Boss Embezzled $18,000 from North Dakota Local
The ex-secretary-treasurer of the Communications Workers of Am. Local 14749 in Grand Forks, N.D., Steven C. Rude, pled guilty Jun. 2 to embezzling about $18,000 from union coffers. The boss was...
View ArticleProbe of Boston Local Reportedly Expands
Expanding the federal shakedown probe into Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters Local 25 in Boston, investigators are reportedly now probing allegations that Local 25 president George W. Cashman nixed a plan to...
View ArticleNortheast Ohio Boss Charged with $21,600 Embezzlement
Stephen Hanlon, ex-financial secretary of United Steelworkers of Am. Local 01-4564-S in Girard, Ohio, was charged Nov. 2 with embezzling $21,657 in union funds. [DOL 11/2/01]Californian Gets only...
View ArticleUnion Fund Manager Charged
Federal prosecutors in Boston and Chicago announced today that George Philipps, president of a N.Y. investment consulting firm, Pension Fund Evaluations, Inc., was charged Dec. 18 in a one count...
View ArticleTenn. Stagehand Boss Admits Theft for Friend
Tony Evans, ex-Fin. Secy.-Treasurer of IATSE Local 197 in Knoxville, Tenn., pled guilty on Aug. 14 to embezzling $16,319 for himself and his friend. According to the plea agreement, Evans has fully...
View ArticleExpelled Buffalo Govt. Union Chief now "Cleaning Up" Stage Union
Three years after the local govt. union expelled its president, that same man now heads the local stagehands union after dissidents ousted its frmr. president on charges of favoritism in job...
View ArticleEx-SD Treas. Indicted for Embezzlement
On Oct. 22, in the U.S. Dist. Ct .for South Dakota, Jo Ann Vaughn, frmr. treasurer of the Intl. Alliance Theatrical, Stage & Picture Operators Local 220, was indicted on one count of causing a...
View ArticleBattle Continues over Reform of Buffalo Stage Union
Trustee John Scardino says that his work is done reforming Local 10 of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees in Buffalo, NY, with a faction of part-time workers gaining more freedom to...
View Article9 Chicago Unionists & Official Charged with Arson
Seven members and two prospective members of a union local in Chicago that represents motion picture projectionists were indicted for allegedly waging a multi-state campaign of violence, vandalism and...
View ArticleChicago Projectionists Plead Guilty to Arson
Six members of a Chicago film projectionists union have pled guilty to arson, with the lead defendant set to go on trial on Mar. 1. All nine were either members or prospective members of the Motion...
View ArticleChicago Union Boss Vandal Escapes Arson Conviction
A federal jury convicted Albin Brenkus of obstructing justice on March 5, but acquitted him of arson, along with 2 other members of Local 110 of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees...
View ArticleChicago Boss Gets Heavy Sentence for Obstruction
U.S. Dist. Judge Suzanne B. Conlon (N.D. IL, Reagan) slapped a 6-1/2 yr. prison sentence on Albin Brenkus on May 3. Brenkus was convicted on March 5 for his part in a multi-state campaign of violence,...
View ArticleLas Vegas Officials & Intl. Trade Corruption Charges
Two yrs. after the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees took over its Las Vegas affiliate, officials in the union's NYC HQ continue to defend their takeover as necessary to repair a "complete...
View ArticleWisconsin Ex-Local Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Carl White’s income wasn’t much, but he had the wrong idea about how to supplement it. White, treasurer of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 251, pleaded guilty on January 29...
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