Friday, June 18, 2010

Boss hog's fat pension

The New York Post reports:
The obese, hooker-happy president of a Port Authority union who stole $300,000 of his members’ dues to pay for lavish meals, gambling and sexual hijinks, plans to retire — and his conviction will not prevent him from collecting a disability pension, sources said yesterday.

Daniel Hughes, who earned $95,914 annually, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court to a stealing the dough over a five-year period beginning in January 2009.