Yonkers three-term Mayor Mike Spano has so many family members on the city payroll that the locality could be renamed Spano Inc., critics charge.
has so many family members on the city payroll that the locality could be renamed Spano Inc., critics charge.Lohud.com reportedMike Spano, a Republican-turned Democrat, is running for a fourth term after the Yonkers Council suspended term limits for a second time.
“This is not normal. This is a clear conflict of interest,” said Yonkers Councilwoman Corazon Pineda Isaac, a Democrat who is challenging Spano in the Democratic primary.Ron Matten, a Republican who ran for council in 2021, blamed the suspension of term limits for expanding the Spanos’ influence in city government.
Spano’s sister-in-law Jaime McGill Spano is executive director of the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency.Another Spano brother, former state Sen. Nick Spano, has a lobbying firm, Empire Strategies, whose clients have business before the IDA, including receiving tax abatements, according to the report.Seven Spano nieces and nephews were hired in civil service jobs since he took office in 2012.
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