Have Weinshall and David Gest every been seen in the same place together?
Posted on 07/20/2006 10:17:02 AM PDT by neverdem
She's married to Sen. Chuck Schumer, but if you're suing city Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall, leave him out of it.
A judge has ordered a name correction in a lawsuit filed by ex-Staten Island ferry Capt. Michael Gansas that refers to her as "Iris Weinshall-Schumer."
Weinshall, a defendant in the suit, doesn't use Schumer's name.
"A motion was filed to correct the caption, as part of a larger motion to dismiss this case, since the commissioner's name was wrongly stated," said Department of Transportation spokeswoman Kay Sarlin.
Brooklyn Federal Judge Leo Glasser granted the city's request for the name correction, adding, "I don't think there needs to be any discussion about that."
Gansas, who was fired for refusing to cooperate in the investigation of the ferry crash that killed 11 passengers in 2003, is suing to get his job back.
He was AWOL from the wheelhouse when the assistant captain lost consciousness, allowing the Andrew J. Barberi to ram a dock on Staten Island.
Gansas' lawyer William Bennett insisted he was not being mischievous by making such a pointed link between Weinshall and her politically connected spouse.
"It was not a subliminal message," Bennett said yesterday. "I thought it would be proper to use her full name."
Spokesmen for Weinshall and Schumer (D-N.Y.) did not return calls for comment.
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BTW, nice tag line. Check mine out.
Actually yea, it can at times relate to my current job.
I'm farmiliar with how the mob is or gets involved.
I know a few folks in the "waste disposal" business.
If you want to laugh, the biggest problem the mob has with garbage hauling (and slowly now, also the protections racket) is major corporations or big businesses that simply don't care, and have better connections to law enforcement and politicians.
Mob guys themselves often will whine, complain, and cry about how corporate american is killing their "business" and making it harder to "earn".
The mob, almost always uses 3rd parties and fronts, for obvious reasons, but they are having their fair share of alot of problems now, and have seen their back broken on the carting business, they got their rear ends handed to them on the fish market (one of my friends got a job there years ago through a connected guy, once that place was cleaned out, even alot of legit folks were screwed), and even the fireworks thing no longer makes money for them.
Have Weinshall and David Gest every been seen in the same place together?
In all seriousness, though...I hope she wins the suit. No way should the captain of a ferry that killed 11 passengers get his job back.
I really don't need a /sarcasm tag do I?
"Gansas' lawyer William Bennett insisted he was not being mischievous by making such a pointed link between Weinshall and her politically connected spouse.
"It was not a subliminal message," Bennett said yesterday. "I thought it would be proper to use her full name."
Spokesmen for Weinshall and Schumer (D-N.Y.) did not return calls for comment."
At last, Chuckie is silent and not hogging a photo op!!!
I suspect there's a bigger issue here than just the captain's job. I believe the Department of Transportation in the City of New York was found to be grossly unqualified to oversee ferry operations (because the city DOT is primarily involved in streets and traffic, and ended up overseeing the ferry operations as a result of some kind of bureaucratic re-shuffling) -- which means this guy may have a very legitimate claim that the DOT had no business firing him when the agency itself was one of the primary culprits in the incident.
I think Andrea Dworkin had the same kind of arrangement with her husband.
I remember the Fish Market deal ~ at the same time the very same company that moved in and pushed out the Mob also tried to move into my neighborhood down here in Virginia.
First thing was I needed a special pick up, so I called them and made arrangements for it. Even paid in advance. They didn't pick up and didn't pick up and didn't pick up for weeks. It became an embarrassment because the stuff was out on the sidewalk ready for pickup (as required).
Finally I managed to flag down one of their trucks. The driver told me "You gots to pay", meaning I had to pay him a bribe before he'd do what the company told him to do.
I took that to the county board ~ figured I could get their license pulled for that kind of nonsense.
No doubt they pull the same stuff in NYC, so what's the difference between them and the mob?
I'm in N.Y. State and I did not know Schumer was married. Very strange.
Not a whole lot, differance might be that in NYC, some politician looking for a name might make a big deal out of it, or corporate might try and fire the guy if they hear about it, the unions are corrupt as hell over here though (as they seem to be everywhere).
Whenever I deal with some idiot who wants a bribe, I handle by just going over their heads. The higher up, the better, or getting a lawyer to make a phone call, it usually puts an end to the nonsense.
That picture is a woman!
Thanks for the ping!
"That's a man, baby!"
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