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Proposal for an online portal to submit and review potentially fraudulent documents

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Council Member Ossé proposes creating an online portal where people can submit potentially fraudulent documents for review by the Department of Finance. This would streamline the reporting process and help identify trends in predatory behavior.

The portal would allow users to upload PDFs or scans of suspicious documents
Department of Finance lawyers or enforcement staff would review the submitted documents
The system could help identify trends and trace shell companies engaged in illicit behavior
The information gathered could be reported to the state or attorney general for enforcement action
Council Member Ossé emphasizes that this would provide a consistent way for people to report issues they encounter daily

Chi A. Ossé

1:07:06

Of course.

1:07:07

Thank you so much.

1:07:08

Listen, I was just reminded, this is prior to remember how I don't remember if you remember, but the Department of Sanitation used to have, like, a drop down window where you could upload different things to it and identifying, like, large items to get picked up.

1:07:22

Talk to their IT department, have the Department of Finance do the same thing.

1:07:26

You could submit a different PDF, have your lawyers, whoever does enforcement in this regard, to review those documents, notice trends, any specific, you know, shell company that can be traced back to doing some of these illicit behavior and report it to the state so that there could be or the attorney general so that there could be some enforcement.

1:07:42

I think just streamlining this process, people know about this problem, they bring it to our office every single day, giving them an opportunity to to report it consistently, and then having you, you know, work with the state on holding those individuals accountable, I think, would be a great step in holding some of these bad actors accountable.

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