{"id":762,"date":"2006-03-02T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/twu_officials_to_avoid_jail.html"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:02:03","slug":"twu_officials_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/twu_officials_t.html","title":{"rendered":"TWU Officials To Avoid Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/396075p-335742c.html\">EXCLUSIVE<\/a>, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint will avoid jail for his part in engineering the union&#8217;s &#8220;ILLEGAL STRIKE&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>State prosecutors won&#8217;t seek jail time for transit union leader Roger Toussaint, making it likely he&#8217;ll dodge a stint in the slammer for December&#8217;s illegal bus and subway strike, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s office, however, is moving to cut off &#8212; indefinitely &#8212; Transport Workers Union Local 100&#8217;s financial lifeblood by stopping the automatic deduction of union dues from 33,700 workers&#8217; paychecks. That amounted to $19 million &#8212; or 90% &#8212; of its revenues in 2004, according to state Labor Department records.<\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement source told The News that Spitzer&#8217;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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Daily News EXCLUSIVE, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint will avoid jail for his part in engineering the union&#8217;s &#8220;ILLEGAL STRIKE&#8221;: State prosecutors won&#8217;t seek jail time for transit union leader Roger Toussaint, making it likely he&#8217;ll dodge a stint in the slammer for December&#8217;s illegal bus and subway strike, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}