Posted on 12/07/2008 8:25:50 AM PST by Libloather
$1M SLAP AT SPITZER DAD OVER RACIAL BIAS
By PILAR CONCI and TODD VENEZIA
Last updated: 2:28 am December 6, 2008
The father of disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer suffered his own disgrace yesterday, when a Bronx jury found he discriminated against four black employees and ordered him to pay more than $1 million in penalties.
The jurors took about four hours to decide that racism prompted Bernard Spitzer, 84, to improperly fire a doorman and three porters in 1999 from a building he owned at 150 E. 57th St. in Manhattan.
The jurors ordered him to pay a total of $1.3 million to Anthony Haydenn, 34, Akim Rodriguez, 38, Leanard Boyce, 71, and Treavor Morris, 32.
The men originally filed suit nearly a decade ago, and were hoping to get $8 million from the ex-governor's millionaire dad.
Still, the four men said they were pleased.
"I'm happy," Hayden said. "It's a decision that was long overdue."
"I feel vindicated," Rodriguez added. "We worked hard, we should have [what] we were entitled to."
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No problem.
I have tried civil jury cases in The Bronx, and am familiar with the demographics.
Why don't media types do the same with disgraced former Pres. bill clinton?
The website of the plaintiffs.
Roger Stone must be smiling.
He and Bernard have history.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3607708.ece
oh please....this slime bucket will appeal this and wind up paying 1% of this in the long run.
Isn’t it pretty obvious that if Mr. Spitzer were a racist he wouldnt have had the four of them working for him in the first place?
Just because I’m no fan of liberals does not mean I believe that they or their family members cannot be innocent of charges against them. Particularly when we are talking about what might very well have been a rent-seeking lawsuit filed by other liberals.
” Paterson’s speech was certainly no exception. Even though he became governor of New York in quite a surprising fashion, it’s not the governor title that he wants, apparently. Paterson’s real goal, he said, is to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps and be president of the United States, because: “Once you go black, you don’t go back.” “
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