Helen Greene, the No. 2 official in the Am. Fed’n of State, County & Mun. Employees’ Dist. Council 37 in N.Y.C., was indicted Apr. 25 on grand larceny charges, including one alleging that she charged $794 on her union credit card to pay for the rehearsal dinner for her son’s wedding. Manhattan Dist. Atty. Robert […]
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Carpenters Union Bolt AFL-CIO
In a sharp slap in the face to AFL-CIO bosses John J. Sweeney and Richard L. Trumka the United Bhd. of Carpenters pulled out of the federation on Mar. 29. A continued affiliation with AFL-CIO not only was a distraction for UBC, said UBC boss Douglas J. McCarron, but an impediment. McCarron said UBC needs […]
Ohio Local Settles DOL Suit with New Election
Int’l Union of Electronic Workers Local 801 in Moraine, Ohio, has agreed to hold a new election for officers under the supervision of the Dep’t of Labor in Nov. The agreement, approved Jan. 23 by U.S. Dist. Chief Judge Walter H. Rice, was reached in a lawsuit filed by DOL in Sept. 1999 accusing Local […]
Boss Wilhelm Defends Chicago Trusteeship
Just before a hearing focusing on the trusteeship imposed on Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Int’l Union Local 1 in Chicago, HERE boss John Wilhelm justified his actions. In a Mar. 13 statement, Wilhelm alleged financial and managerial deficiencies with Local 1, which for decades had been HERE’s flagship. Wilhelm pointed to a sharp decline […]
Coia Suspended From Law Practice in Rhode Island
Arthur A. Coia, ex-boss of the Laborers’ Int’l Union of N. Am., was suspended from the practice of law for two years by the Rhode Island Supreme Court in an opinion dated Nov. 20 because he engaged in “a serious crime involving dishonesty.” The court declined to issue a lesser penalty that Coia requested–a public […]
Ex-Ohio AFSCME Boss Indicted for Theft
James R. English, ex-president of Am. Fed’n of State, County & Mun. Employees Local 3895 in Lake County, Ohio, was indicted Sept. 8 on theft charges of cashing checks totaling $1,900 at without proper authorization in Feb. 2000. The local has since disbanded and its corrections officers are now members of the Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent […]
Jury Convicts Boxing Boss in New Jersey
On Aug. 17, a federal jury in N.J. found Robert “Bob” Lee, Sr., ex-boss and founder of the Int’l Boxing Fed’n, guilty on six counts of union corruption. He faces 37 to 46 months in jail for convictions on three counts of racketeering, two counts of tax evasion and one count of money laundering. U.S. […]
Pension Funds Sued for Self-Dealing
Three retired carpenters — Horacio Grana, Phillip R. Helsius, and Walter J. Sprenger — filed a suit Jan. 14 seeking the removal of penion plan directors and advisors for alleged self-dealing and other ERISA violations. The federal suit charged that Douglas McCarron, UBC president, and other directors of the Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for S. […]
Las Vegas Boss under Attack
Unidentified dissident members of the Clark County Education Ass’n in Nevada have recently circulated bulletins under the name the Committee to Impeach Sue Strand. Strand is the top boss of CCEA. They accuse Strand of greed and utter incompetence. One bulletin focused on Strand’s apparent indifference to union corruption. It quotes some of her published […]
New Jersey Bosses Indicted for Kickbacks
A federal indictment unsealed Oct. 20 charges a father and son who run a local of a Nat’l Union of Healthcare & Hosp. Employees with taking $200,000 in kickbacks from a contractor hired to renovate the union’s headquarters in Newark. Victor Garcia, president of NUHHE Dist. 1199J and his son, Victor Garcia, Jr., the assistant […]