NJ labor inspector admits taking $1.8M in bribes (looking the other way when firms skirted the law)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

CAMDEN, N.J. - One New Jersey Labor Department investigator pleaded guilty Monday and a second was charged in a bribery scam that authorities say paid them millions in exchange for looking the other way when the temporary labor firms they were supposed to be monitoring skirted the law.

The operator of one temp business also pleaded guilty in the case while two others were charged.

The temp businesses provide workers to other firms for a flat hourly rate with the deal that they are responsible for making sure the workers are documented, withholding payroll taxes, and providing worker's compensation insurance.

If they can avoid some of their legal duties, their profits go up. And that's what federal authorities said happened in this case _ with payoffs made in bowling alleys and malls, among other places.


Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--investigatorbribe0330mar30,0,4316349.story

[JayMusgrove]

1. I hope he's in jail now

With about a hundred people who are about to be deported.



Maybe THEY will deliver some good old fashioned "justice" to him.

[Downwinder]

2. Hell, they didn't skirt the law -- they drove right through the middle of it. n/t

[Rage for Order]

3. Well, that's one way to save for retirement

I guess he wasn't satisfied with his 3% annual COLA :shrug:

[comtec]

4. Well hes in a cushy cell in club fed to be sure

it's not like people who commit white collar crimes of this level get REAL jail time.
Hell he's probably on "home prison" with a nifty thingie around his ankle.
poor poor billionaire (or are they each 'only' millionaires?)

sad thing is... they played the system how it's set up.
unscrupulous as hell, but honestly... is anyone shocked? this is how the *co government worked back then.

[Robbien]

5. If these guys are doing this in NJ, you can bet Feds in other states are doing it as well

With the Feds hating workers as much as it does, most Fed workers probably feel it is okay to pick the worker's pockets.

[Tempest]

6. It's the state department of labor, not federal

It was the feds who prosecuted him.

[PAStudent]

7. No Different in Wilmington DE

It's no different in Wilmington DE. Worse in fact because it's such an old boy's network in the License and Inspections Department. I have friends who are trying to rehab properties in severely run down parts of town to invest in their future and at the same time provide affordable section 8 housing, and the City keeps putting all kinds of restrictions on anything they want to do (oh, you need engineering drawings if you move a wall, you need a sprinkler system, and on and on). In the meantime, most of the contractors my friends have talked to do work for city inspectors who own property and NEVER get permits or restrictions. They would rather that these neighborhoods stay drug infested rat holes with vacant homes so they can line their own pockets. DISGUSTING.