Ferry captain Michael Gansas was suspended for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into last week's fatal crash in Staten Island. Assistant captain Richard Smith remains hospitalized following a suicide attempt.
Bloomberg said he's suspending Gansas, who has refused to talk to probers about why he was apparently away from his post in the boat's front pilothouse during last week's ferry disaster. The city is also looking into legal action against the 38-year-old, the mayor said.
"It's an outrage that somebody who can give us information to perhaps find out how we can improve service refuses to talk," said Bloomberg, who received a letter from Gansas today saying the skipper refused to meet with investigators, despite a federal subpoena ordering him to do so.
"A person like that has no business working for this city," he told reporters at a Lower Manhattan news conference this morning.
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