Westchester cancels its garbage contract with Joseph Spiezio's firm. Company owes NLRB $780K.

A company owned by Mount Vernon’s controversial deputy police commissioner, Joseph Spiezio, lost its contract to pick up garbage at Westchester County facilities because of a $4.2 million civil judgment for failing to pay employee benefits.

The county Board of Acquisition & Contract last week approved an emergency six-month solid waste contract with City Carting for $720,000 to replace Spiezio’s R&S Waste Services.

R&S, which landed the county contract in 2011, got a new three-year pact in 2017 for $1.4 million after it was the only bidder. The contract would have run to 2020 and the company had a pair of one-year options after that.

But in late March, R&S was found liable for a $4.2 million judgment for violating the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. That decision was for a 2012 federal lawsuit by trust and pension funds of Local 813 of the Teamsters union.

Read more: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2018/07/17/westchster-county-ends-contract-joseph-spiezio-garbage-company/791085002/
(Rockland/Westchester Journal News)

Additional information: http://www.yonkerstribune.com/2018/07/westchester-county-rescinds-solid-waste-carting-contract-with-joseph-spiezio-due-to-780000-arrears-with-national-labor-relations-board-and-4-2-million-in-civil-judgments-for-failure-to-pay-employee