U.S. Attorney’s Office To Investigate Blizzard Clean Up In NYC

Brooklyn, NY (WIBX) - The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn is reviewing information concerning allegations that sanitation workers purposely botched clean up efforts after the snow storm in the city last month.

A source in the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office is confirming the report to WIBX that members of their department met with City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran, the lawmaker who informed them of the complaint from sanitation workers.

Halloran who met with sanitation department employees after the botched blizzard clean up efforts told investigators that the workers complained to him that they were being instructed to slow down the clean up process.

He then provided the information to the U.S. Attorney's Office and requested an inquiry into the complaint. The confidential source said they are reviewing that information right now and from a federal stand point what the department will be looking at is a conspiracy to commit a fraud, and the fraud could be anything from patting over-time through slow down tactics. They said the case is very preliminary at this point. They added that they are not looking at the Taylor Law because it only applies to civil service employees, job actions and strikes.

WIBX will follow this story as it continues to develop.