Honcho accused of using power to hire family to pay $12K fine

Gloria VelezPhoto: Facebook

A former municipal hospital administrator spotlighted in The Post for using her position to help family members land jobs in the system has agreed to pay a $12,000 fine, the Conflicts of Interest Board announced Monday.

The Post disclosed on March 5 that Gloria Velez was forced to resign as a senior human-resources director in October 2014 after investigators found she had helped relatives get jobs at Health and Hospitals Corp.

Velez told The Post at the time that the charges were not true and she had nothing to hide.

But in her settlement, she admitted violating the citys ethics rules when it came to a daughter and her partner.

Velez said she arranged for her high-school-age daughter to be an unpaid intern in HHCs central office between June 2003 and August 2006 even though she wasnt screened or in any formalinternship program.

Instead, I directed my subordinates the associate director of human resources and a personnel/labor relations associate to supervise the work of my daughter during the internship, Velez said in the settlement.

Velez also conceded that her daughters domestic partner reported to her.

Glorias husband, George Velez Sr. and her children, George Velez Jr., Gina and Gianelle Velez.

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Honcho accused of using power to hire family to pay $12K fine