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dang, it pays good to be a gangsta

remind me of season 2 of the wire.

At any given time, some 40 percent of the ports’ work force — which includes terminals in Brooklyn, Staten Island and Newark — is being paid but not actually doing any work
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sigh
 
Lol, isn't this always how it works in any mob movie in the NY/Jersey area? You'd think they would at least be watching for this type of stuff, but then...
A small band of longshoremen — including relatives of famous mobsters — were paid for working more than 24 hours a day, every day of the week, at the ports of New York and New Jersey, The Post has learned.
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With that, shouldn't they be looking how high up the chain this goes? It seems like just maybe someone is getting paid off to over look records like that.
 
Well if you think about it, they are paying him for 24hrs a day, thats 16 hrs of OT or a total of 32hrs payed per day based on standard OT rates. Just sayin

Should he be payed that much? no but whatever
 
Mike Gayner said:
Why? There was nine of this in The Wire. It's much more like The Sopranos, which featured exactly this scam in many episodes.
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crooked dock workers, tied in with gansters (the "good dope" came through the docks), payoffs, etc. You obviously never watched season 2.
 
Can't call it extortion because it's in their contract. But it wouldn't surprise me that during "negotiations", it was strongly suggested that to have labor peace it would be a good idea to pay certain people for 24/7 work days. Nice little system they have going.

Now the trash collectors' union will be all upset because they didn't think of that.
 
I think that applies for just about any government job. I remember a story coming out of Toronto last year where they found some subway ticket collectors were making over $100k. They're nothing more than cashiers. Heck, they don't even count the money or hand out the tokens. A machine does it for them.
 
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