Labor's Biggest Loser
      Brian McLaughlin, the disgraced former president of the AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council, needed close to an hour to admit to all his crimes while entering his guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan March 7. Length doesn't always tell the story, but when you're allocuting for that long, it's a sure sign you've been a very bad boy.
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How Trust Leads to Tragedy
      The indictment of an engineer accused of lying about substandard alterations made in a Bronx building where two firefighters died after the floor collapsed puts a spotlight on the city's dubious practice of allowing property owners to self-certify structural alterations.
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