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(NJ) Dockworkers with mob ties earn more than $400K for 'working' 24 hours a day…
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Last updated at 12:10 AM on 6th March 2012 | Michael Zennie

Posted on 03/05/2012 10:21:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

A small group of 'made men' with mob ties are raking in more than $400,000 a year as humble dockworkers at ports in New York and New Jersey, a new report reveals.

These longshoremen are being paid for working 24 hour a day, seven days a week — even though they only show up at work as little as 30 hours a week for their cushy gigs.

These huge, inexplicable salaries come as the Port Authority shells out hundreds of millions of dollars in public money to upgrade the ports so goods can continue to flow into and out of the New York area.

The New York Post has named three men with ties to known mobsters who have raked in huge sums of money for working so-called 'low-show' jobs that continue to weigh down New York's ports with unnecessary labor costs.

For more than 60 years, organized crime has had a presence in the shady underbelly of the ports.

The Waterfront Commission, which issued the report naming the three men, was established in the 1950s because the Gambino crime family controlled the ports in New York and the Genovese family looked after the New Jersey ports. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 1950s; gambinocrimefamily; genovese; genovesecrimefamily; mafia; portauthority

1 posted on 03/05/2012 10:21:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 03/05/2012 10:27:01 PM PST by mylife
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To: Olog-hai

And let me guess, they retire with “disability” for higher payout as well...


3 posted on 03/05/2012 10:34:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: Olog-hai

The UK Daily Mail, once again doing the work the American MSM refuses to do.


4 posted on 03/05/2012 11:33:04 PM PST by matt04
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“The New York Post has named three men with ties to known mobsters “


5 posted on 03/06/2012 12:49:55 AM PST by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: Olog-hai

Like this is something new.


6 posted on 03/06/2012 1:03:03 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Gene Eric

If you want to know what’s going on in the US you HAVE to go to foreign news. Sad but true in my opinion.


7 posted on 03/06/2012 1:09:03 AM PST by glyptol
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To: Olog-hai

Hey, youse don’ like it, take it up wid Lucky.


8 posted on 03/06/2012 3:37:55 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

bump


9 posted on 10/01/2024 10:09:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Made men: Dockworkers with mob ties earn more than $400K for 'working' 24 hours a day (but only show up 30 hours a week)
Full headline.

I kinda wish we had longer post titles back then, but hindsight is 20/20.
10 posted on 10/01/2024 10:13:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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