Ex-NJ Union Boss Pleads Guilty to Stealing over $1m
A former Jersey City Planning Board member and local union official pled guilty on Jan. 7 to conspiring to embezzle more than $1 million from the union to support his luxurious lifestyle that included...
View ArticleTakeover of NYC Local Looms amid Financial Charges
Officials of the country's biggest behind-the-scenes show business union are moving to take over a New York local amid corruption allegations, the Local's chief said on Jan. 11. Investigators from the...
View ArticleLandmark Sues Fla., N.J. Unions for Tax Violations
On Jan. 12, the Landmark Legal Foundation filed complaints with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) asking the Agency to investigate the refusal of two state affiliates of the National Education...
View ArticleNY Teacher Aide Charged with Grand Larceny
The union boss representing a group of Port Washington, NY, teachers' aides stole more than $45,000 from the organization's bank accounts, NassauCounty authorities said on Jan. 5. Angela Prudente, 51,...
View ArticleIll. Members Sues Local Chief & Hoffa
On Dec. 31, a member of Local 330 of the Intl. Brotherhood of Teamsters in Elgin, Ill. filed an 8-count lawsuit against the Local president and other officers. Representing the employee is attny. J....
View ArticleRI Laborers Offices Searched as part of Drug Smuggling Investigation
R.I. state and federal agents arrested a capo in the Patriarca crime family on Jan. 20 and also searched offices of the Laborers' International Union in Providence, along with a Cranston concrete...
View Article2 Buffalo-Area Goons Convicted of Extortion
Two members of Laborers Local 91 in Niagara Falls were convicted of attempted extortion on Jan. 21 after a trial in federal court. A jury convicted Steven Markle and Anthony Cerrone of involvement in...
View ArticleEx- Ofc. Secy Admits Embezzlement in Iowa Federal Court
The ex-office secy. for Local 3 of the Bricklayers Intl. Union pled guilty on Dec. 23 to embezzling over $200,000. Amanda Kemmer entered her plea in the U.S. Dist. Court for the Sou. Dist. of IA. She...
View ArticleFrmr. NYC Union Boss Admits Stealing Funds to Buy Gifts for Castro
A former exec. of the agency that collects royalties for the American Federation of Musicians admitted on Jan. 17 that he stole $200,000 to buy jewelry, a trip to Cuba and expensive champagne for Fidel...
View ArticleUnion Racketeer Sentenced in NY Fed. Court
Amid little fanfare, one of New York's most powerful labor racketeers was packed off to an upstate federal prison earlier in Jan. to begin a six-and-a-half-year sentence for bribery and conspiracy,...
View ArticleFrmr Pres. Admits Embezzlement in Del. Fed. Court
On January 20, in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, Gary Miller, former president of Local 2372, United Auto Workers, pled guilty to the embezzlement of union funds in excess of $5,000. Miller was...
View ArticleFrmr. Iowa Secy.-Treasurer Charged with Embezzlement
A Dubuque postal union official has been charged with embezzlement and theft of labor union assets. Debra Herrig, 47, was charged Feb. 7 in the U.S. Dist. Court in Cedar Rapids. The U.S. attorney's...
View ArticleEx-Union Secy. Escapes Jail Time in Ore. Fed. Court
A former carpenters' union secretary from Lebanon is facing fines, probation and mandatory community service after pleading guilty to stealing from her local chapter. Joy Torrance has pled guilty in...
View ArticleExtortion Charges Reinstated Against Mich. Bosses
Three federal judges unanimously reinstated criminal charges Feb. 8 against two Pontiac officials of the United Auto Workers accused of prolonging an 87-day strike at a General Motors Corp. truck plant...
View ArticleUpper NY Union Member Admits Lying in Racketeering Case
A member of Local 91 of the laborers Intl Union of N. Amer. has admitted that he lied to a federal grand jury looking into charges of extortion and racketeering in 2001, reports David Staba of the...
View ArticleEx-NY Bus. Agent Indicted for Nepotism
A former showbiz-union boss was indicted on fraud charges on Feb. 14 for allegedly trying to sell posh real estate bought with his members' dues to his brother and his brother's girlfriend at...
View ArticleEx-Secy.-Treasurer Admits Theft in Neb. Fed. Court
On February 3, 2005, in the United States District Court for Nebraska, Terry L. Gloe, former secretary-treasurer for Local 11, American Postal Workers Union, pled guilty to a one count information...
View ArticleHoffa Fires his "Chief of Staff"
Carlow Scalf, a former Detroit Teamsters boss and former top aide to Intl. president James P. Hoffa the past six years, has been fired amid allegations that he improperly received a housing allowance...
View ArticleEx-Dem Party Boss Charged with Bankrupting NJ Union
Charles Cart, the former Democratic Party boss for SussexCounty, appeared in federal court on March 22 and pled not guilty to allegations of embezzlement and money laundering that bankrupted a local...
View ArticleCalif. Unions Find Loophole through Landrum-Griffin
Los Angeles union chief Miguel Contreras and other union officials have tapped Hollywood studios, energy companies and other large corporations for hefty donations to finance its activities over the...
View ArticleFrmr. Ohio Union Employee Charged in Local Court
On March 3, in the Court of Common Pleas, FranklinCounty (Ohio), an indictment was filed against Aunalie Parsons, former employee of the Ohio Nurses Association, charging her with one count of theft of...
View ArticleReputed Mobster Joins 3 Top Bosses as Racketeering Defendant
A reputed Genovese mob captain from New Jersey has joined three top Longshoremen union bosses as a co-defendant in a federal racketeering indictment that claims the ILA is under Mafia influence,...
View ArticleEx-Treasurer Admits Embezzlement in Del. Fed. Court
On February 17, in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, Julie Messick, the former treasurer of Local 2001, United Bhd. of Carpenters, entered a guilty plea by plea agreement to one count of a...
View ArticleEx-Treasurer Admits Embezzlement in Minn. Fed. Court
On March 23, in the U.S. District Court for Minnesota, Dana Lockwood, former treasurer of Local 49, the Intl. Assn. of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers, pled guilty to a one-count...
View ArticleFed. Judge Throws out Union Trustees of NJ Benefit Fund
A federal judge has removed the administrator and two trustees of a New Jersey union's benefit funds that are now the focus of an ongoing federal corruption probe. Citing serious questions about...
View ArticleRI Mobster Pleads in Case where LIUNA Offices were Searched
A high-ranking mobster in the Patriarca crime family and laborers union member has agreed to plead guilty to cocaine trafficking charges stemming from his arrest in an FBI sting operation two months...
View ArticleStockbroker Sentenced for Stealing from Union Investments
A federal judge in Albany, N.Y. has sentenced a stockbroker on April 12 for stealing more than $400,000 from a union employee benefit fund. U.S. Senior District Judge Thomas McAvoy ordered Anthony...
View ArticleIBT Report Attempts to Discredit Ex-Watchdog Stier
The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained a draft of an internal Teamster report that attempts to discredit the union's former ethics watchdog, who charged the union hierarchy with squelching his efforts to...
View ArticleFormer Buffalo, N.Y. Musicians Union Head Pleads Guilty
Depression can strike anyone. But when Mark R. Jones was afflicted, his response was to rip off his union. On July 26, Jones pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to embezzling $74,000 from local and...
View ArticleElected DC Chief Promises Reform: Results Challenged
George Parker, newly elected president of the Washington Teachers Union, promised to shed the American Federation of Teachers affiliate's association with corruption, and to take the lead in improving...
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