NURSES / TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES
Minnesota Consultant Guilty of Fraud
Union consultant, Elliot M. Cohn of Coral Springs, Fla., admitted Feb.
8 to bilking two Minn. unions out of almost $25,000 in fraudulent expenses.
The president of a labor negotiating firm pled guilty to mail fraud during
a hearing in Minneapolis before U.S. Dis. Judge Michael Davis. Cohn said
that from 1996-98, he billed $22,000 in phony airfare expenses to the Minn.
Licensed Practical Nurses Ass'n and also manipulated the compensation he
drew from the Tech. Employees Ass'n of Minn. He paid $106,476 in restitution
to the two unions during the hearing. [Star Trib. (Minneapolis) 3/9/01]
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