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To: jlallen who wrote (401807)1/4/2011 3:32:43 PM
From: Alan Smithee1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 794004
 
Finally! Something the Feds are doing I can get behind.

NYC blizzard: Feds open criminal probe
into alleged city worker conspiracy during
storm response

Federal proscutors have opened a criminal probe of
allegations that public employees conspired
to paralyze the city in last week's blizzard, sources
said Tuesday.

The investigation by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's
public integrity unit comes in response to
Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens) revelation that
guilt-wracked sanitation and transportation workers
confessed the alleged work slowdown to him.

If their claim is true, the feds would examine
whether the wire or mail fraud statutes were violated
by pocketing overtime pay during an illegal job
action, sources said.

Halloran vowed Monday to keep confidential the
names of the three sanit and two Department of
Transportation workers who came forward.

A spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta
Lynch refused to confirm or deny the existence of
an investigation.

The city Department of Investigation is also looking
into allegations of a work slowdown in retaliation
for budget cuts and demotions of supervisors
within the Sanitation Department.

Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty has said he
saw no evidence of a job action.

Union officials have also decried the claims.
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