A municipal hospital worker who was docked $5,000 for operating a private import-export firm during the work day in 2009 just suffered another $17,224 penalty after being caught again.
Zizet Bastawros, a coordinating manager for New York Health + Hospitals, admitted to exchanging more than 200 e-mails on her work computer over two years to benefit her and her husband’s firm, Golden Sun Import Export, according to city officials.
Bastawros, who’s been employed by the city for more than 27 years, also said she regularly used the agency’s fax machine and phones to promote Golden Sun between August 2015 and September 2017, they said.
She was busted for doing the same thing in 2009 and was suspended for a month, losing $5,000 in salary. She also got nailed then for taking an online defensive-driving course during work hours.
This time around, Bastawros got a 60-work-day suspension that will cost her $17,224 and a warning that if it happens one more time, she’ll be canned. She earns nearly $75,000, according to Health + Hospitals officials.
A rep for Bastawros declined to comment.