Watchdog of the Docks Investigated

The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, an agency created more than 50 years ago to root out corruption on the docks that was immortalized by Marlon Brando, is itself now at the center of a wide-ranging investigation.

Law enforcement officials in New York and New Jersey have spent the past month looking into whether the commission, which oversees the docks and certifies waterfront workers, hired unqualified police officers, inappropriately spent agency money and improperly issued licenses to operate, a government official briefed on the investigation said yesterday.

Investigators from the offices of the New York State inspector general and the New Jersey attorney general have been examining the commission’s records, though it is unclear whether they have issued any subpoenas or interviewed executives there. |Read more|