The city’s Department of Buildings could use some more inspectors — to watch over employees of the Department of Buildings.
A veteran cashier for the agency managed to steal $68,000 over four years without detection because of woeful record-keeping and oversight, investigators said Tuesday.
Head Manhattan cashier Charise Brody, 44, was charged with grand larceny after she allegedly pocketed cash payments from customers that were intended to clear hazardous violations, schedule elevator inspections, or deal with other building issues.
Brody kept the alleged scheme hidden from her bosses since at least 2008 by fraudulently marking more than 100 expected payments as “cancelled.”
“This investigation exposed a number of vulnerabilities that [the Department of Investigations] has worked with the Buildings Department to remedy,” said DOI Commissioner Mark Peters.
His agency recommended that the Buildings Department implement an online payment system and improve oversight of cash counting and cancellation of transactions.
A woman who answered a cellphone registered to Brody hung up on a Post reporter.
Brody resigned from the agency in 2012 — after 20 years of service — with a salary of about $51,500.