Dem Congressional Candidate Says He Pays His Workers Below Minimum Wage

Exclusive: Congressional candidate was accused of stiffing workers of OT in Williamsburg eatery (The New York Daily News)

Aaron Woolf, a part-time Upper East Sider who is running for Congress upstate, wants to raise the minimum wage — but he didn't always pay it to employees at a Brooklyn eatery he owns, legal filings show.

Woolf, a Democrat, is running in the 21st congressional district in northern New York, where he also has a home, against Elise Stefanik, a former aide to President George W. Bush, to replace retiring Democrat Rep. Bill Owens. The race offers Republicans one of their few chances to gain a House seat in the northeast.

Woolf, 50, touts his role as a socially conscious documentary film maker. His campaign also cites his work “championing small business" as the proprietor of Urban Rustic, a Williamsburg market and eatery.