Penn Pike's director of maintenance fired

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission recently fired Mike Haney, director of maintenance for alleged theft of services. He is said by one of our informants to have had Turnpike contractors do blacktop and roofing work on his personal house, but we don't have any corroboration of that.

The dismissal of Haney was confirmed today by a Turnpike spokesman, but the spokesman wouldn't comment on the reasons.

We earlier reported he was involved in some kind of angry "physical" confrontation with a labor union official at the Turnpike offices a couple of weeks back. That seems to have been a mistake. 

The "physical altercation" is now reported as between Raymond Zajicek, toll operations manager and a Teamsters official. The two incidents are unrelated. 

TOLLROADSnews 2010-08-16 REVISED 2010-08-16 22:45