In todays Daily News is a story of a company closed by state officials for not paying overtime to their workers. I don't know if the overtime they were denied were in direct connection with making our uniforms, since I would assume we are not their only customer. But regardless Ray Kelly ordered the department to stop doing business with them and I agree. It would send a terrible message to do business with a company taking advantage of it's employees.
Last Friday was a quite different story though. It turns out a company named Quadrangle Management, which handles investments in our pension fund is under
criminal investigation directly involving our pensions. But when it came time to vote to remove Quadrangle, Kelly did a strange thing. He refused to vote! He
abstained from voting to remove a company under criminal investigation involving our pensions.
That's alarming for two reasons; The first he's our police commissioner and I think it's a valid assumption he would use his office and position to
protect what we worked for is already ours. We are his people, no? The other reason is he's the highest law enforcement official in NYC. How do you decide
to take a pass on terminating ties with a company under criminal investigation?
Some people probably feel as do I, that the mayors relationship with the founder of Quadrangle is the driving force behind Kelly's bizarre non-vote on such
an important matter. This really stinks to the high heavens, and the Attorney General should be looking very hard at this.
