Several kin of the now-deceased legendary Genovese boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante are raking in nearly $2 million a year as "gainful employees of companies on the New Jersey waterfront" as reported by Jerry Capeci for The Huffington Post: "Led by Gigante's son-in-law Joseph Colinna and his nephew Ralpg Gigante – they each 'earn' $400,000 a year as shop stewards – there are 11 members of the Gigante family currently working for New Jersey waterfront companies at annual salaries that average about $175,000. In addition, nine other Gigante family members, including four of the late Mafia chieftan's grandsons, his sons Andrew and Salvatore, as well as a brother-in-law, have earned good livings over the years as card carrying members of Local 1804 of the International Longshoremen's Association, according to recent fact-finding hearings conducted by the Waterfront Commission."
Meanwhile, George T. Daggett, an attorney who has represented the International Longshoremen's Union, is calling for the elimination of the Waterfront Commission in an op-ed for The Record: "The Waterfront Commission lives in the time of Marlon Brando's 'On the Waterfront.' That represents an outmoded and antiquated image of the typical longshoreman. Today the longshoreman is a highly qualified, highly trained, family person whose earning on average about $100,000 a year. No other group of hardworking men and women would tolerate the police state that has been created."
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