Inventory controls were so lax at the Housing Authority that employees checked out materials while signing in as a team of crime-fighting comic-book superheroes, according to an audit released Friday.
Employees repeatedly used the pseudonym “X-Men” to sign out thousands of dollars worth of items from the warehouses.
That was among the problems found by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s auditors, who also found $84,000 worth of items missing from a Bronx warehouse and 11 entire pallets worth $85,293 that vanished from storage in Brooklyn, including sinks, a $1,000 intercom system and bathroom medicine cabinets.
“We definitely want to find out who ‘X-Men’ is,” Stringer said.