NJ Local Bosses Accused of Gross Nepotism
Some of the highest-paying jobs at Local 734 of the Laborers Intl. Union of N. America -- which represents thousands of workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania -- had little to do with digging ditches....
View ArticleEx-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...
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