From the top to bedpans
NZPA-Reuter New York Thirty days of bedpan duty has been ordered for New York’s chief administrator of hospitals because he lied about having a university degree. Victor Botnick, who earns SUS7B,OOO ($140,400) a year as chairman of the city’s Health and Hospitals
Corporation, was ordered to spend 240 hours of his free time working eighthour shifts as a hospital orderly, emptying bedpans and doing other menial tasks. The “sentence” was set by Mr Botnick’s boss, the Mayor of New York, Edward Koch, after Mr Botnick, aged 32, admitted he lied in his career resume when he said he
had a degree in biology. Mr Botnick, described as one of Mr Koch’s closest aides, offered to resign, but the Mayor refused to accept his resignation and instead decided on his brand of punishment. Mr Koch said duties as an orderly meant “not administrative work but bedpan work and things of that kind.”
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Press, 9 June 1986, Page 6
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