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Mayor Retains Controversial Rikers Commissary Contractor, Defying Comptroller’s Objection

Mayor Eric Adams visits Rikers Island to meet with staff and detainees on Thanksgiving 2022.

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has awarded a no-bid $33 million contract to a Rikers Island food concessionaire that has charged incarcerated people and their families prices twice as high as those at local stores.  In doing so, the administration overrode the contract’s rejection by Comptroller Brad Lander, the city’s top fiscal watchdog, who cited a […]

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