That’s What We Were Waiting For In A Third Term!

Huge cost overruns and corrupting influences from Bloomberg gadgets:

While he made $250,000 a year from the city to devise the payroll system, CityTime, Salamone was running a full-fledged lobbying business.

During the past four years alone, he was paid another $1.4million by firms such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Keane Inc. and Intergraph to lobby the Bloomberg administration for additional computer contracts, city records show.

And since he is a retired city employee, Salamone, 69, also collected more than $50,000 annually in a city pension.

So how did he find all that extra moonlighting time?

A spokesman for the city’s Office of Payroll Administration, when notified of the consulting business, said Salamone never disclosed his other interests to agency chief Joel Bondy.

“While Mr. Salamone was not a city employee and did not recommend any purchases or consultant hires for [the] project, we will be reviewing the matter,” the spokesman said.

The CityTime project has ballooned from an initial price tag of $63 million in 1998 to nearly $700 million today and has fallen years behind schedule, with only about 45,000 city workers using it.