Dozens of Companies Underpay or Misreport Workers, State Says
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: February 12, 2008

NOTE: It's alway been obvious that the New York Times hugs illegal aliens. They simply cannot even print the term 'illegal alien' nor can they even hardly ever print it's PC acceptable counterpart 'undocument immigrant'. But here we have a news story where the investigation of employers paying employees off the books in the construction and restaurant industries AND NOT ONE WORD OR MENTION OF ILLEGALS, who quite likely make up a large percentage of the focal point of this article!!!

A new crackdown on employers in New York State that are paying workers off the books has snared dozens of companies and uncovered millions of dollars in violations, state officials said on Monday.

In 15 enforcement sweeps, state investigators found $19 million in wages that were not reported to the state and $3 million in underpayments to workers, the state’s labor commissioner, M. Patricia Smith, said at a news conference. Investigators also uncovered nearly $1 million in taxes that had not been paid to the state’s unemployment insurance fund.

“We think this not only is going well in terms of collecting money, but it’s having a real deterrent impact,â€