CITY HALL — A city employee fired for stealing confiscated cigarettes and selling them at his family's convenience stores won't get his job back, the city's inspector general said Monday.
According to city Inspector General Joe Ferguson, the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection supervisor was originally fired six years ago after being charged with "stealing government property and official misconduct." He was accused of stealing $2,000 in cigarettes that had been confiscated by the city and then reselling them at convenience stores owned by his family.
He pleaded guilty to the crime in January 2015 and received two years probation. At the time he was identified in news reports as Abd Ayesh, a then-36-year-old former city supervisor who had lost a $67,000-a-year job.
Reporter Ted Cox found lots of interesting information in the latest IG report.
According to the quarterly report issued Monday by Ferguson, the former supervisor of tax and license compliance tried to get his job back after claiming he pleaded guilty because his lawyer told him it was "the deal that was best for him."
He argued to get his job back in a November hearing with the Human Resources Board, but according to Ferguson the board upheld the firing in January. The board's hearing officer found his testimony "was not credible," Ferguson's report said.
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