Did UNITE HERE’s Support for Illegal Immigration Help Biden Win Nevada?

When it comes to open borders enthusiasm, few labor organizations are the match of the Las Vegas-based UNITE HERE Local 226. Representing around 60,000 hotel-casino and other employees in Las Vegas and Reno, the union for years has promoted illegal immigration as a means of building membership and bargaining power. That advocacy just might have […]

New Jersey AFSCME Treasurer’s Daughter Pleads Guilty to Theft

Jennifer Rogers played a supporting role, but it was enough for prosecutors to secure a guilty plea. Last Tuesday, December 1, Rogers, the daughter of Linda Rogers, former secretary-treasurer of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2254, pleaded guilty by videoconference in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to […]

Machinists Secretary in Maryland Pleads Guilty to $300K Theft

For a few years, Sarah Geddes Holmes used her union like a personal bank. She now might be facing a few years in prison. Last Thursday, December 3, Holmes, former secretary-treasurer of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 24, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to embezzling nearly […]

What Does the Constitution Mean to Amazon?

This opinion article by NLPC’s Carl Horowitz appeared on Townhall.com: Of all the ways that a Biden presidency and its radical apparatchiks could “reset” America’s priorities, none would be as lethal as an overhaul or outright repeal of the Constitution. Such an event seems unlikely for now. But should it materialize, Amazon will have enabled it. How […]

On Tax Return, Group Did Not Disclose Payments to Husband of VA Official

As we noted recently, it looks like “critics” of for-profit colleges are up to their old tricks. A career Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucrat, Charmain Bogue, failed to disclose payments to her husband by an special interest group that was pushing her to block veterans from using their G.I. Bill benefits at the school that they […]

President, Secretary of Maryland AFSCME Local Indicted for Thefts

On November 2, Tyrone Johnson and Dorothy Jordan, respectively, former president and former secretary-treasurer of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3374, were indicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on two charges each of stealing funds from the Baltimore union. Johnson allegedly stole between $100 and $1,500; Jordan allegedly embezzled […]

IBEW President in Arkansas Sentenced for Embezzlement

On November 13, Michael Johnson, former president and business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1658, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas to five years of probation, with the first six months to be spent on a monitored curfew, for embezzling $9,317 in funds from the Pine […]

Transit Union Secretary in New Jersey Sentenced for Embezzlement

On November 17, Angel Luis Garcia, former financial secretary of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1614, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to a year of home confinement, plus three years of supervised release, for embezzling around $117,000 from the union, based in Dover (Morris County), N.J. He also was […]

Indiana Iron Workers Boss Sentenced Under Hobbs Act for Extortion, Violence

Jeffrey Veach may see himself as “old school,” but he’s about to get a new kind of education. On September 23, Veach, former president of the Portage, Ind.-based International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Local 395, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to 42 months […]

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