Bernice H. “Harriette” Taylor, who retired last April as Comptroller Joan Pratt’s top lieutenant and clerk to the Board of Estimates, was the person found shredding documents at City Hall last week, multiple sources have told The Brew.

Pratt today confirmed that Taylor was in the comptroller’s office last Friday and, shortly thereafter, agents from the Office of the Inspector General collected shredded paper from the room that Taylor had been using.

Pratt said the agents picked up “some paper from the shredding machine and, I was told, some paper that was in a trash bag.”

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