Buffalo Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams concluded in a report issued Friday that the city does not have a widespread problem involving suspended city workers being paid to not work.
The Comptroller’s Office began investigating this issue after Investigative Post revealed on Sept. 14 that a suspended Buffalo Fire Department employee had been paid nearly $600,000 over 7 1/2 years without a hearing being held to resolve the disciplinary charges against her.
The Buffalo Common Council and the public will have to wait at least another week for the long-awaited findings of an investigation by the city comptroller of city employees on paid administrative leave.
The worker, Jill Repman, had been suspended in 2016 after the Comptroller’s Office discovered she reportedly tampered with the Fire Department’s payroll in order to pad her own paychecks.
That prompted Common Council members to call for the comptroller’s staff to audit why Repman had been paid not to work for so long and whether the city was paying other workers for long periods of time while they were on suspension.
The comptroller’s investigation found that as of July 6, fewer than 12 city employees were on paid leave from their jobs for an extended period. Four of those 12 returned to work,…
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