Something rotten is definitely happening in Albany, though whether Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “reform” of the state’s $11 billion home-care program was corrupt, or simply disastrously bungled, remains to be seen.
The feds will look for corruption now that a newly surfaced email adds fuel to the fire of possible bid-rigging as the gov centralized oversight of the Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program, which pays family members to care for mostly-elderly disabled Medicaid recipients at home.
The smoking gun email — obtained via a FOIL request by Empire Center watchdogs — confirms that state officials were in contact with reps for Public Partnership LLC, or PPL, weeks before lawmakers even authorized bidding on managing the home-care program, and long before PPL won the five-year, $1 billion contract to oversee CDPAP…