New York attorney general arrests construction firm owner for wage theft

[meow2u3]

Usually, crimes employers commit against workers are punished by nothing more than fines and financial settlements—and fines that often get bargained down to laughable levels, at that. So the news that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has actually arrested a construction firm owner for wage theft and laundering stolen wages? That's real news.

Leonid Fridman has been arrested for not paying his workers the wages they were legally due on work at JFK airport in 2009 and 2010:

(more at link)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/04/1184578/-New-York-attorney-general-arrests-construction-firm-owner-for-wage-theft

Time to take this nationwide, including passing Federal laws criminalizing wage theft--making it a felony.

[idwiyo]

1. That's nice. Now lets see a conviction. Also 3 years before arrest, really? That's pathetic.