Is the Abram Jimenez scandal going to pass without a ripple? It’s been a week since The Post’s Susan Edelman broke the news that he’d been hired despite a massive conflict of interest, yet Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has yet to offer a ghost of explanation, let alone regret.
Jimenez had already quit his $205,000 job last month, after The Post exposed his troubled job history. But it turns out he’d also been in trouble with the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.
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Specifically, while he’d listed ownership of “restricted stock units” from his prior employer, the student-data-management firm Illuminate Education Inc., he hadn’t revealed the value of that stock.
Stock that stood to rise in value as Illuminate started landing millions in contracts with the city Department of Education after Jimenez joined the DOE as “senior executive director of continuous school improvement.”
The DOE says he had recused himself from any decisions regarding Illuminate, but that leaves the door open to informal influence — and to him advising the company on how to score sales here.
Carranza brought Jimenez in. Was the chancellor aware of any of this before The Post reported it? Is he making changes to his hiring process, or retroactively vetting any of his several hires who bypassed established hiring rules?
At a minimum, the City Council should be demanding answers.