Schools Chancellor David Banks never obtained a waiver to meet with vendors who hired his younger brother, Terence, despite a possible conflict of interest, officials told The Post.
No such waiver was granted to Chancellor Banks, who met with Marlon Lindsay, the CEO of a tech-ed company that later collected $1.4 million in taxpayer funds from city schools.Within a month of hiring Terence, Lindsay landed a private meeting with the schools chancellor in October 2022. Since then, asby The Associated Press, the company was hired for programs to help schools teach artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation.
On Friday, DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer would not explain why Banks had no COIB waiver to meet with Lindsay, but sought to separate the chancellor from the vendor’s lucrative gigs, suggesting the hiring of 21stCentEd was out of his hands.