Culture of corruption: Newspaper edition
The printing plants of several newspapers in New York City were raided today as part of a corruption probe into union/Mob ties.
It will be interesting to see how vigorously the newspapers cover the story, no?
A law enforcement official says the New York Police Department raided circulation offices at some of the nation’s largest newspapers as part of a union corruption probe.
The official says the offices of The New York Times, the New York Post, El Diario and the Daily News of New York were raided Tuesday. The official spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The official says the newspaper delivery system around the city is under investigation. It was unclear whether the news operations were involved, although the official initially said they were not.
The 1,600-member union that delivers papers was previously accused by the Manhattan district attorney’s office of being run by the mob.
The New York City police raided the offices of three major city dailies and El Diario on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption within the union that delivers newspapers in the metropolitan area.
A warrant was served at the printing plant of The New York Times in College Point, Queens, by New York City police officers working in conjunction with the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, as investigators sought paperwork related to the work of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which bundles and trucks newspapers across the region.
The offices of The New York Daily News on West 33rd Street, The New York Post on Avenue of the Americas and the offices of El Diario, a Spanish-language newspaper, in the MetroTech center in Brooklyn, were also searched, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
No one was arrested, and the search warrants issued sought to collect records.
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Crooks. Unions and newspapers. Where’s The One?
LOL! an propaganda machine run by a union with mob connections??? Say it ain’t soooo…./sarc
Physician heal thyself!
Will they still wonder why circulation is down?
Just business as usual. Probably somebody at city hall did not get his kickback on time.
Did any of these newspapers make a negative remark about this bho?
L
Shouldn’t that be bho-zo?
I know, sounds like a photo-op to me.
babiesgrandma,
Sorry to be ignorant, but what is bho-zo?
L
Paperboys are unionized? Times have changed since I got $.01 a paper.
Who knew the Gray Lady’s last name was Soprano!
sound it out
You are all mistaken. This was setup as a reason to increase circulation and readership. They want people to sympathize with “the plight of the media.”
I’m sure someone will attempt to point out this investigation started during the Bush administation…
60 percent of circulation went to the mob for resale at fish markets and the rest to Alzheimer patients who never subscribed to the NY Times. Now we know why circulation continues to fall. The union mob is keeping more newspapers for themselves in lieu of worthless Obama treasury dollars.
Bho-zo as in “Bho-zo the Clown”
bho = Barack Hussein Obama
Show me the difference between union goons running the printing plants and the Obama administration running the newspapers. Do you think the congress will investigate this?
dan708,
When we talk about this bho-zo at our home, we use the H part.
Thanks to all for your reply. Guess I need to read realll slow.
L
Is Chicago next … ? ? ?
I’m hoping its Washington DC!
The NYT article is proof positive they can stick to the facts without slanting them, if they want to, but they dont.
Meh. The mob is nothing. I worry about the communist and anarchist tendencies of the NYTimes.
Bear in mind that executing a search warrant is one of the final steps before summoning a grand jury for indictment.
Mob= TAX EVASION!
The New York Times was involved? Oh, that’s a shame. (Heavy sarc)
Soliciting donations from Crooks, Unions and newspapers?