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Scott Stringer: “We went in, we investigated, we recouped the money.”

Featuring: Scott Stringer, Democratic | Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

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New York City Retirees' Mayoral Candidate Interview with Scott Stringer

Published | Video Starts at 42:43

You know, corporations, construction firms that were taking advantage of people, literally not paying them. And one of the things that we did is We went in, we investigated, we recouped the money. and one of the great things was to just bring the people in who had worked on construction projects for the most part years before, owed something like 25, $50,000. (42:43–42:47)

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Asserts that the controller's office conducted investigations and recovered money related to wage theft.

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