By Ben Brachfeld and Camille Botello
City Comptroller Brad Lander filed suit against two companies that contracted with the MTA to clean subway cars, alleging they stiffed their employees out of more than $2.5 million in wages, amNewYork Metro has learned.
The lawsuits, filed Wednesday in the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, accuse two contractors, Fleetwash and Ln Pro, of stealing wages from cleaners that the Comptroller’s office had already ruled they were entitled to. The MTA onboarded legions of contract workers to clean subway cars at terminal stations at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, during an unprecedented yearlong period of nighttime closures for the system.