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Monitor team's staffing, structure, and expertise

0:37:43

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Neil Barofsky and Matt Cipolla provide an overview of the monitor team's structure, staffing, and expertise. They explain the composition of their team and the rationale behind bringing in various experts to support their work.

The core team consists of about 20-25 attorneys from their law firm
Additional vendors and experts are employed, including Turner and Townsend and Quidel, with approximately 15-20 staff each
The team includes experts in monitoring, investigating, public housing, inspections, capital deployment, and specialized areas such as pest management and lead abatement

Alexa Avilés

0:37:43

In terms of thank thank you for that.

0:37:49

Just to take one quick step backwards, and I'm apologies if I miss it in your early or testimony.

0:37:56

How many how many staff does the the monitor employ?

Neil Barofsky

0:38:05

You know what?

0:38:05

I don't have a So just maybe I'll just take a step back and talk about our structure.

Alexa Avilés

0:38:09

Yeah.

0:38:10

That would be

Alicia Griggs

0:38:10

great.

Neil Barofsky

0:38:11

So we're law firm, and we have our staff, I would guess, is around 20 attorneys.

0:38:17

1525.

0:38:19

25 attorneys who are who are working on this matter.

0:38:23

We also work with various vendors.

0:38:28

We have Turner and Townsend and Quidel, and I don't have those precise numbers.

0:38:34

Do you have a sense but

Matt Cipolla

0:38:35

what else about 15 or 20, and I think Turntown's about the same number.

0:38:40

And what we've tried to do is bring in, you know, people who are experts at monitoring and investigating because we need to for our work to bring in trust We've tried to bring in experts in public housing and inspections because we wanna make sure that the work we're doing is accurately reporting on HUD regulations and all the things that that NICE needs to be doing.

0:39:03

We've brought in experts in capital because also we need to be making sure that the capital funds are being deployed well.

0:39:10

And then more part time experts, but who we can sell when we need something like advice on pest management or lead abatement or some of the more highly technical matters.

0:39:20

So a very core goal of ours is bring in the best people that we can because this should be done by people who are really experts because that's what it's gonna take to get the job done.

Neil Barofsky

0:39:31

But we'll we'll get you the precise numbers after this hearing, if that's okay.

Alexa Avilés

0:39:34

Yeah.

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