Hot Line for State Pension Fund Audit

In July the NYS Department of Financial Serives (DFS) announced an audit of the seven public pension funds in New York State.

Here's a news article dated yesterday announcing that the DFS has set up a hot line for whistle blowers to report wrong doing at any of the public pension funds in New York State. You can also check the DFS web site for the phone number .

I guess the the DFS auditors have found a need to go around the the management structures at the state and city pension funds to get a more unfiltered view of events at the pension funds.

Or maybe they read my posting about investment consultants.

State Insurance Audit Checklist

Since July 29. 2013 the State Insurance Department (NYS DFS) has accessed my blog 29 times. So I thought I would provide them with a suggested reading list. Below is a starting list. If I see something else that looks interesting, I'll add to the list.

• Who got the $140M?
• Why was the Transit Operating Force death benefit changed?
• The former chair of the NYCERS Board of Trustees
• Why is NYCERS paying the Comptroller?
• The civil service qualifications for the current NYCERS executive director
• Unaccounted investment fees , background , and more
• Investment madness
• Lack of disclosure on private equity and real estate transactions
• Hedge funds
• Private equity managers
• Delays in processing loans
• Examples of SPD errors ( A , B )
• NYCERS perjury
• D.O.I. and the perjury charge
• Funny wrinkle to the perjury and corruption story
• The WC offset nightmare
• Denial of due process
• The assumed interest rate
• Finally 7%, sort of
• Delays in pension benefit revisions
• The Met-Life building
• Disaster recovery site at L.I.C.
• Allegra Capital and lack of accounting oversight
• Harassment of EMS disabled retirees, and more
• Outside legal services
• Background on past State Insurance Department reports