Union boss hog in 300K hooker scam
A married, obese former president of a Port Authority union admitted yesterday in court to embezzling nearly $300,000 in member dues and using the cash for tawdry hook-ups with prostitutes, casino trips and lavish meals, sources told The Post.
Daniel Hughes, 49, who resigned in disgrace from the local Field Supervisor Association, admitted to Judge Eric Vitaliano in Brooklyn federal court that he stole the cash from January 2005 to last December — bankrupting the account for his 250 members.
Captain Obvious weighs in:
“This PA employee took advantage of his position as a president of a union and abused it in a calculated and egregious manner,” said PA Inspector General Robert Van Etten.
They say diversity is good:
“They hooked up in cheap hotels,” the source added, including the Kew Motor Inn along the Grand Central Parkway, which bills itself on its Web site as “the most famous and exotic couples-friendly motel/hotel in Queens!!”
He also took his dates to the Pelham Garden Motel in The Bronx and the posh Bowery Hotel in the East Village.
All good things must come to an end:
The scam unraveled in December when Hughes began calling in sick and other officials at the union realized their bills were not being paid, a source said.
“What they found was that there was very little money in the union coffers or bank account,” said an investigator familiar with the case.
Not to worry. Barack Obama will use working Americans as a piggy bank to make this union whole again.
Hughes told the judge he was under psychiatric care for posttraumatic-stress disorder, bipolar disorder and depression.
“I’ve been institutionalized a few times,” he acknowledged.
Hughes also said he was being prescribed at least five medications by his doctors, as well as Ambien “to help me sleep.”
“Every time I see a drug advertised on TV, I take it,” he said.
And why not? He can certainly afford it.
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