Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Feb. 19, that an NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) supervisor has been charged with grand larceny, falsifying business records, and other charges for allegedly filing time sheets amounting to over $21,000 in pay for hours he was at his Bronx home instead of working.

 

“This defendant allegedly took long breaks at his home while he was supposed to be working and submitted false timesheets,” Clark said. “He made $21,800 in fraudulent pay. This crime diminishes the reputation of our honest, hardworking civil servants.”

 

For her part, NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber said, “City employees who falsify their timesheets and claim to be working, when in fact they are taking unauthorized breaks, commit fraud against the City and its taxpayers, as alleged in this indictment.”

 

She added, “This charged conduct diminishes precious City funds and falls far below the standard expected of City employees. I thank the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office for its partnership in protecting City dollars and the City Department of Sanitation for reporting this matter to DOI.”

 

Clark said the defendant, Steven Taylor, 50, of The Bronx, was arraigned on Tuesday, Feb. 18, by Supreme Court Justice George Villegas on a 36-count indictment.

 

It includes third-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree grand larceny, petit larceny, second-degree falsifying business records, first-degree falsifying of business records, second-degree offering a false instrument for filing,  first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, official misconduct, defrauding the government and making a punishable false written statement. He is due back in court in June.

 

According to the investigation, Taylor, a supervisor at NYC Department of Sanitation between Feb. 1, 2021 and Jan. 31, 2022, claimed to be working, but allegedly drove his city-issued car home and took hours-long breaks. He allegedly filed seven summonses for administrative code violations and parking violations even though he was not physically present at those locations to witness them as required by department policy.

 

The Bronx DA’s office said the case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Michael Naughton and Supervising Assistant District Attorney Cassie Perez of the Public Integrity Bureau, under the supervision of Sarah Clements, deputy chief of the Public Integrity Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Denise Kodjo, deputy chief of the Investigations Division and Wanda Perez-Maldonado, chief of the Investigations Division.

 

Clark thanked former Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Collado for his work on the case and Trial Preparation Assistant Margaret Williford of the Public Integrity Bureau for her assistance in the case.

           

She also thanked DOI, DSNY, and NYPD Detective Daniel Angen of the Bronx District Attorney Squad for their assistance with the case.

 

The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.