New Charity Watchdog Appointed for New York State
by The Daily Eye Team January 20 2014, 11:37 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secsJames Sheehan, who served for four years as New York’s first Medicaid inspector general, will on Friday be named the new chief of the Charities Bureau, an agency of the New York attorney general’s office that supervises charitable organizations.
Mr. Sheehan, a 61-year-old attorney, will lead an agency of roughly 70 employees tasked with a mix of enforcement activities, trust regulation, oversight and public outreach.
He succeeds Jason Lilien, who left the top job roughly four months ago to lead the nonprofit-organizations practice at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, a New York law firm.