CARPENTERS (UBC)
Ousted President Sentenced to 4 years
Frederick Devine, the ousted president of the NY City District Council
of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, was sent to prison Aug. 17 for
up to 4 years for using union dues to fund a "lavish lifestyle." The union
boss squandered $175,000 in union funds on golf trips, car rentals and
expensive dinners. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Devine
took union bosses and his family to Florida for weeks around the annual
5-day AFL-CIO winter conferences in Miami. He splurged on luxury hotels
and sometimes treated his wife and his girlfriend to the same trip. Devine
charged the junkets to UBC's operating fund. [NY Post 8/18/98]
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