Calif. 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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