As such, no sourcing or verification of claims within.

Verification of claims is performed using approved testing laboratories.

His firm handles municipal public records, and he hires Bartleby, a former employee in the postal service's dead-letter office, to help with the filing, verification of claims and whatever else it is the company does.

City Councillor Bruce C. Bolling, who called for city and state investigations, said in an interview last week: "These instances show a glaring lack of verification of claims of minority status by the state, which monitors Civil Service exams and hiring.