Cuomo suit accuses NY sen of sham training program (sues him again)

Source: Business Week

Embattled state Sen. Pedro Espada enriched himself at the expense of poorly paid laborers by setting up a sham job training program, state authorities charged Wednesday in a civil lawsuit.

The suit, filed by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, claims that a property management company set up by Espada and his son to perform work at health clinics they controlled paid janitorial workers as little as $1.70 per hour by mislabeling them as trainees.

In lieu of a full paycheck, the suit said, workers earned a worthless certificate recognizing them for completing a "healthcare maintenance internship."

"The job training program was a sham. There was no training, there was no program," Cuomo said Wednesday. He said at least 100 workers had been victimized since 2005.



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More at the link. This is the second lawsuit Cuomo's filed, this one was filed today.

Edited to include details about first suit at this link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jb2Pb7ZdJnQR92Na4WS4V0lSeCBgD9F7H4S00

What did he think when he pulled his shenanigans in the senate, that they wouldn't get him, and that with all his dirty little deals, that payback wouldn't ne a bitch?