"John Paul "JP" Patafio, TWU Local 100's vice president for its Brooklyn bus division, inserted himself into the suspected messy love triangle at a Queens depot by attempting to demote the rep, who was allegedly cheating on his bus-driver wife with another MTA bus driver at the same depot, the union's disciplinary trial committee said. Patafio did "not have the authority to remove an elected official from his position, absent written charges and a trial," the panel said."
""The motivation for removing [the rep], whether because of the vacancy election or the personal situation, is not relevant for a determination of a violation of the Constitution," said trial committee Chairman Michael Capocci in his decision, which Patafio received Tuesday. "J. P. Patafio should be removed from office as Vice President. By majority decision the Trial Committee recommends that J.P. Patafio should be placed in bad standing for a period of three years," he wrote."
John Paul "JP" Patafio, TWU Local 100 vice president for Brooklyn buses, intervened in an alleged affair at a Queens depot by attempting to demote an elected bus-driver representative. He demanded that the representative end an alleged extramarital relationship and tried to suspend him for six months without filing formal disciplinary charges. The trial committee found he lacked authority to remove an elected official absent written charges and a trial. The committee recommended removing Patafio from office and placing him in bad standing for three years, barring him from running for union office. Patafio called the decision absurd and stupefying.
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