NYC Comptroller Threatens to Revoke Mayor’s Authority to Sign $432 Million Migrant-Housing Contract

Medical company DocGO faces growing scrutiny for how it helps manage more than 110,000 illegal migrants who came to the city.

Dozens of recently arrived illegal immigrants camp outside of New York's Roosevelt Hotel, which has been made into a reception center, as they try to secure temporary housing in New York City on Aug. 1, 2023. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York City’s top finance official is threatening to revoke the emergency authority Mayor Eric Adams used to enter into a $432 million, no-bid contract with a troubled medical company to help handle the swelling population of illegal immigrants.

City Comptroller Brad Lander, who reviews all city contracts, said on Monday that he will be conducting a “real-time” audit into the criticized $432 million emergency contract awarded last spring to DocGo, whose top executive abruptly resigned due to a recent controversy.