Former OFT deputy resigns as Baltimore’s IT chief



  1. oneoldtimer says:

    Looks like Ms Rawlings-Blake is a no nonsense leader, perhaps New York pols. should learn something from her.

  2. ..if only….so preventable….:)

  3. yew norker says:

    when are the arrests coming? have there been any indictments yet?

  4. If the Mayor of baltimore was paying attention, she wouldnt have hired this faker.

    Been BSing his resume for a long time.

    There is a God.

  5. woo says:

    Kudos to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake!

    Our gutless execution branch chain-of-command knew what was going on but did nothing.

  6. The contract was cancelled after the first year, costing the state at least $1.5 million.

    Yup…. and it’s the front line state workers who are the cause of all the financial woes of NYS…. rrriiiighhhhttttt!!!!
    These folks came up through the civil service system? What? No? Appointed? Really? I’m shocked.
    @ yew horker–I’m sure the indictments will be handed down any moment now and the arrests will follow immediately. rrriiiggghhhttt.

  7. Just a thought.... says:

    HAAAAAAAAA!!! Now, if the next stop for this fool is jail then that’s just what he deserves!!

  8. newyorkstatetaxpayer says:

    Maybe now investigators in the AG, Comptroller or Governors’s Office will investigate other former OFT big shots now working in IT vendor and IT contractor entities that do millions of dollars worth of business with OFT and other NYS Agency IT shops.

    These IT vendor and IT contractor entities cost the NYS taxpayers more money than one could ever imagine. :O

  9. Uncle Joe says:

    has albany DA soares started building a criminal case against the nys legislators that lied on their per diem vouchers??? will it get pushed under the rug?? chl 6 reporter greg floyd gave soares all the documentation.

  10. JG says:

    Probably arrests soon. Guilty pleas will take a while.

  11. Gerald Plante says:

    Yay! Someone other than a NY’r sees this for what it is: thievery! Yes, when are there indictments. Noone in the private sector gets away w/what goes on in NYState gov’t…enough is enough…fiscal sanity rules! And always should.

  12. choirgirl says:

    oft was and is a boondoggle from its creation by pataki. the whole operation is corrupt (from a zillion appointees) you wanna re-organize st andrew? put them in the blender.

  13. Albanypawn says:

    The sun shines again and the birds sing. Finally these two egotistical dictator thieves (Mayberry & Simpleton)will finally get to face the music.

    Also just think that the current OGS comissioner, when in the legislature, voted to turn over all of the states technology contracts to these “reality star” Soprano’s.

    I hope jail time is involved. Maybe the news will post their pictures on the perp patrol.

  14. NYWOODY says:

    Now that Rico has resigned (AKA FIRED!) from the city of Baltimore, I wonder if he still has a hold on his item at OFT?

  15. Erin L says:

    The company’s name I was referring to earlier is Nfrastructure.

  16. Ben Dover says:

    >>>If the Mayor of baltimore was paying attention, she wouldnt have hired this faker.

    >>Been BSing his resume for a long time.

    Both he and Melodie have been BSing their resumes and credentials for a long time. Seems not to matter in NYS government.
    While Baltimore was not paying attention to the hiring of the faker I will credit the mayor for taking swift, appropriate action. Maybe NYS can learn from Baltimore? ….. Nah. I just pinched myself.

  17. Darrell says:

    Erin L – When did you refer to Nfrastructure? What role do they play in this?

  18. tom says:

    nFrastructure is an IT consulting firm, based in Latham.
    They have several ex-OFT, and ex-CMA brass in their ranks.
    You’ve got Dave Runyon and Jack Benson who were muckymucks under MMS while she was there. Also Jim Pascarell from CMA.
    Ms. Mayberry Stewart is the CEO of TRI Group Holdings, which has a sub-company dedicated to IT consulting.

  19. SmokinJoe says:

    Let the hard working state employees go back to working for OGS and the agencies that actually provide real state services and shut OFT down.

    Choirgirl is 100% correct in calling it a boondoggle! It’s totally loaded up at the top with nothing but clowns who have their own agendas and has proven to be an complete failure. It’s broken beyond repair.

  20. Erin L says:

    Darrell, They have not published the comment yet for reasons I am not sure of. The jist of it was that taxpayers are paying around $2k per MONTH per LAPTOP at a cost of ~24,000 a year per laptop to lease Lenovo laptops from Nfrastructure. It’s a sweetheart deal that allowed the company to go from a few employees to a huge corporation, at the expense of the taxpayers. I will attempt to repost the comment in full when I get back to work.

  21. Erin L says:

    Also, these are laptops for the use of state workers in many departments, not just OFT, but the deal was brokered by OFT, from my understanding. Outrageous much?

  22. JoeSchmoe says:

    Hey JCOPE.. Take a lesson from Baltimore and do you job. Its time to press charges and recoup some money

  23. ..a double-header Mayberry just “resigned”!!!!!!!…..lets keep up the pace…there’s plenty more where “they” came from…..I foresee a slap on the wrist punishment for both as that iz the way NYS rollz for the “upper echelon”……….

  24. Fed Up (The Real One) says:

    My agency pays like $12,000 A MONTH for OFT “hosting services”. What the blank….? Ripoff? I’ll say!

  25. Dr Dolittle says:

    There has never been any kind of arrangement where OFT leased laptops from anyone. That just isn’t factual.

  26. Erin L says:

    Dr. Doolittle; I have heard differently from two people who work for the state; one in highway and one in IT. Neither know each other and both confirmed it.

  27. Cassini says:

    Fed up. Hard to say if that’s a ripoff based on the facts you provided. For some agencies $12,000 a month isn’t bad considering volume, State and Federally mandated security measures, DR, more State and Federal mandates regarding backup and storage etc etc.

  28. Dr Dolittle says:

    I’ve been involved in state IT for a long time, and I can tell you for a fact that the vast majority of laptop purchases since the IBM spinoff have either gone to Dell or the winning aggregate buy vendor. Lenovo has had a niche presence in the state at best. You can FOIL the data from OGS if you’d like.

    Your friends are confused, probably either repeating some inane rumor (as the comments here demonstrate, there are many) or associating laptops with some other, larger project. Banks will only write a lease with “soft costs” up to about 25% of the asset’s value.

    Nfrastructure’s bread and butter business until a few years ago was rolling out PCs. They partner with the oem’s, and charge a little over $100 per device.

  29. lathamguy says:

    Tom (12:18PM),

    I have worked with both of the people you maligned in your post and you could not be farther from the truth. They were career NYS employees who worked much, much harder than most, often around the clock, who suffered under the yoke of morons like MMS and “Simpleton” (and some of their predecessors), and still managed to produce stellar results. Their personal and professional reputations and accomplishments are legend in the IT business, and I challenge you, and your ilk, to provide one shred of proof to the contrary.

  30. lathamguy says:

    Clarification: I was referring to Dave Runyon and Jack Benson.

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