The New York Post by Doug Auer and Jeffifer Fermino - December 5, 2011
He’s gone from Butch Cassidy to Ralph Kramden!
An infamous dirty cop — who was caught moonlighting as a bank robber in the 1990s — has a new gig driving a city bus in Brooklyn, The Post has learned. Former Queens cop Paul Voss is now working the night shift driving the B44 bus, some 13 years after his arrest for sticking up five banks — including one when he was on duty. The MTA knew all about his criminal past, but it decided to hire the badge-betraying bandit last April. The now-repentant 44-year-old copped to his unorthodox work history on both sides of the law when he applied to the transit agency and in subsequent employment interviews. But that didn’t preclude him from getting a job, thanks to strict state hiring laws. State agencies are forbidden from using candidates’ criminal histories against them in most cases. “He served a five-year sentence followed by eight consecutive years of gainful employment at a single company,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. “Mr. Voss further revealed his criminal record and work history to the Background Investigations Unit of the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which upheld the hiring decision made by Transit.” After passing the civil-service bus-driver test, Voss was hired by the MTA at $20.38 an hour. That’s pocket change compared to what he was making during his stint as a bandit, when he netted a cool $17,000 for five quick heists in Queens from 1993 to 1997. MTA brass may have shrugged off his felonious past, but some regular riders of the B44 were a little uneasy. “Robbing a bank. That’s a serious charge,’’ said Louis Golden, 57, who rides Voss’ route from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Flatbush. Others were forgiving. “If he acknowledged he made a mistake, why shouldn’t we allow him redemption?” said passenger Teai Reid, 18. Now living in a cookie-cutter single-family home in Lindenhurst, LI, with his wife, the bank-robber-turned-civil servant refused to discuss his new vocation. He was equally taciturn when robbing banks back in the day. His MO involved wordlessly handing over notes demanding cash to terrified tellers. He flashed guns at three of them to show he meant business. At one point, a surveillance photo taken from one of Voss’ robberies was hung in his Queens precinct station house. A fellow cop thought the suspect looked like Voss, but discounted the possibility because it seemed too incredible, The Post reported in 1997. Eventually, Voss was caught in a joint investigation by NYPD Internal Affairs and the Queens DA. Fingerprints left at one of the robberies matched those of the cop. Additional reporting by Julia Marsh - dauer@nypost.com
An infamous dirty cop — who was caught moonlighting as a bank robber in the 1990s — has a new gig driving a city bus in Brooklyn, The Post has learned. Former Queens cop Paul Voss is now working the night shift driving the B44 bus, some 13 years after his arrest for sticking up five banks — including one when he was on duty. The MTA knew all about his criminal past, but it decided to hire the badge-betraying bandit last April. The now-repentant 44-year-old copped to his unorthodox work history on both sides of the law when he applied to the transit agency and in subsequent employment interviews. But that didn’t preclude him from getting a job, thanks to strict state hiring laws. State agencies are forbidden from using candidates’ criminal histories against them in most cases. “He served a five-year sentence followed by eight consecutive years of gainful employment at a single company,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. “Mr. Voss further revealed his criminal record and work history to the Background Investigations Unit of the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which upheld the hiring decision made by Transit.” After passing the civil-service bus-driver test, Voss was hired by the MTA at $20.38 an hour. That’s pocket change compared to what he was making during his stint as a bandit, when he netted a cool $17,000 for five quick heists in Queens from 1993 to 1997. MTA brass may have shrugged off his felonious past, but some regular riders of the B44 were a little uneasy. “Robbing a bank. That’s a serious charge,’’ said Louis Golden, 57, who rides Voss’ route from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Flatbush. Others were forgiving. “If he acknowledged he made a mistake, why shouldn’t we allow him redemption?” said passenger Teai Reid, 18. Now living in a cookie-cutter single-family home in Lindenhurst, LI, with his wife, the bank-robber-turned-civil servant refused to discuss his new vocation. He was equally taciturn when robbing banks back in the day. His MO involved wordlessly handing over notes demanding cash to terrified tellers. He flashed guns at three of them to show he meant business. At one point, a surveillance photo taken from one of Voss’ robberies was hung in his Queens precinct station house. A fellow cop thought the suspect looked like Voss, but discounted the possibility because it seemed too incredible, The Post reported in 1997. Eventually, Voss was caught in a joint investigation by NYPD Internal Affairs and the Queens DA. Fingerprints left at one of the robberies matched those of the cop. Additional reporting by Julia Marsh - dauer@nypost.com
2 comments:
Bank robber as cop...MTA for retirement, like NYPD they are constantly hiring more scumbags.
Component activities of organized crime, have a character secret and well organized, of which case made a social impact very negative, in many states he constituting "cancer perfidious" which weakens the power society, threaten the integrity of government, cause increase taxes which adds the price of goods, endanger safety and jobs of citizens, cause damage businesses are in competition, control by force of moneyunions,finally achieving a strong influence in the sphere of economy, social and especially political.
Romania is a mafia state with not working administration governed by organized crime.
Human trafficking in Romania is a state policy and a modern retail which feed corruption and organized crime. Organized crime is constantly looking for legitimate business that could be used as a cover.
According to data held by the Italian authorities in Roma: 85% of prostitutes in Rome are romanian woman. In Milano: eight of ten prostitutes which practice “job” in Milano are romanian woman including Ioana Visan, Berlusconi's hooker from Curtea de Arges (Curtea de Arges, pimps factory from Romania, manager: local corrupt police). Behind such companies, actually hiding network specializing in recruitment of girls who end up prostitute.
These companies are used as a mask, to support illegal activities, to wash the money, but also because leaders mobs to be seen as successful entrepreneurs.
Besides these companies, strongly related with them, in the town of Curtea de Arges-Romania exist more mafia groups(indestructible mafia groups because even the police are headed) which with the complicity of local taxi drivers, recruit, transport, and place girls to practice prostitution, girls which later are trafficked external in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, etc, by prostitution networks from Curtea de Arges.
...in Denmark, Romania is the country with the most prostitutes and according to Europol, Eurojust, The Times, CNN, the first exporter of prostitution in Europe is Romania.
"Traffico di esseri umani, rapine, usura, omicidi. Ricercati in tutta Europa, ma decisi al grande salto: il sequestro di Voghera. La vera storia dei romeni che hanno terrorizzato il Nord Italia...ha 37 anni e almeno tre identità: George Nan è quella vera, riportata nei certificati di nascita del comune di Curtea De Arges, una cittadina a 150 chilometri a nord-ovest di Bucarest, nella provincia di Pitesti" ...Francesca Folda,Panorama archivio, sulla mafia in Arges (Romania)
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