Stringer’s audit of Brooklyn Public Administrator’s Office slams ‘weak controls’
The recent audit of the Kings County Public Administrator’s Office by City Comptroller Scott Stringer is raising eyebrows in the legal community and is bound to affect the impending race for a new surrogate judge.
The agency, which manages estates belonging to people who die without a will or heirs, is fairly dysfunctional and sometimes loses track of real estate property, the audit charges.
The audit concluded that the office has “weak controls and insufficient procedures in place” for collecting and recording personal property belonging to the deceased, among other serious problems,” Bklyner reported.