BY JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS WRITER
These family ties are green - and may prove criminal.
The two FDNY electricians who made more than $100,000 in overtime alone last year are related - and their earnings are under investigation, the Daily News has learned.
Robert Zerillo is fellow top earning electrician Leonardo Labella's father-in-law.
A Fire Department probe has been launched to determine whether there have been any improprieties with their time sheets, FDNY sources said.
The investigators are trying to determine if one of the electricians supervised the other, and may have signed off on inappropriate overtime, the sources said.
The probe was launched the same day Labella and Zerillo were revealed to be the second and third highest OT earners among city workers.
Zerillo made $111,451 in overtime on top of his $98,971 salary last year, according to city records. Labella made $112,350 in overtime above his $94,795 salary.
Neither could be reached for comment.
Both men do emergency repairs on fire alarm boxes, which Mayor Bloomberg wants to shut down to save money.
Despite Zerillo and Labella's extravagant earnings, an FDNY spokesman said the department cut down on overall overtime costs in the electricians' unit in 2009, trimming more than $1 million from the year before.
The city's total overtime bill fell 3.4% last year to just under $1.14 billion. The top 100 overtime workers made an extra $7.5 million on top of their $8.2 million salaries.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/04/16/2010-04-16_kin_you_believe_fdny_ot_kings_are_related.html#ixzz0lP9Oln75
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