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FRAUD * USA - New York Truck Companies Investigated for
New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM -July 9, 2010: -- Federal and local authorities are investigating whether what they say is a network of trucking companies — some of which worked on 1 World Trade Center and the Second Avenue subway — has defrauded union benefit funds, according to court papers and people briefed on the inquiry... Two of the companies employ union drivers and work on public projects like the subway and trade center and are required by federal law to make specified contributions into the union’s pension, health and welfare and other benefit funds for each hour worked by their drivers... The investigation, according to lawyers for some of the companies and people briefed on the matter, is examining whether the unionized companies, aided by five other trucking businesses that court papers filed by the union and city regulators say are linked to the unionized companies, failed to pay more than $430,000 into the benefit funds... The inquiry began with a routine licensing review by the Business Integrity Commission in March 2009, according to court papers. It has grown to include a half-dozen federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the F.B.I. and the inspectors general of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the federal Departments of Labor and Transportation, several of the people briefed on the matter said... The routine review was prompted by Greenwood 2’s application for a city permit to haul construction debris, but commission investigators came across allegations that the company and some of the others were engaging in unfair trade practices, according to court papers filed in connection with the licensing matter... (Photo from Tom White for The New York Times: Trucks for the T.E.V. Corporation and Happy Time Trucking, two of seven companies that city regulators said were linked)Labels: fraud and corruption
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