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  • Report:  #1136040

Complaint Review: City of New York - New York New York

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eugene - New York, New York,
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Mar
8

If you are associated with the legal profession you did not get this email in error and I will not contact you unless you reply. David Yassky, Dean of the Pace University School of Law is lacking in ethics and in competence. Allow me please to explain

 David Yassky supposedly resigned from his posts as a Commissioner and as Chair of New Yorks Taxi and Limousine Commission in January. He announced his resignation on January second of this year but according to  Dana Rubinstein of New York Capital News he did not resign until after she uncovered the fact that he still retained his Commission post on February eleventh.

 
This is merely odd but Yassky's tenure at the commission was more than odd, as you will see.There is an aspiring leader of a would be taxi drivers' union who for years fought David Yassky and his boss Michael  Bloomberg. tooth and nail. Her name is Bhairavi Desai.
 
Ms. Desai has been scrapping with the abusers and exploiters of taxi drivers for 16 years and was nowhere near her dream of a taxi drivers union. Michael Bloomberg was in a political battle in the state capital with the major taxi medallion owners over plans that while popular with the general public and press were harmful to the drivers Desai hoped to lead. She was in fact on the barricades on the same side as the medallion owners when someone made her an offer that she would not refuse.
 
In fairness to Ms .Desai part of the offer was a fare increase that would go entirely to the drivers which could offset the damage that the rest of the deal would impose on them in the form of increased competition. The drivers also would pay six cents per trip into a benefit fund. The main benefit  the drivers were purchasing ( like it or not). would be counseling about "Obama Care." Also, as it turned out the fare increase is indeed de facto being shared with the medallion owners in spite of reports to the contrary.
 
This six cent per trip tax was to go to Ms. Desai and her Taxi Workers Alliance and she would then provide the services. A hurdle to be overcome was that the Comptroller of the City of New York had to review the contract and approve ( register) it.  This approval  was never granted. The six cents per trip tax continues to be collected and the more naive and less sophisticated drivers believe  that they are purchasing medical insurance.. They are going to be rudely awakened by the  IRS.
 
Yassky and Desai owe the truth to the  drivers now. A press conference and appearances where drivers congregate would be helpful.
 
That a contract submitted by Yassky would be unacceptable is no big surprise. Back in  2010 Yassky promoted a bill to make assaulting a taxi driver a misdemeanor carrying a minimum two year sentence, a legal impossibility in New York.and of course this turned out to be a fiasco that would have embarassed  a person with thinner skin than Yassk has.


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