{"id":87178,"date":"2020-10-12T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T21:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bronx-clerk-moonlights-as-consultant-for-firm-under-investigation\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T00:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T21:16:59","slug":"bronx-clerk-moonlights-as-consultant-for-firm-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bronx-clerk-moonlights-as-consultant-for-firm-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bronx clerk moonlights as consultant for firm under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bronx clerk moonlights as consultant for firm under investigation<\/strong>”
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\n The Bronx County clerk who was suspended amid a state criminal probe of a homeless services provider has been moonlighting as a paid consultant to the firm for years, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Luis Diaz, who makes $210,900 as the county clerk, worked as a paid consultant for Aguila Inc. for at least six years, his annual financial statements filed with the state Office of Court Administration reveal.<\/p>\n

Diaz, a former state assemblyman, was paid between $20,000 and $60,000 a year by Aguila from 2013 to 2019, records show.<\/p>\n

Given his hefty pay, Diaz\u2019s moonlighting is raising eyebrows in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me he\u2019s making plenty as a county clerk. I didn\u2019t know that a county clerk could have outside income,\u201d said one Bronx Democratic Party insider who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s making the same salary as a state Supreme Court justice!\u201d<\/p>\n

Diaz\u2019s wife, Anna Diaz, also is employed as a management analyst for the court system, the financial reports show. She makes between $100,000 and $250,000 a year.<\/p>\n

The financial connection provides a clue as to why investigators with state Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James\u2019 office raided Diaz\u2019s government office as part of its criminal probe of Agulia Inc. and executive director Jenny Rivera, among others.<\/p>\n

The investigation centers on alleged kickbacks, bribery and fraud, according to a search warrant of Rivera\u2019 s property, reviewed by The Post last week.<\/p>\n

The Office of Court Administration removed Diaz as the county clerk and is cooperating with the probe, a spokesman said. Diaz was suspended with pay.<\/p>\n

An insider familiar with the probe said the AG\u2019s office has also executed search warrants for other Agulia employees and at least one firm that did business with the company.<\/p>\n

Agulia has been awarded $250 million in contracts with the city Department of Homeless Services since 2012, according to records filed with the city comptroller\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Diaz\u2019s name also surfaced in a recent lawsuit filed against Aguila by Neighborhood Association for Inter-Cultural Affairs, which sought to take over or merge the two organizations. Rivera backed out of the deal, the suit claims.<\/p>\n

Diaz even provided a sworn affidavit in the case, acknowledging he was a consultant for Aguila.<\/p>\n

In court papers, Diaz said he would also \u201cbenefit from a consultant agreement\u201d with the new NAICA leadership.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile one of the top executives with NAICA, chief operating officer Richard Izquierdo, has a checkered past.\u00a0 The grandson of Bronx Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, Izquierdo pleaded guilty a decade ago to swindling $115,000 from SBCC Management Corp., a firm in the South Bronx that received federal grants to assist low-income tenants.<\/p>\n

Diaz is permitted to perform outside work because he is considered a \u201cnon-judicial employee\u201d within the court system, according to a spokesman with the Office of Court Administration.\u00a0By comparison, a judge is barred from receiving income from outside employment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a non-judicial employee he can . And he does not need prior app<\/a>roval,\u201d said OCA spokesman Lucian Chalfen.<\/p>\n

The county clerk processes lawsuits and other court filing and oversees communications with jurors.<\/p>\n

Diaz declined comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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