The NYPD raided the offices of three major NYC dailies and El Diario on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption within the union that delivers newspapers in the metropolitan area.

A warrant was served at the printing plant of The New York Times in College Point, Queens, by NYPD officers working in conjunction with the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, as investigators sought paperwork related to the work of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which bundles and trucks newspapers across the region.

The offices of The New York Daily News on West 33rd Street, The New York Post on Avenue of the Americas and the offices of El Diario, a Spanish-language newspaper, in the MetroTech center in Brooklyn, were also searched, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

No one was arrested, and the search warrants issued sought to collect records.

The union is involved in the delivery of newspapers for The Post and The Daily News and as well as El Diario. One focus of the investigation was whether union leaders abused seniority rules to promote favored insiders, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

When asked about the law enforcement activity, Paul J. Browne, the New York Police Department’s chief spokesman, said, “The search warrants were executed today as part of an ongoing investigation.”

He declined to comment further.

(Source: NY Times)