GOP nominee for Queens DA would step aside for 'good candidate' Lasak
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“Judge Lasak is a neighbor of mine and I think he’d be a good candidate.”
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JFK contract workers strike, citing poor conditions
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Employees of Eulen America are speaking out about Eulen’s “long history of mistreatment of their almost exclusively immigrant workforce.”
Read MoreOPINION: The ‘shame’ of detaining a pregnant woman in ICE jail
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“I am horrified that our federal government and our local elected leaders are allowing people to be jailed for no reason.”
Read MoreActivists at City Hall demand answers in death of Layleen Polanco
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“It’s been 19 days now since Layleen Polanco was found dead in her cell at Rikers and we’ve had no action from the city.”
Read MoreAdvocates urge MTA to bring buses to Ridgewood Reservoir
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The Ridgewood Reservoir is difficult to get to for many Queens residents who depend on public transportation.
Read MoreMaldonado Cruz defeats Gibbons in rare contested judicial primary
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“AOC’s victory reminded me of my obligations to stand up for what is right.”
Read MoreRidgewood man pleads guilty to trafficking teen girls
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Eddy Florence, 34, admitted to placing prostitution advertisements on various escort service websites, such as Backpage.com, for the two teen victims, aged 13 and 15.
Read MoreCUNY courts adult learners
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CUNY is trying to turn the back-to-school idea upside down, launching efforts to court older adult learners who may have dropped out of college in the past.
Read MoreKorean restaurant owner convicted of exploiting employees
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Kum Gang San restaurant on Northern Boulevard in Flushing. Photo via Google.
By Phineas Rueckert
A Korean restaurant owner in Flushing, convicted of underpaying and denying overtime to employees, is in more hot water after a panel of judges found that he attempted to circumvent paying out the $2.7 million judgement by transferring properties to family members.
Ji Sung Yoo, the owner of the restaurant Kum Gang San, was found guilty of wage theft in 2014. One former employee alleged that Yoo forced bussers to work 20-hour days without overtime pay. Yoo also reportedly forced them to do other denigrating tasks without receiving any overtime, such as mowing his grass, shoveling snow in his driveway, and picking cabbage at his friend’s farm on their day off.
In March 2015, Yoo was asked to pay $2.7 million dollars in back wages and damages to the former workers. In order to avoid paying the judgement, Yoo allegedly transferred several properties — in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan — to family members, which allowed him to claim he was insolvent and couldn’t pay out the judgement.
Yoo has since filed, and subsequently lost, two appeals in the Second Circuit Appeals Court — with the most recent coming on June 6.
“Too often, low wage immigrant workers can obtain a back-pay award in court but have no means to enforce judgment to collect from dishonest employers,” Jackson Chin, Senior Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, said in a statement earlier this month.
On June 18, Yoo and his family faced a civil contempt hearing, which never took place according to Kenneth Kimmerling, the Legal Director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, who was contacted by the Eagle.
“It’s been resolved — that’s all I can say,” Kimmerling said of the case.
Cardi B pleads not guilty to assault charges in Flushing strip club brawl
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“Not guilty, sir, honor,” Cardi told Justice Joseph Zayas when asked how she would plead.
Read MoreCabán leads Katz in too-close-to-call Queens DA primary
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“She shows me we can achieve the bold, transformational change that we deserve.”
Read MoreLIVE Results in the Queens District Attorney Democratic Primary
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Up to the minute results.
Read MoreMTA will extend discounted LIRR ticket program for another year
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Riders pay just $5 for a one-way fare, no matter the time of day.
Read MoreICE has made 6 arrests inside NYC courthouses this year, OCA reports
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The most recent arrest inside a courthouse occurred in Queens Criminal Court on June 17.
Read MoreAdvocates rally for Layleen Polanco at City Hall Wednesday
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Activists will “demand accountability and lay out policy changes that must happen to end the convergence of carceral systems that led to Polanco’s death.”
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