The person in question, Stephen Goldsmith, spent a night in a Washington D.C. pokey after his wife called the police to their home, complaining that her husband had shoved and physically restrained her. When the mayor found out, he called Goldsmith in, and then announced to the press that his deputy
that they had been sloughing off their work because their union was fighting with the city. This turned out not to be the case. The problem was with Sanitation Department organization and management, the purview of Stephen Goldsmith, the deputy mayor who was not in town. Because he was in Washington.
And Bloomberg knew just the man to get CityTime back on track: Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith! Goldsmith was placed directly in charge of the scandal-scarred program following the resignation of the clueless city official supposedly minding the CityTime store.
