Thursday, December 23, 2004
New York Sun December 17, 2004:In exchange for theater tickets and limousine-chauffeured dinner dates, employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey granted no-show jobs to contractors who were supposed to be clearing wreckage from the World Trade Center, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
"We were providing checks for employees that did not exist," the Port Authority's inspector general, Robert Van Etten, said.
Seventeen men, including four Port Authority employees and contractors from three companies, were charged with enterprise corruption for defrauding the Port Authority out of as much as $2.5 million. The contractors allegedly inflated prices for materials, accepted payment for "ghost" employees, and profited illegally from cleanup jobs related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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