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Kamar Samuels swimming waist-deep in NYC schools’ corrupt waste

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Kamar Samuels, the city schools chancellor, is now enmeshed in a personal scandal — and a far larger systemic one.

Both were on display this week as his Department of Education minions tried the old “dog ate my homework” excuse as they refused to share contracting information with the City Council.

The DOE spends about a quarter of its $43 billion budget on these contracts, yet Chief Procurement Officer Elisheba Lewi testified that it would “take months” to produce the info for the council, as it’s all on “a secure system that very few people have access to.” 

If that’s not an outright lie, then the DOE has no way to monitor these outlays for fraud, waste or other abuse — which is even more damning: They can’t truly explain $10 billion a year in outlays.

“I mean, this should take like an hour of work to do,” Speaker Julie Menin rightly summed up of the........

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