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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (401808)	1/4/2011 6:37:41 PM
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Video Of Apparent Blizzard Clean-Up, Slow-Down Surfaces Probe Launched; Councilman: 'There Will Be Hell To Pay' January 3, 2011 6:28 PM This image from a video obtained exclusively by CBS 2 shows two NYC Department of Sanitation trucks cruising down snow-covered 155th Street with their plows raised. (Photo: CBS 2) newyork.cbslocal.com Criminal investigations are under way to find out why it took so long to dig out from last week’s massive snow storm. Videos released exclusively to CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer suggest that the clean-up job may have been dirtier than once thought. PHOTO GALLERIES: Blizzard Slams East Coast \| User-Submitted Pictures One video is now in the hands of prosecutors. It shows two sanitation trucks driving down 155th Street in the Whitestone section of Queens after the blizzard without removing the snow. Their plows were apparently raised and the snow was left untouched in their wake, apparent proof that some in the Sanitation Department engineered a work slowdown. “[It’s a] tremendous shock,” said NYC Councilman Daniel Halloran, R-Queens. WCBS 880 Reporter Rich Lamb talks with Sanitation Commisioner John Doherty about a possible slow-down Halloran said he was told by a number of sanitation workers that their supervisors told them to take their time, that one at City Hall cared about them. But sources tell Kramer that’s just one of the things in the city’s botched blizzard response being investigated for criminal wrongdoing by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, the Department of Investigation and district attorneys in Queens and Brooklyn...

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