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The Drop

Number 16380
Subject Airports
Source None
State FL
Year 1999
Publication Date Feb. 4-5, Oct. 23, 1999
Summary WAMI-TV reports about "a kickback scheme at the Miami International Airport where skycaps were forced to pay cash back to their supervisors in order to keep their jobs... The cash disappeared into a tip pool and went into the pockets of the bosses. .... After a six-week long undercover investigation where we documented the payoffs on videotape, skycaps banded together and filed suit against their bosses..."
Category Contest Entry
Pages 7
Keywords TAPE TRANSCRIPT Miami-Dade County Commission United Safeguard
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