{"id":200,"date":"2024-06-04T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=200"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:01:03","slug":"new-york-post-controversial-waste-management-company-awarded-nyc-contracts-despite-hundreds-of-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/06\/04\/new-york-post-controversial-waste-management-company-awarded-nyc-contracts-despite-hundreds-of-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Controversial waste management company awarded NYC contracts despite hundreds of violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/03\/us-news\/controversial-waste-management-company-awarded-nyc-contracts-despite-hundreds-of-violations\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Aneeta Bhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A controversial waste management company that has racked up hundreds of violations and is being investigated in at least one fatal car crash is still being allowed to operate in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Cogent Waste Solutions has been embroiled in multiple lawsuits since 2021 for alleged recklessness of its drivers, overcharging customers, falsifying records and failing to disclose required personnel details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be looking in the first instance why we are giving licenses \u2026 to folks who are engaging in this reckless behavior,\u201d Councilman Shaun Abreu said to officials from the city\u2019s Sanitation Department and NYC Business Integrity Commission on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/03\/us-news\/controversial-waste-management-company-awarded-nyc-contracts-despite-hundreds-of-violations\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Aneeta Bhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A controversial waste management company that has racked up hundreds of violations and is being investigated in at least one fatal car crash is still being allowed to operate in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Cogent Waste Solutions has been embroiled in multiple lawsuits since 2021 for alleged recklessness of its drivers, overcharging customers, falsifying records and failing to disclose required personnel details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/06\/04\/new-york-post-controversial-waste-management-company-awarded-nyc-contracts-despite-hundreds-of-violations\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}