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Labor record of Catsimatidis' ventures starts to draw scrutiny
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With John Catsimatidis now in the GOP primary race for mayor, the employment practices of his supermarket empire, documented sporadically before in the news media, have begun to attract new attention.
Back when Eliot Spitzer was the state’s attorney general, delivery workers at Gristedes were the subject of a $2.6 million back-pay and damages settlement. Also, as recounted this week by Richard...
