New York once boasted the nation's finest labor department, an agency that aggressively rooted out abuse and wage underpayments, and served as a first line of defense for the state's working men and women. However, the agency that once dispatched its agents into the field to inspect every workplace now waits passively for complaints to come to it. Robbins discusses the bribery trial in the federal court of White Plains NY, of former state labor commissioner James McGowan, who is alleged to have taken cash payments from an old friend John Segreti.

Corruption in government