Nicholas Scoppetta
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Scoppetta Nicholas Scoppetta
Nicholas Scoppetta said that the numbers were already dropping when the system was probably at its worst who was appointed commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1996 and who oversaw a multi-million dollar reconstruction of the agency. Two years into Mr. Scoppetta's overhaul of the agency, the number of child deaths spiked, to 36. Mr. Scoppetta said that Child welfare was enormously complicated, and that was why you saw errors of judgment, even when they were going by the rulebook.