Laverdia Ann Brockman

Ex-WI Secy.-Treas. Sentenced for $60K Theft

Submitted by David Kendrick on Mon, 09/16/2002 - 00:00

On September 6, 2002, in the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the East. Dist. of Wisc., David Dobry, former Secy.-Treas. of Boilermakers Lodge 177, was sentenced to five months imprisonment followed by five months of home detention followed by three years of supervision. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $61,510. He pled guilty to embezzling $61,510 in union funds on July 2, 2002, following an investigation by the Milwaukee branch of the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards. [DOL OLMS 9/12/02]

Ullico Board on Defensive; Fashions an "Investigation"

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 05/13/2002 - 00:00

The scandal-scarred board of Ullico, Inc., appointed labor-friendly ex-Ill. Gov. James R. Thompson (R) Apr. 29 to "review" the insider trading scheme that allowed some directors of the union-dominated insurance company to make hundreds of thousands in tainted profits. To see just how labor-friendly, visit http://www.ipsn.org/ullico/thompson_ullico.htm, for a picture from when Thompson was governor. It shows Thompson with Robert A. Georgine, now the Ullico president, who helped select Thompson for the lucrative investigatory job and who Thompson is supposed to be investigating. Also pictured is Angelo Fosco. The deceased Fosco was president, as was his father, of the Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am from 1975-1993. The government's draft 1994 racketeering suit that led to a quasi-government takeover of LIUNA, stated that Fosco "was an associate of the Chicago [La Costa Nostra] family" and accused him of racketeering acts related to extortion of LIUNA members. Also in the picture is deceased plumbers and AFL-CIO boss Edward Brabec.

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