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Catsimatidis defends labor practices, blasts 'ambulance-chasing' lawyers
John Catsimatidis, reacting to news reports about past labor-related lawsuits against his businesses, took aim today at “ambulance-chasing attorneys that have wreaked havoc, chasing restaurants, supermarkets, drug stores, chasing everybody.”
“Someone has to expose them,” the billionaire businessman, who owns the Gristedes and Red Apple store chains, told Newsday. “You’ve got to protect employees,...