TWU Officials To Avoid Jail

According to a Daily News EXCLUSIVE, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint will avoid jail for his part in engineering the union’s “ILLEGAL STRIKE”:

State prosecutors won’t seek jail time for transit union leader Roger Toussaint, making it likely he’ll dodge a stint in the slammer for December’s illegal bus and subway strike, the Daily News has learned.

State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office, however, is moving to cut off — indefinitely — Transport Workers Union Local 100’s financial lifeblood by stopping the automatic deduction of union dues from 33,700 workers’ paychecks. That amounted to $19 million — or 90% — of its revenues in 2004, according to state Labor Department records.

A law enforcement source told The News that Spitzer’s office has decided not to ask Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Theodore Jones to impose a jail term on Toussaint or his top deputies for the illegal three-day strike that crippled the city.