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The $132,000/Year Punishment
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Way, way back in 2007, I put up a short post about a scandal involving the Hoboken, New Jersey SWAT team, which claimed to have gone on a humanitarian aid trip to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, but ended up partying it up at Mardis Gras, with ensuing photos involving Hooters girls, Jello shots, and SWAT chief Lt. Angelo Andriani posing as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Andriani was later sued by five Hispanic police officers alleging him to be an “unabashed white supremacist.”
Andriani is back in the news, after apparently flashing his badge and berating some TSA employees for allowing a flight crew move ahead of him in a screening line.
Pick your poison in the “rogue cop vs. TSA” squabble. The story within the story linked above is the punishment Andriani received for his exploits in New Orleans: a two year paid suspension. Hoboken taxpayers are “punishing” Andriani by paying him $11,000 per month for 24 months to do absolutely nothing.
Er, can I have some of that punishment?
I wish any job I ever had would have punished me by making me stay home and collect full pay. Thats not punishment, thats hitting the lottery.
Talking of cops and punishment…..it just snowed in Washington DC. What happened to the detective who brought his gun to the snowball fight? Any “punishment”?
Oh, and Radley: I know you were concerned that you looked “shifty” in your recent TV interview. You didn’t look anything like Andriani: now THAT is shifty.
Am I correct in assuming that while Andriani is collecting 2 years salary as a “punishment’, the city of Hoboken is also paying for someone else to do his job?
David: since Andriani’s job was hanging out at strip clubs, dressing up like the Klan, and intimidating people, I am sure that there are plenty of mobsters in the N.J. region willing and able to fill that slot.
Why is it that white supremacists always look exactly like what you would expect a white supremacists to look like? Paler than death and about as personable. You never see one with a tan, full checks, and a smile, they always look a few nose slits away from being Voldemort.
to me, this guy looks typical- he just happened to be the guy ‘caught’. I’m sure he feels the pay is justified because his good name has been dragged through the mud…
Couldn’t wait ’til Monday, huh?
Somebody approved this and is probably still working for Hoboken, AKA America’s Favorite Vacation Destination.
Pick your poison in the “rogue cop vs. TSA” squabble.
That’s an easy one for me. While I question TSA’s policies and have doubts about the competence of airport screeners, I’ve yet to encounter one TSA employee who was belligerent to me or treated me as a second-class citizen because I was a “civilian.” I can’t say the same about cops.
Could that guy look anymore like a psychopath? Agian, why isn’t Obama’s DoJ investigating this man?
Really, that photo looks like a mug shot taken just before the Nuremberg Trials. Man needs to update his “look” for chrissake – to something that doesn’t look like he’s about to open his mouth & demand “your papers, vermin!!”
Is this guy worth 132,000 bucks of the taxpayers money?
I’m guessing that the mayor and council of Hoboken thought it would cost more to fire him: if you wanted evidence that public sector unions are too strong and a barrier to reform, here is one more piece of such evidence.
Hoboken gets an eensy bit of a pass (but just a little) because its Frank Sinatra’s home town.
Really no excuse for this crap, though.
He’s a supervisor, so the rank-and-file union isn’t looking out for him, is it?
#10 – I had a problem with a TSA employee once, and the supervisor was some meek guy who was more interested in the situation going away. He clearly didn’t have the guts to stand up to his subordinate. Anyway, I should have followed up but didn’t.
are we sure of the gender of the person photographed? Looks like a Pat.
So this asshole who looks like a child-molesting Napoleon Dynamite takes home each and every month more for doing nothing than I make in a year, before taxes. Government really is the ultimate racket.
Sad how the “good side” is that at least now he’s being paid to sit on his ass like any other welfare leech, rather than being directly reimbursed for beating, robbing and murdering.
Nice dye job on the hair. Doesn’t help really, the dude still looks like Skeletor wimpy little brother.
Who the fuck do those civilians think they are? Just read an interview with Andriani:
I was going to comment but I’m too busy filling out my application for employment with the Hoboken police dept.