Back to School for Bus Hoods

The Village Voice ^ | Sept 10, 2009 | Tom Robbins

[AtlasStalled]

In a different kind of back to school special, a pair of brothers who served as top officials of the union representing city school bus drivers pleaded guilty today to extortion charges in Manhattan federal court. Nick and Paul Maddalone became, respectively, the fourth and fifth high-ranking executives of Local 1181 of the American Transit Workers Union to admit their roles in a long-running scheme to extort payoffs from bus operators in exchange for not enforcing union contract rules. The brothers had been influential union delegates and trustees of the local which was long under the thumb of the Genovese crime family. Until the Voice wrote about his role last year, Paul Maddalone was considered a favorite to succeed Salvatore "Hot Dogs" Battaglia - now serving a 57-month sentence - as president of the 15,000-member local.

[Walkingfeather]

LOL,let me see if I got it straight. Create the rules then, get paid not to enforce them. Hmmm sounds like congress.

[pepperdog]

Salvatore “Hot Dogs” Battaglia

The name alone....

[Vaduz]

Spot on