Cleanup Continues at Miami Teachers Union

The temp. administrator of the United Teachers of Dade has agreed to sell its huge HQ to help pay off the millions in debt incurred on the union’s behalf by its convicted ex-chief, Pat Tornillo.  Current director Mark Richard announced the sale of the bldg. to Millennium Developers earlier this month.  Meanwhile, a panel of […]

Trial of Cap Consultants Exec & Union Pension Trustees Continues in Ore.

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for now-defunct Capital Consultants salesman Dean Kirkland began dueling in federal court on April 21.  Leading the case against Kirkland, Ore. Asst. U.S. Attny Neil Evans presented evidence that in 1999, union pension trustees were uncomfortable with their funds being moved into the investment firm that eventually collapsed in 2000.  Evans […]

Another Guilty Plea in UTU Bribery Case

On March 10, in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Sou. Dist. of Texas, John Rookard, a special asst. and project coordinator to Byron Boyd, president of the United Transportation Union, pled guilty to one count of labor racketeering conspiracy.  Rookard and Boyd admitted to soliciting and collecting thousands of dollars in cash from attorneys […]

Extortion of Union Charges against Genovese Clan Thrown out

Sr. U.S. Dist. Judge Leo Glasser (E.D.N.Y., Reagan) has dismissed charges that the Genovese crime family committed extortion against the Intl. Longshoremen’s Assn. (ILA) by exercising control over its elected officials. Glasser issued his ruling in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Feb. 26 decision in Scheidler v. Natl. Org. of Women(NOW).  The High Ct. […]

More Sentences Announced in Multi-Million Dollar Racketeering Scheme in NYC

The U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards announced the following sentences in the $6 million racketeering case against 26 bosses and members of the Intl Union of Elevator Constructors Local One. All seven were indicted on February 5, 2002 for conspiracy, false pension statements, money laundering conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful labor payments following a joint […]

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