Waste Removal Firm Faked Finances To Cover Up Strip Club Payments

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — The manager of a regional company that provides solid waste removal and recyclables for Westchester County, along with the company itself, was accused of filing false financial data with a monitoring firm to cover up spending on strip clubs.

Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah said Tuesday City Carting of Westchester and manager Christopher Oxer, 35, of Darien, Connecticut, were charged with six counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a felony.

Rocah said City Carting, located in Yonkers, received more than $20 million annually under its Westchester County contract.

The false filings were made in 2018 and 2019 and were meant to conceal payments to strip clubs, she said. The total amount of the false filings charged Tuesday comes to $135,000, including one instance in which $40,000 was spent in a single visit to one of the establishments, according to prosecutors.

The investigation is ongoing.

Rocah said her office has zero-tolerance for public corruption and misuse of public tax dollars by government employees or contractors.

"The actions of Christopher Oxer and City Carting of Westchester represent a brazen attempt to rip off county residents by including expenditures for items that clearly are not covered under their contract," she said.

Under the contract with the county that has been in place since 2004, City Carting of Westchester operates transfer stations, operates and maintains a materials recovery facility for recyclables and hauls recyclables to that facility from certain locations in the county. The company also provides landfill capacity and other services relating to solid waste removal.

Through an agreement with the county, Kroll Associates, the monitor, was tasked with ensuring that City Carting complies with criminal and civil laws and is not under the influence of organized crime, the district attorney's office said.

CORRECTION: This article has been modified from its original version to delete references to and a photo of a transfer station in Somers, which is part of Win Waste Innovations. According to a spokesperson, Win Waste was formed by combining City Carting, Wheelabrator and Tunnel Hill and does not have any connection to the company being charged, which is City Carting of Westchester.

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