Big Apple education officials funneled $745,000 to a single Caribbean restaurant in Brooklyn over the past year – with numerous orders for jerk chicken and other cultural favorites blowing past spending limits, officials said.
And some $618,000 of the Department of Education‘s massive tab was racked up by orders from one middle school to Fusion East — an East New York eatery that’s in a program that steers business toward minority and women-owned shops, officials said.
But Fusion East’s politically connected owner Andrew Walcott insisted Monday his food and service is worth the loyalty from the DOE — though he claimed the middle school tried to stiff him after he helped bail administrators out in a time of need.
Comptroller Brad Lander’s office raised the alarm about the hefty spending earlier this year, asking the DOE about the shocking figures, according to a May 30 letter obtained by The Post…