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The top names being floated to replace Iris Weinshall as commissioner of the Department of Transportation are all high-powered women for whom sources say the commissioner's salary of $171,038 would be a pay cut. The current front-runner, according to transit sources, is the woman who lost the position to Ms. Weinshall in 2000: Janette Sadik-Khan, 46, a senior vice president at the engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. Sources say there is a widespread perception that Mayor Giuliani in 2000 appointed Ms. Weinshall to the post due to her political connections — she is the wife of Senator Schumer — and overlooked...

She's married to Sen. Chuck Schumer, but if you're suing city Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall, leave him out of it. A judge has ordered a name correction in a lawsuit filed by ex-Staten Island ferry Capt. Michael Gansas that refers to her as "Iris Weinshall-Schumer." Weinshall, a defendant in the suit, doesn't use Schumer's name. "A motion was filed to correct the caption, as part of a larger motion to dismiss this case, since the commissioner's name was wrongly stated," said Department of Transportation spokeswoman Kay Sarlin. Brooklyn Federal Judge Leo Glasser granted the city's request for the name correction,...