The director of the Department of Correction unit that investigates staff misconduct has been hit with $5,200 in fines and reimbursements to the city for improperly using a government car to commute to and from home and to run “personal errands,” the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board said Wednesday.

Lawrence McGugins, director of DOC’s Special Investigations Unit, used the city car as his personal car 118 times between January 2023 and February 2024, racking up $1,234.81 in 257 E-ZPass trips, which he was forced to repay, and a $4,000 fine, which he was scheduled to repay on an installment plan, the board said.

The board found McGugins was parking the vehicle in an NYPD lot in the Bronx “to avoid the vehicle’s GPS system from triggering an alert” that would occur if he drove it acro

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