NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels signed improper $180K contract with unapproved vendor — and let his deputy take the fall

Source: New York Post

NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels signed and then covered up an improper, $180,000 no-bid contract with an unapproved Department of Education vendor when he was superintendent of an Upper West Side school district, The Post has learned. A report issued by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools left Mayor Mamdani’s hand-picked chancellor entirely unscathed — while his former District 3 deputy, Mariela Graham, took the fall. The DOE’s independent watchdog found she and vendor Sean Kreyling, whose companies provided temporary foreign-language teachers to city schools, “conspired” to evade DOE procurement rules.