WHITE PLAINS – City Carting of Westchester, Inc. and its manager pled guilty to submitting false financial records that concealed tens of thousands of dollars in company money spent at strip clubs.
“This brazen misuse of taxpayer dollars is an abuse of public trust by a government contractor, and my office will continue to investigate and prosecute cases of public corruption and seek accountability for this kind of criminal conduct,” said Westchester District Attorney Miriam Rocah.
As part of City Carting’s annual $20 million contract with Westchester County to manage and process waste and recyclables, the corporation was required to file their financial records with Kroll Associates. Kroll was appointed as an independent monitor to ensure City Carting was operating in compliance with all criminal and civil laws and without influence from members or associates of organized crime.
The records, received by Kroll and the Solid Waste Commission, a county regulatory agency, were the subject of the commission’s referral to the Westchester DA’s office.
City Carting’s manager, Christopher Oxer, 37, of Darien, Connecticut, pled guilty to offering a false instrument for filing and the company pled guilty to attempted offering a false instrument for filing.
Oxer will be sentenced in August to six months in jail that will run concurrently with a one-year federal prison sentence for tax fraud charges related to his conduct, and the corporation will be required to pay a $5,000 fine in addition to separate fines levies against it by the county, which terminated the contract.
