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Former CB 6 district manager cleared of questionable pay-raises
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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
AND KEVIN DUGGAN
A former longtime Brooklyn
civic leader was found not
guilty in Brooklyn Supreme
Court on June 14 of using bogus
documents to give himself
multiple pay-raises from the
city, which totaling more than
$16,000 annually.
Craig Hammerman, the former
longtime District Manager
of Community Board 6 — which
stretches from Park Slope to
Red Hook — was facing seven
years behind bars for using two
colleagues’ signatures to grant
himself four salary bumps over
a three-year stretch.
The jury accepted Hammerman’s
defense that, because he
had been authorized to use the
signature for community board
business, he was allowed to use
them in four raise-requests to
the city, between May 2015 and
October 2017, to increase his
salary from $105,180 to $121,931.
“I believed I had the authority
to act on my own,” Hammerman
told the jury on June 11. “I
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