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MEMORANDUM
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FROM: GERARD F. HOEY, INSPECTOR GENERAL
DATE: MARCH 17, 2000
SUBJECT: ELIZABETH SANCEIEZ
This office recently completed a VENDEX review involving Elizabeth Sanchez, the Chief
Executive Officer of the East Harlem Council For Human Services ("EHCHS"). The review
disclosed that Ms. Sanchez falsified a series of VENDEX Individual Questionnaires that were
submitted to several City agencies by failing to report her January 27. 1998 felony arrest for
Impersonating an Internal Revenue Officer and her subsequent October 8, 1998 Federal
misdemeanor conviction for Theft/Embezzlement of Government Funds.
During her appearance before the Department of Investigation on March 15, 2000, Ms.
Sanchez was shown copies of the VENDEX Individual Questionnaires that she had submitted to
three City agencies in connection with contracts previously awarded to EHCHS: the Administration
For Children's Services ("ACS"). both its Head Start and Day Care Program; the Department For
The Aging ("DFTA'); and the Human Resources Administration ("HRA"). Ms. Sanchez Cully
cooperated and agreed to answer questions relative to her VENDEX responses.
A review of the VENDEX documents submitted to both the ACS/Head Start Program and
the ACS/Day Care Program, which were dated June 11, 1998. and September 9, 1998, respectively,
revealed that Ms. Sanchez failed to disclose accurate answers to Question Number 7. According
to the VENDEX Questionnaire, Question Number 7 asks whether there are any charges pending,
felony or misdemeanor, currently pending: or if in the past five years, whether the individual
completing the questions was the subject of a criminal investigation. Ms. Sanchez reported negative
responses to all these questions. If the ACS documents had been completed accurately, on the
two
dates indicated, Ms. Sanchez should have disclosed that she was the subject of a pending felony
charge in the United States Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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