Security guards at a firm that holds tens of millions of dollars in government contracts routinely falsified timesheets to claim hours when they weren’t on the job at New York City Housing Authority developments, putting residents in danger, a report by the city Department of Investigation released Wednesday alleges.
FJC Security (also known as Allied Universal) — which also has $6.5 million security contract with the mayor’s office — has provided security and fire watch guards at public housing developments for years, most recently under a $76 million contract awarded in 2019 that has since ballooned to $155 million, records show.
DOI alleged that security guards “frequently abandoned their posts or failed to show up for work,” covering their tracks by falsifying handwritten timesheets claiming to have worked an entire shift when they were absent for hours — and in some cases not on site for their full eight-hour shift…