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Former State Thruway workers’ union lawyer gets jail for stealing $184G

The former top lawyer for the State Thruway workers’ union was sentenced today to 2 2/3 to 8 years in prison for stealing $184,000 from the union.

Kevin Clor, 34, apologized at his Manhattan State Supreme Court sentencing, saying “Nobody made me do what I did.”

Earlier, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 72 union president Martin Latko blasted Clor as a “cold calculating thief” in a victim’s impact statement.

“Goodbye and good riddance,” he said.

Clor pleaded guilty in June to grand larceny for ripping off the union that represents more than 2,500 Thruway Authority toll collectors, grounds workers, janitors, painters and carpenters.

Clor, who served as the union’s general counsel for a decade, “meticulously created invoice after invoice, submitted each one, and cashed each check until he ran the union almost dry,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Jose Fanjul said.

Clor’s lawyer, Jeremy Saland, argued for probation instead of a jail sentence, saying his client has health problems and spent much of the stolen money on treatment for his autistic son.

“This isn’t for a Ferrari. This isn’t for jewelry” or any luxury, Saland said.

But Justice Carol Berkman imposed the sentence and ordered Clor to pay restitution. “As a lawyer you had a moral and ethical obligation to know better,” she told him.