Brooklyn Public Administrator cited for job performance failure
Liu unhappy with KCPA
New York City Comptroller John Liu’s office conducted an audit of the Kings County Public Administrator (KCPA) and found that the KCPA mishandled many of the estates under its supervision as well as uncovering more than $2.6 million in stolen funds.
The KCPA, which is given most of its powers through Article 11 of the New York State Surrogate’s Court Procedures Act, is responsible for administering the estates of individuals in Brooklyn who die intestate, or without a will. The KCPA also handles estates when there is no individual qualified or willing to administer the estate.
As the administrator of an estate, the KCPA is generally responsible for locating the deceased’s assets and distributing them to the appropriate heirs, as well as liquidating any remaining assets to pay the deceased’s outstanding debts and taxes. In sum, the KCPA’s goal is to protect the deceased’s property from going to waste and to ensure that inheritances and debts and satisfied. Liu’s office says these tasks were poorly and inefficiently executed.