Spitzer takes down a crooked restaurrant owner

[UT troll]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/18/news/newsmakers/spitzer.reut/index.htm

It's small, so I'm posting the whole release:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's crime-fighting Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has momentarily turned away from cleaning up Wall Street to crack down on a restaurant owner who was pocketing the tips given to his waiters and waitresses.

Spitzer is better known for pursuing excesses in the financial markets, leading a group of regulators who squeezed $1.4 billion out of Wall Street's top investment banks for improper research practices, but he is also a consumer watchdog.

An investigation by his office between 2003 and 2004 found the owner of the New Delhi Diamond's Restaurant in Ithaca, New York demanded that its wait staff turn over all tips left by customers.

Restaurateur Baldhev Sekhon has now agreed to pay $10,000 in restitution to his staff, Spitzer's office said in a statement Wednesday.

"State law is clear that tipped workers have a right to keep their tips," said Spitzer, who is seeking election next year to become New York's governor.

It is illegal under New York state and federal labor laws for an employer to demand any portion of tips left by customers.



Spitzer is looking better and better to me as a (realistic) VP candidate in '08.

[Frances]

1. Is he Catholic?

nt

[HockeyMom]

2. No

[0007]

3. I indeed like this guy.

We do need good men. Maybe President?

[Frances]

4. I was thinking the same thing

Spitzer doesn't seem like the vice president type of guy.

The reason I asked if he is Catholic is that I don't think I can stomach more of the communion-abortion nonsense.

[0007]

5. I know what ya mean!

[UT troll]

6. Jewish?

I *think* he's Jewish.

Eh, I only threw out the VP thing, but would never want him being second fiddle. I really wish he could run for '08. If Hillary is the nominee, I'm really going to be lukewarm about the campaign, because I'll want Spitzer to have the opportunity in 2012.

I really think Spitzer can do what Reagan did in creating Reagan Democrats. Spitzer Republicans. I like the sound of it. Those republicans not fundies. Those looking for economic policies that help out everyday Americans. I think he could champion his populist, anti-crooked CEO message in the south and pick up A state there.

[UT troll]

7. '08

Spitzer/Rubin '08