The audit of the city’s emergency contract with the controversial firm DocGo reviewed payments for the first two months of the firm’s emergency contract in May and June 2023 to provide hotel rooms, food and other services to migrants, many in suburban and upstate inns north of the Big Apple.

A draft of the report obtained by The Post concluded that 80% of the first $13.8 million paid to DocGo during the initial two months — about $11 million — should be recouped by the city.

Payments for lodging, security, food and other services were inflated or lacked documentation while oversight of subcontractors was nil, the audit said.

The contract and services were overseen by the city Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD).

“A review of paid invoices for May and June of 2023 found that 80% of the $13.8 million paid to DocGo should not have been paid, either because the amounts paid were not allowable under the contract or they were not adequately supported by documentation as required. If this error rate were applied across the $168 million subsequently paid to DocGo for services as of June 12, 2024, the overpayment amount could reach $134.4 million,” the audit said.

Of the $13.8 million paid out, more than $9 million was intended for DocGo subcontractors that were not pre-approved by HPD, the analysis said.

Lander’s audit flatly claims the COVID supplier-turned-migrant shelter provider was unqualified to handle the challenging task of serving thousands of asylum seekers.

“DocGo lacks experience in providing any type of emergency housing,” the audit said.

The report noted that Lander last September rejected the contract between HPD and DocGo, but Adams overrode his objections. Previous reported complaints include DocGo using unlicensed security guards and staffers mistreating asylum seekers.

The completion of the hard-hitting probe comes just a week after Lander announced his candidacy for mayor, which pits the lefty progressive against Adams, the moderate incumbent, in the Democratic primary next June.

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Sources said the unusual situation of a sitting comptroller running for mayor seeking re-election raises concerns over whether Lander is fulfilling his constitutional duties or using his auditing power as a political club to embarrass rival Adams.

Adams’ office claimed Lander was being nitpicky during an unrelenting migrant crisis.

“At the height of an unprecedented international humanitarian crisis, workers from across the city government were called upon to take swift, decisive action to meet this defining moment with compassion and care for others,” a mayoral spokesman said.

“As mothers needed baby formula and health care workers needed supplies, we put people’s wellbeing before paperwork.”

The Adams rep continued, “The comptroller can nitpick the first two months of an emergency contract over a year after the fact and long after new safeguards were put in place, but he cannot claim to have saved a single migrant family from sleeping on the streets.

“We will continue to pay our partners for the work they do on behalf of the city, particularly amidst a humanitarian crisis.”