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Monday, March 3, 2014

Trimet is run by white collar criminals(repost)

We can't get the truth out because mainstream media refuses to cover the side of the story that makes the oligarchs look bad being owned by oligarchs themselves. The Trimet oligarchs literally got away with theft and are still running the transit agency when they all should have been fired after having been caught stealing money in secret

Five months before hiking fares by $8.7 million and cutting bus frequencies for the fifth time in four years, TriMet managers decided, last spring, to quietly end their own pay freeze.
The $900,000 decision was buried in a $20 million budget line labeled "contingency" and never discussed during TriMet’s extensive public hearings about its finances.
Nor did most of the raises show up as line items in TriMet’s official budget, which shows no change for positions that received merit raises.
The management raises were only made public Feb. 23 in a pair of anonymous Twitter posts listing recent pay raises at the agency. TriMet spokeswoman Mary Fetsch confirmed their accuracy in an email Monday.
TriMet managers quietly gave themselves raises just before fare hike, agency says | Portland Afoot

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