LL is hearing word that the city today is moving to end contracts with Advanced Integrated Technology Corp.—the outfit until recently headed by Sushil Bansal, charged last week in the tech corruption scandal—and two other companies alleged to be associated with the fraud. LL has no confirmation of the companies' identities, but Innovative IT Solutions [...]
As LL has said repeatedly, there is not evidence that former Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra was in any way directly involved in the graft that allegedly happened under his nose. But it did happen under his nose.
So here's a question: Where was the oversight?
Kundra gave assurances that he was directly involved in the approval [...]
LL's spent the last couple of hours poring though the affidavit filed by federal authorities in support of the arrests made today in connection with OCTO corruption.
Here's the headlines:
The whole scheme was laid bare thanks to the cooperation of an OCTO employee who was introduced into the scheme last March by Yusuf Acar. The employee [...]
LL's been eyeballing city purchase orders this afternoon, trying to suss out some more information about Sushil Bansal (pictured), arrested in connection to the OCTO corruption probe, and his company, Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. (AITC).
Long story short, they've done a lot of business with the city.
According to publicly downloadable city records—thanks, Vivek!—the city has authorized [...]
