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Pay Dirt: Worker Protection Unit at Manhattan DA's digs up stolen wages 

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 9/5/25

Since its inception in February 2023, the Worker Protection Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has recovered and disbursed $1.3 million in wages owed to about 50 workers whose bosses knowingly underpaid them. 

For the unit’s lawyers and investigators, their work, unfortunately, goes on. 

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