Soviets Pile Up Most N.Y. Parking Tickets
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NEW YORK — For the second straight year, diplomats from the Soviet Union accumulated more city parking violations than representatives from any other country, piling up 7,612 tickets for an estimated $352,720 in fines, a report said Sunday.
Altogether, police issued 53,341 tickets with fines totaling $2 billion to cars registered to the city’s 246 consulates and United Nations’ missions, the Daily News reported in its fourth annual survey.
The city will never see one penny, because the scofflaws invoke diplomatic immunity and the fines are never paid.
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