5 Fairfield County Restaurants Ordered To Pay Over $858K To Employees: Feds
Following a federal investigation, a total of six Connecticut restaurants and their owners have been ordered to pay over $858,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to employees, officials said.
The restaurants, including five Fairfield County establishments and one in New Haven County, were ordered to pay back wages, withheld tips, and liquidated damages to 105 employees following an investigation and litigation conducted by the US Department of Labor, which announced the order on Tuesday, July 25.
The six restaurants included in the case are:
Scena Wine Bar and Restaurant,…
Landscaping Equipment Worth Over $4K Stolen From Truck In Darien: Police
Police are investigating an incident in which they say thousands of dollars of equipment was stolen from a landscaper while he was on the job.
The incident occurred on Saturday, July 8 in Darien between 2 and 3 p.m., according to Darien Police.
The victim, a landscaper, was working on a job on Dellwood Road during that time period, he told police.
However, when he returned to his work truck, he saw that some of his equipment had been stolen.
The items stolen, which totaled nearly $4,400, were:
A backpack leaf blower;
Two chainsaws;
A pole hedge trimmer; and,
A line trimmer.
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NJ Politico Gets 24 Years, No Parole, For Hiring Hit Men Who Killed, Burned Longtime Associate
UPDATE: A New Jersey political consultant was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for hiring two hitmen to kill a longtime associate from Hudson County.
Sean Caddle, 45, of Hamburg, will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system.
Caddle, a former aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth), admitted last year that he paid the killers to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics.
Galdieri, 52, who'd worked for…
