The master rigger on trial in the deadly crane collapse that killed seven people is a “fall guy” for a haphazard government investigation into the deadly incident, his lawyer said yesterday.

NEW YORK – A rigger who worked on a massive construction crane that collapsed and killed seven people has been stripped of his licenses after an administrative judge said his sloppy work was to ...

A master rigger was acquitted of all charges Thursday in the deaths of seven people in a 2008 East Side crane collapse that outraged the city and exposed widespread Buildings Department corruption.

Arthur Aidala, the lawyer for William Rapetti, the master rigger who set up the crane and now is charged with seven counts of manslaughter, called the tape prejudicial and said it would incite ...

The master rigger of a 200-ft-high tower crane that collapsed at a midtown Manhattan construction site last March, killing seven workers and civilians, was indicted Jan. 5 on multiple charges of ...

The concrete company in charge of the crane work obtained six of the straps for rigger William Rapetti, but three of them were found in a toolshed the day after the crane toppled onto a midtown ...

Since the collapse, Rapetti has worked running the elevators that take workers up and down cranes, Aidala said. It's unclear whether he will return to his work as a master rigger, he said.