NY Daily News: Bus company owner accused of stiffing employees lays low in million-dollar home, mum on allegations

The owner of a bus company accused of paying matrons less than minimum wage refused to answer any questions Thursday.

Charles Curcio - whose Outstanding Transport may pay workers as little as $3.90 an hour for ferrying disabled adults to programs around the city - was mum about his matrons' meager paychecks.

Workers' weekly pay assumes they spend only four or five hours a day picking riders up in the morning, taking them to programs then picking them up in the afternoon again.

The matrons, who produced pay stubs showing weekly pay around $200, say the task can take double that time.

The Labor Department is investigating the allegations of the matrons, who are represented by Local 854.

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