Union Boss Harold Daggett and Bentley’s 7,000-square-foot mansion spotted amid pay dispute

Harold Daggett, the labor leader who has vowed to “cripple” the U.S. economy if the ports don’t ban automation and significantly increase dockworkers’ wages, had a Bentley convertible parked outside his sprawling New Jersey mansion this week, according to exclusive photos obtained by The Post.

Drone photos taken Tuesday show the British luxury car parked with its trunk outside what appears to be a five-car garage, which is connected to his 7,000-square-foot Tudor-style home by a covered skybridge.

Located on a 10-acre estate in Sparta, a wooded area 50 miles west of New York City, the sprawling two-story mansion wraps around a spacious backyard patio with an amoeba-shaped pool.

Next to what appears to be a large stone pizza oven is a covered outdoor bar.

A gate on the other side of the patio leads to what appears to be a free-standing sauna, surrounded by a wide wooden terrace. The estate is surrounded on all sides by a large forest area.

The luxury property is located in a scenic part of New Jersey, near the Delaware Water Gap, where five-bedroom homes can be purchased for up to $6 million, according to Zillow.

A real estate agent who spoke to The Post said Daggett put the four-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bathroom estate on the market in 2004 with an initial listing price of $3.1 million, which he later reduced to $2.9 million . He eventually took it off the market.

Daggett, who has previously fought federal charges of mob connections, became president of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 2011. This position comes with a salary of $728,000 per year, along with an additional $173,000 from ILA-Local 1804-1.

According to The Wall Street Journal, he was accused in 2005 of steering union benefits contracts to companies that gave kickbacks to organized crime during a trial in Brooklyn.

That same year, Daggett took the stand after federal prosecutors charged him and two others with racketeering.

He portrayed himself as a target of the Mafia, despite testimony from a former Mafia member who claimed Daggett was a member of the Genovese crime family, The New York Times reported.

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