The Harborview Ledger

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Harbor pilots billed 14,000 overtime hours last year. The port never checked.

Timesheets obtained through a records request show the same shifts claimed twice.

The Harborview Port Authority paid its harbor pilots for more than 14,000 hours of overtime last year, according to timesheets the Ledger obtained through a public records request.

Nobody at the authority compared those hours with the ship logs that record when a pilot actually boarded a vessel.

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