The Bloomberg administration established the Office of Financial Empowerment in 2006 to help low-income New Yorkers make the most of their financial resources. Yet an organization the office is about to hire to operate one of five new Financial Empowerment Centers providing counseling to poor people has at least occasionally had trouble fulfilling financial obligations to some of its own employees.
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HELP USA CEO Larry Belinsky, married to the cousin of New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo and his sister Maria, resigned from their organization as the governor launches probe of nonprofit executive compensation. This story was first published in The New York World, and later picked up and credited by the Wall Street Journal.
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