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Cuomo Checks Into Hotel Developers Unfair Practices

2009_10_cash.jpg Attorney General Andrew Cuomo now has his eyes set on the city's top two hotel developers who have ties with a contractor recently accused of paying construction workers based on their race. Developers Sam Chang and John Lam— who've created thousands of hotel rooms—used contractor Michael Mahoney, who allegedly paid white carpenters $25/hr, blacks $18/hr and Latinos and Brazilians $15/hr, for a number of their projects. A District Council of Carpenters supervisor said: “Sheetrock, lumber, nails, cost pretty much the same for any contractor. But for these greedy people, labor is the difference and success comes off workers' backs."

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  • Mr Mel

    Didn't those carpenters talk to each other?

  • inoyourider

    Contractor is pretty vague.

    Were these people actually doing the same work?

    Or is this another BS race-based pay-out?

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