County Checks
05-25-05 Comptroller Subpoenas Records Of Syosset Sanitary District
05-03-05 Comptroller Discovers Misplaced Revenues At Drug & Alcohol Agency
03-24-05 Audit Shows Abuse Of Disability Pay At Jail
03-17-05 Vocational Education Agency Halts Board Stipends Following Comptroller's Audit
03-09-05 Audit Shows Early Intervention Program is "Doing More With Less"
02-24-05 Comptroller To Audit Special Tax Districts
02-17-05 Nassau County Solidly In The Black
02-11-05 Summer Internships for College Students
02-03-05 Citizens Audit Committee 2004 Annual Report
01-26-05 Weitzman Advises NYC Council On Prescription Discount Card
01-06-05 Weitzman Statement on NYS Audit of Roslyn
   
2004  
12-21-04 Comptroller Recovers $2 Million Owed by Town of Oyster Bay
12-16-04 Comptroller's Audit Finds Administrative Breakdown In Nassau County Jail
12-08-04 NassauRx Passes Million-Dollar Savings Mark
11-23-04 Nassau Spends More On Personal Care Than Comparable Counties
11-08-04 Concerns About Controls At Assessment Review Commission
10-21-04 Weitzman: Buying Pools For Prescription Drugs Urged By NYPIRG Are 'Already Here'
10-18-04 Comptroller Endorses 2005 Nassau Budget Plan
10-13-04 Audit Report of the Fire Inspection Agency
09-23-04 Prescription Discount Card Catching On Nationally
09-13-04 Comptroller Weitzman On Nassau 2005 Budget "We're Not Out Of The Woods Yet"
09-08-04 Comptroller Weitzman Issues Statement RE: 5-Point Plan to Stabilize NHCC
08-17-04 Comptroller's Audit Advisory Committee Makes Strides In First Year
08-09-04 Unauthorized Salary Increases At NHCC
08-04-04 Comptroller Forecasts County Will Finish Strong In 2004
07-30-04 Nassau Prescription Discount Program "Taking Off" In First Three Weeks
07-14-04 Hevesi & Weitzman Announce Increased Oversight of Schools
07-13-04 New System Consolidates Electric Payments
07-07-04 Comptroller Releases Nassau County Annual Report
07-02-04 Comptroller Review of Park Permits Finds Flaws in County Procedures
06-29-04 Nassau County Launches Largest Prescription Drug Discount Program
06-25-04 Comptroller To Post Agencies' Corrective Action Plans
06-22-04 Nassau Jail Commissary Continues to Operate At a Loss
06-07-04 Free "NassauRx" Prescription Drug Discount Cards to Nassau Residents
06-01-04 Statement by Nassau Comptroller Re: Management Changes at Nassau Health Care Corp.
05-28-04 County Taxes For Police Services Could Be Fairer
05-27-04 Comptroller Issues Preliminary Esitmate of County Liability for Real Estate Tax Refunds
05-19-04 Audit Reveals Nassau Social Services Anti-Fraud Unit is Short-Staffed
03-23-04 Nassau Cited for Excellence in Financial Reporting
03-04-04 Summer Internship Opportunities
02-23-04 Nassau County Firmly In The Black
01-29-04 Hospital Corporation Needs To Scale Back
01-21-04 Audit of the Economic Development Vertical
01-12-04 Audit of Police Communications Bureau
   
2003  
12-22-03 Nassau Lax In Enforcing "Finger-Imaging" Law
12-18-03 NHCC Misses Pension Payment to State
11-26-03 Statement Re: Office Of Housing And Intergovernmental Affairs
11-19-03 Plan To Make Prescription Drugs Cheaper
11-17-03 Health Insurance Audit Recovers Overpayments
10-31-03 Weitzman Solicits Proposals For Discount Drug Card
10-15-03 Comptroller Comments on 2004 Budget
10-09-03 Audit of DSS Medical Transportation
10-07-03 Audit Advisory Committee Holds Inaugural Meeting
10-02-03 Comptroller's Review of the PBA Union Contract
09-16-03 Comptroller To Increase Fiscal Monitoring Of Medical Center
09-02-03 Comptroller Critiques "Compromise" Plan For Sewer Authority
08-05-03 Comptroller Proposes Pharmacy Discount Program
07-31-03 Comptroller Releases 2003 Mid Year Financial Forecast
07-07-03 Comptroller Releases 2002 Annual Report
06-11-03 Parks, Recreation and Museums Audit Report
05-19-03 Comptroller Establishes Audit Advisory Committee
05-14-03 Reassessment Project Audit Report
05-12-03 Comments On The Update to the FY 03-06 Financial Plan
05-01-03 Statement by Weitzman Re: County Multi-Year Plan
04-30-03 Weitzman to Present at Public Finance Conference
04-25-03 Mosquera Joins Comptroller's Staff As Newest Deputy
04-24-03 Auditors To Remove "Going Concern" Qualification From Financial Statement
04-17-03 Comptroller Names New Communications Director
04-14-03 Audit Shows Medicaid Unit Struggling to Rebuild
02-24-03 Nassau County Shows $40 Million Surplus for 2002
01-27-03 Comptroller Receives GFOA Award
01-23-03 Traffic Violations Agency Audit Report
01-07-03 Initiatives to Curb Nassau's Mounting Health Insurance Costs
01-02-03 County, Hospital Operator Reach Accord
   
2002  
12-30-02 Weitzman Appears on 'Meet The Leaders'
10-17-02 Police Dept. Audit
10-08-02 Comptroller's Office Uncovers $9 Million
10-07-02 Comptroller Comments on Proposed 2003 Budget
09-04-02 Computer Systems Unprepared for Disasters
08-20-02 Former Senior-Level Nassau County Employees Granted Unemployment Insurance Benefits
08-13-02 Comptroller's Office Cited for Communications Excellence
08-08-02 Comptroller Analyzes Nassau's Competitive Position
07-31-02 Comptroller Warns of Rists To County's Financial Future
07-08-02 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
06-26-02 LIRR Commuter Survey
06-03-02 Financial Report
04-30-02 Report on Costs for Inmate Care Provided by NUMC
04-16-02 Internship Opportunities
04-12-02 Comptroller Comments on County Executive's Four-Year Financial Plan
04-11-02 Deputy Comptroller Named
04-01-02 Comptroller To Examine Suozzi's Financial Plan
02-20-02 County Ends 2001 with $19M Surplus
02-07-02 Health Care Costs Strain County Budget
02-04-02 A Conversation with The Comptroller
01-28-02 County Comptroller Names Top Aides
01-02-02 Weitzman Vows to be Strong Fiscal Watchdog