SUNY Downstate wasted thousands on consulting company that oversaw LICH closure
On Aug. 8, the state Comptroller’s Office released a damning audit of fees paid to the consulting company that oversaw SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s closure of Long Island College Hospital (LICH).
The audit found that Downstate authorized a torrent of cash to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Pitts Management Associates, and criticized the financially troubled Brooklyn institution’s slipshod financial oversight.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in his report that during a six-month period studied in 2014, Downstate approved tens of thousands of dollars in unmonitored spending by Pitts for expensive hotel rooms, extravagant dinners, limo service and booze.