March 26, 2010
The city’s former chief crane inspector admitted taking more than $10,000 in payoffs to fake inspection and crane operator licensing exam results, selling out a 26-year career bit by bit over nearly a decade. James Delayo showed no emotion Tuesday …
October 5, 2009
Corruption in New York City’s construction industry ran so deep that mobsters worked as city building inspectors in recent years, prosecutors said Thursday. One reputed Lucchese crime family member used his city Department of Buildings job to recruit customers for …
June 10, 2009
A marketing executive for the German toy maker Steiff filed an $80 million lawsuit Monday accusing the company’s CEO of raping her in a car during a yearslong campaign of unwelcome advances. Jane Collins’ lawsuit says the company, known for …
March 6, 2009
Veteran doctor John Muney says his flat-fee, $79-a-month medical practice is a formula for making health care affordable and patient-friendly. But New York regulators see it as self-styled insurance and have told him to shut it down. The dispute, which …
April 25, 2008
Only hours after New York City announced plans to ratchet up scrutiny of construction dangers, a construction worker was seriously hurt in a 25-foot plunge off a scaffold at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, authorities said. The worker fell …