LABORERS (LIUNA)
Chicago Boss Sentenced to 33 Months for $470,000 Theft
U.S. Dist. Judge Matthew F. Kennelly (N.D. Ill., Clinton) sentenced
Frank B. Zeuberis, ex-boss of Laborers' Int'l
Union of N. Am. Local 5 in Chicago Hts. Nov. 9 to 33 months in prison for
embezzling more than $470,000 in union funds for himself, his wife, and
a reputed mob lieutenant, James A. DiForti,
he installed in a top local office. Kennelly also ordered the Ind. resident
to pay restitution of $473,106. As president and business manager of Local
5, Zeuberis gave himself, his wife, and DiForti unauthorized and fraudulent
salary increases, bonuses, and vacation. In pleading guilty to a federal
racketeering charge in June, Zeuberis also admitted he solicited $5,000
to appoint a union member as a business agent. His wife was not charged.
DiForti died last year. [Chi. Trib. 11/11/01]
ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS (IUEC)
New Details on New York Witness Tampering Case
As reported in the last the UCU, Matthew J.
Downey, lead operator for Int'l Union of Elevator
Constructors Local 1 in N.Y.C., was indicted Oct. 30 for witness tampering
and obstruction of justice. The case is before U.S. Dist. Judge David G.
Trager (E.D.N.Y., Clinton). The U.S. Atty.'s Office for the E.D.N.Y.
has provided the UCU with an July 25 affidavit of FBI Special Agent Joseph
Bowen written in support of an application for an arrest warrant. It outlines
troubling details on these alleged criminal acts.
According to the affidavit, Downey and other members and representatives of Local 1 have been submitting falsified time sheets to building contractors, which claim either inflated hours or hours for individuals who did not work at the job sites at all. Further, the Dep't of Labor has reportedly found dozens of instances of double-dipping: individuals being paid for supposedly being at two different job sites at the exact same time.The federal probe has allegedly documented more than $2 million from the falsified hours that has been regularly transmitted to accounts controlled by Downey starting about 1996. The funds have reportedly been transferred in cash and through a bank account in the name of a fictitious partnership, "Mattlynn."
Between Apr. 2000 and Apr. 2001, the FBI's Cooperating Witness 1 (CW1) secretly recorded a conversation with Downey. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a supposed grand jury subpoena that CW1 received to corroborate Downey's involvement in the alleged no-show jobs scheme. CW1 asked Downey for advice on what to tell the grand fury, and Downey allegedly recited, numerous times, what a rehearsed version of the facts, suggesting that CW1 say that 1) he had given Downey permission to sign his checks, and 2) Downey gave CW1 the entire proceeds of the checks. CW1 reminded Downey that he had not given all of the check proceeds to CW1. Downey reportedly replied, "Yeah, I know what the deal was, but they don't!" and added, "We know the deal, you know the deal, and so on and so forth. What do you feel comfortable with and what do you think is lying? If a guy says to you, 'Did you give Downey permission to cash your check?' 'Absolutely, he cashed my check.' 'Why?' 'Saved me from going to the bank, saved me from going to the bar.'" Bowen described this statement as "facial absurdity" and contrary to CW1's account. Further, after allegedly suggesting that CW1 lie to the grand jury, Downey reportedly said that "I gotta be very careful, here" because "if I ever get caught in a conversation like, something like that, they got it on tape, they get me for . . . , uh, obstruction of justice."
The federal probe has reportedly revealed that the benefits to operators, like CW1, who allowed their names to be used for inflated or no-show hours varied by person and situation. Sometimes, Downey would allegedly get the entire pay and the operator would get the corresponding pension and annuity benefits. Other times, Downey would allegedly return a portion of the money in cash to the particular operator involved. Still other times, the operator would get the paycheck, and allegedly kick back part or all of it either directly to Downey or through one of his associates.
Similarly, several contractors issued numerous paychecks for hours that CW2 did not work, with the checks for those hours going to Downey. According to CW2, Downey has told him, in the context of this probe, that if he were ever asked by investigators or a grand jury about no-show hours, CW2 should always maintain that he was actually present at the job sites, and that he gave Downey permission to sign CW2's name to the back of the checks. CW2 told Bowen that had he ever tried to say anything like that, it would have been an outright lie.
CW1 and CW2 were apparently just examples, for Bowen noted: "Because the purpose of this affidavit is merely to establish probable cause, I have not set forth all of the facts and circumstances of which I am aware." [USAO E.D.N.Y. 11/14/01]
SERVICE EMPLOYEES (SEIU)
New York Local Probed for Election Law Violations
Service Employees Int'l Union Local 32B-32J
in N.Y.C. is being investigated for possible violations of a city campaign
finance law in its political action efforts. A subpoena was served
Nov. 13 on Local 32B-32J by the office of Manhattan Dist. Atty. Robert
M. Morgenthau. Local president Michael Fishman said officials were asked
to provide information related to the local's "broad-based political action
program" to support candidates in recently concluded city elections.
The investigation was apparently prompted by dissident Paul Pamias's Oct. 12 letter to Morgenthau's office. As previously reported in the UCU, Pamias told Morgenthau that the local was violating city law by "turning the union hall into a campaign headquarters" and compelling staff members to donate personal and vacation days to work on the losing mayoral campaign of city Public Advocate Mark Green (D), whose candidacy the local had endorsed.
"All the unions do this," Pamias said, suggesting that the case could have broader implications for other unions. "But that doesn't mean it's legal." The alleged practices constitute violations of the city's strict campaign finance law, as well as falsification of business records, he contended. [BNA 11/15/01]
LABOR LAW REFORM / UNION DUES
NLPC'S Boehm Testifies on Beck Legislation
"If First Amendment rights and deterring financial corruption are not
worker rights worth protecting with legislation, what are?" asked Nat'l
Legal & Pol'y Ctr. Chairman Ken Boehm in his Nov. 14 testimony before
the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education
& the Workforce. Boehm was one several panelists asked to discuss how
Congress, the Dep't of Labor, and the Nat'l Labor Relations Board could
better enforce employees Beck rights: the right to refrain from paying
for unions' non-core activities such as politics. Boehm illustrated how
strengthening existing union corruption statutes would help impose more
accountability on unions to refund accurate amounts to employees under
the 1988 Supreme Court's CWA v. Beck decision. Boehm's
testimony is available at http://www.nlpc.org/olap/congress/011114.
Subcommittee Chairman Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) grilled NLRB Gen. Counsel Arthur F. Rosenfeld (R) about NLRB's dismal performance on Beck issues. Norwood vowed to step up oversight over NLRB on Beck issues and intends to crusade for legislation to improve enforcement of Beck.
TEACHERS (NEA) / UNION DUES
Washington Union Must Repay $180,000 to Teachers
Thurston County (Wash.) Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor clarified a
ruling Nov. 15 granting a state-sought injunction against the Wash.
Educ. Ass'n to end the union's practice of using funds from non-members
for election expenditures. The injunction requires WEA officials to refund
$47 by Jan. 15 to approximately 4,000 teachers who pay fees to the union.
WEA is also be required to document its election-affecting contributions
and expenditures from general funds and must provide an advance reduction
to non-members in the future. WEA sought a "memorandum of understanding,"
but the Tabor agreed with the state that a permanent injunction was necessary
to assure that future violations could be addressed by contempt of court
charges.
The ruling is the second part of a decision that Tabor issued in Aug. in which he fined WEA $200,000 for violating campaign finance disclosure laws, plus $200,000 in punitive damages for WEA's intentional violation of the state law. WEA will also be required to pay legal expenses for the state, estimated to be over $100,000.
WEA's practice of using general funds and agency fees for election-affecting activity prompted the Evergreen Freedom Fdn. to file a complaint with the Wash. Atty. Gen. in Aug. 2000. The state investigated the claim and brought charges in a trial last May.
Tabor also issued his final conclusions about the facts of the case calling the WEA's actions "intentional violations of [state law]." He blasted WEA for its actions saying "irreparable harm will result if the WEA continues to use agency fees without...authorization." Along with refunding teachers' fees, WEA must track expenditures that effect elections including political advertising, contributions, in-kind contributions, independent expenditures, political communications to teachers and other expenses associated with election-affecting activities.
In reference to the union practice of using fee payer money and WEA's general fund for election activity the ruling says, "There was a commingling of funds, the procedure to get agency fee payer permission to use funds for political purposes was not used."
"I am pleased that WEA's silent fleecing of 4,000 educators will no longer remain hidden and that the union will be forced to honor these educators' rights," said EFF's Jami Lund.
Separately, EFF is helping teachers in a class action suit seeking to gain repayment for nonmembers whose funds were wrongfully used in the prior five years. [EFF 11/15/01]
COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS (CWA)
Denver Boss Charged on 40 Counts (information added March 7,
2002)
Bobby R. Putnam, ex-secretary-treasurer of Communications Workers of
Am. Local 14708 (a.k.a., Denver Mailers Union No. 8) in Denver, was charged
Oct. 31 in a 40-count indictment with embezzling $7,808.26 and falsifying
union records. The case has been assigned to U.S. Dist. Chief Judge
Lewis T. Babcock (D. Colo., Reagan).
According to the indictment, Putnam engaged in a multi-step check scheme to steal $1,913.28 between Dec. 1996 and Sept. 1997. He allegedly 1) wrote nine union checks to nine union members, 2) endorsed these checks without the nine members' knowledge or permission, 3) deposited these checks back into the local's checking account, and 4) then took the cash from the local's funds for his own use and benefit. He was charged with nine counts of union embezzlement. He was also charged with nine counts of union records falsification because for each of these nine checks, Putnam willfully made false entries in union records relating to these purported disbursements and their purported purpose. The alleged falsifications included: "1 Day lost time," "Sick Pay from Union 60 Days $4.00," and "91 Days $4.00 day, Out Feb.-Aug. 97 Auto Accident."
Additionally, for eleven months, Nov. 1996 to Sept. 1997, Putnam allegedly collected union dues and fees from members but took a portion of these dues and fees for his own use without authorization. Allegedly, this scheme resulted in a $5,894.98 embezzlement, and Putnam was indicted on eleven additional counts of union embezzlement. Again, he was also indicted on eleven additional counts of union records falsification relating to this dues scheme. [DOL 10/31/01; DOJ 12/18/01]
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (CSEA)
Second Albany Boss Admits Theft
Daniel Vallee, ex-boss of Civil Service Employees
Ass'n Local 316 in Albany, pled guilty Nov. 9 before U.S. Dist. Judge
Thomas J. McAvoy (N.D.N.Y., Reagan) to embezzling $19,300.09 in union funds.
Vallee admitted that from May 1988 until Jan. 2000 he wrote checks to himself
drawn on the local's account. As president, Vallee was one of two people
authorized to sign the checks. The other person, Nancy
Groome, ex-secretary-treasurer of the local, cosigned some of the checks
but Vallee admitted he forged her name on a majority of them. In some instances,
Vallee also received excess reimbursements and kept the funds. He spent
the embezzled funds on personal expenses such as his mortgage, car repairs,
credit card bills, and gifts for others.
In July, Groome pled guilty to embezzling nearly $111,476.48 in union funds herself. She wrote 310 unauthorized checks to herself and to vendors from union-related training trips she never took. McAvoy set sentencing for Mar. 11 for both embezzlers. In the plea, Vallee agreed to make restitution to the bonding firm that repaid the local and never to seek or hold a union office again. [USAO N.D.N.Y. 11/9/01; Times Union (Albany) 11/10/01]
LETTER CARRIERS (NALC)
Hawaiian Thief Avoids Prison Time
Confessed union embezzler Glenn A. Reys, Sr.,
was sentenced Nov. 5 to 5 years probation (including 6 months home detention)
and ordered to make restitution of $10,011. Reys ex-secretary-treasurer
of the Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers Branch 4644 in Kahului, Haw., pled
guilty May 14 to one count of embezzling $2,000 in union funds and one
count of filing a false annual report. He was indicted on 5 counts of embezzling
$5,000. The falsification charge result from his statement that the branch
did not pay its officers from 1995-97. [DOL 11/5, 5/14/01;
Pac. Employment Letter 5/01]
TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Mississippi Boss Allegedly Stole $2,400
On Nov. 6, Jessie McGee, ex-business agent for Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters
Local 891 in Jackson. Miss., was indicted on one count of embezzling $2,492
in union funds. [DOL 11/6/01]
AFL-CIO / TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Finally, Mary Jo White to Go
Eleven and a half months too late, Bill Clinton's U.S. Atty. for the
S.D.N.Y., Mary Jo White, will
resign at the end of the year. While earlier reports about her ousting
were reversed, the Dep't of Justice made her departure official on Nov.
15. She recently lost the important corruption case
against ex-Teamsters boss Ron Carey. Union corruption watchdog, the
Nat'l Legal & Pol'y Ctr. has repeated called for White's removal due
her poor handling of Teamsters money-laundering
scandal including her failure to bring charges against AFL-CIO
secretary-treasurer Richard L. Trumka for his alleged role in the scheme.
"Good riddance. Despite slam-dunk cases against Trumka and others, White
has repeatedly dropped the ball." said NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm. Unfortunately,
it's unlikely that White's missteps can be corrected by her successor because
the 5-year statutes of limitations have apparently run in this 1996 scandal.
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LABORERS (LIUNA) / BLASTERS (BMDRU) / BRICKLAYERS (BAC)
New York Brothers Admit to Mob and Union Payoffs
Guisseppe "Joseph" Scalamandre and his brother,
Fortunato "Fred" Scalamandre pled guilty Nov. 14 to conspiring to make
payoffs to the Luchese organized crime family and to the union boss of
three locals in N.Y.C area. The two construction company owners were charged
with conspiring between Jan. 1991 and Oct. 1998 to pay members of
the Luchese organized crime family, including the former acting boss, Alphonse
D'Arco, and former underboss, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, approximately $40,000
a year, in order to buy labor peace. They admitted agreeing to pay unidentified
bosses and employees of Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am. Local 66, Blasters,
Miners & Drill Runners Union Local 29, and Int'l Union of Bricklayers
& Allied Craftworkers Local 1 to avoid contributing to union benefit
funds and paying union dues on behalf of their employees, and to unlawfully
influence the bosses and employees in other union-related matters affecting
their companies.
Dep't of Labor Inspector Gen. Gordon S. Heddell said the case shows the government's "commitment to detect and combat the ongoing control of unions, union benefit funds, and construction contractors by organized crime and other labor racketeers in the New York metropolitan area."
The brothers also admitted to an approximately $1 million tax fraud scheme. They each face a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, $500,000 in fines, restitution and the payment of back taxes for 1991-98. They must also forfeit to the government $5,000,000, representing proceeds of their criminal conspiracy to payoff union bosses and Luchese members. Further, they consented to a court-appointed monitor to supervise their construction-related companies for the next five years. The two are principals of several major construction companies on Long Island, including Sea Crest Construction Corp., Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc., and Scalco Construction Corp. The monitor will oversee the daily activities of their companies and ensure that the Scalamandre no longer associate with organized crime. Because of the pending indictment, one Scalamandre firm was recently halted from working at the World Trade Center massacre site, where its trucks were carting off debris. U.S. Dist. Judge Jacob Mishler (E.D.N.Y., Eisenhower) scheduled sentencing for Jan. 18, 2002.
The Scalamandres' attorneys, Stanley Arkin and Charles Stillman, released a joint statement saying: "Faced with serious threats to their physical safety, the safety of their families, and the existence of their businesses, and in order to ensure labor peace, they ultimately agreed to make payments demanded by high-ranking members of an organized crime family. Although Joe and Fred recognized that their actions were unlawful...they dreaded having to make the payments and did so unwillingly ." The investigation is reportedly continuing. [USAO E.D.N.Y. 11/14/01, DOL-OIG 11/14/01; Newsday 11/15/01]
ALLIED-INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (PACE)
Wisconsin Boss Embezzled from Local and Bank
The UCU has obtained new information from the U.S. Attorneys' Office
in Milwaukee on previously reported union embezzlement. On Oct. 26, U.S.
Dist. Judge Charles N. Clevert, Jr., (E.D. Wis., Clinton) sentenced Shawn
D. Drake to 21 months in prison, 3 years probation, and ordered to
pay $21,376 in restitution. Drake was secretary-treasurer of the Paper,
Allied-Indus. Chemical & Energy Workers Int'l Union Local 736
in Green Bay from Oct. 1999 to Apr. 2000. Drake embezzled about $10,891
in union funds by issuing unauthorized checks to himself and embezzled
another $6,425 by converting to his own use 3 union dues checks that Drake's
employer had issued to the local. Further, Drake obtained $3,956 from his
bank by cashing yet another unauthorized union check which later bounced.
Drake was indicted on Feb. 14 and later pled guilty. Clevert enhanced
Drake's sentence because he had abused a position of trust in committing
these crimes.
U.S. Atty. James L. Santelle commented, "Shawn Drake was convicted of embezzling funds that belonged to his union and, in essence, to his fellow union members. He committed this offense by taking advantage of the position of trust that he occupied as the union treasure. He concealed his embezzlement by making false statements in union books and by issuing false financial reports to his fellow union members. Federal law specifically prohibits the embezzlement of union funds, and such crimes are zealously prosecuted in the Eastern District of Wisconsin." [USAO E.D. Wis. 11/15/01; DOL 10/26/01]
TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Alleged Associate of Boston Boss in Custody
Frank Rossi, a career criminal with close ties to embattled Boston
Teamsters boss George W. Cashman was arrested
on drug charges Nov. 9 and sources said the arrest could signal a major
break in the racketeering probe against the union boss. Rossi was just
released from a N.J. halfway house in Oct. on a different charge. The slightly
built and balding Rossi, dressed in a checkered, untucked button-down shirt,
jeans and sneakers, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on one count of
distributing cocaine after a wired informant tape recorded at least two
purchases from him in Nov. U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles B. Swartwood III
(D. Mass.) held Rossi without bail until a Nov. 14 probable cause hearing
as well as a hearing on his dangerousness and risk of flight.
Rossi was arrested in Woburn, Mass., following the investigation by a team of agents from the Drug Enforcement Admin. and the Dep't of Labor's Office of Labor Racketeering, as well by local police. While Rossi is being held on drug charges, it is his connections to Cashman that has piqued investigators' interest. Rossi has worked as a member of Local 25's movie crew, many of whose members are being probed for allegedly shaking down filmmakers, intimidating and threatening other set workers and padding overtime and expense sheets.
Allegedly, Rossi is an enforcer for Cashman both on and off sets. Rossi last worked on the set of "Cider House Rules," filmed in western Massachusetts, but union officials were forced to remove him after he allegedly severely beat his wife during the filming. Rossi also once worked as a salesman for Boston Sportswear, which used to supply T-shirts, polo shirts and other Local 25 emblazoned clothing to the local. IBT sources claim union members were forced to buy the items, especially if they worked on the movie crews.
Rossi was also allegedly named by former mob member-turned-government
witness Robert Luisi as one of the triggermen in the murder of Anthony
DiPrizio, whose frozen and bloodied corpse was found in a Charlestown snowbank
clad only in his underwear. Reportedly, Luisi, who pled guilty to racketeering
charges last year that included paying $7,500 for DiPrizio to be killed,
told investigators Rossi was one of the men he hired to do the execution.
Investigators reportedly asked Luisi if DiPrizio's killing had any connection
to the unsolved murder of Logan baggage
handler Susan Taraskiewicz, a Northwest Airlines superintendent who
was found stuffed in her trunk on Sept. 1992.
DiPrizio was once busted in Las Vegas on fraud and conspiracy charges after he and others ran up $420,000 in cash advances on credit cards stolen from Logan mail bags. Investigators believe Taraskiewicz may have been killed because she stumbled upon a similar scam. At least one man suspected in Taraskiewicz's murder, Joseph Nuzzo, was convicted of stealing credit cards.
Rossi has a lengthy rap sheet dating back to 1968. According to the complaint by DEA's Joseph W. Desmond and DOL's Stephen B. Mitchell, Rossi has been convicted of bank robbery in Mass. and Cal., extortion, drugs and at least two escapes from custody. In 1993, Rossi was one of 25 people rounded up in the infamous Boston "Code of Silence" case that broke open the neighborhood's tight clamp on unsolved murders and other crimes. [Boston Herald 11/10/01]
LONGSHOREMEN (ILA)
South Carolina Rioters Get Only Suspended Jail Time
Five S.C. unionists, known as the "Charleston
Five," have pled no contest to low-level misdemeanor charges of participating
in a "riot, rout, or affray," ending the possibility of prison terms.
Judge Victor Rawl of the S.C. Circuit Court, Ninth Circuit, sentenced all
five to 30 days in jail but suspended the sentences upon the payments of
$309 fines and fees. Rawl sentenced Elijah Ford, Ricky Simmons, and
Peter Washington on Nov. 13 and Kenneth Jefferson and Jason Edgerton on
Nov. 7. The five are members of the Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n, were charged
with rioting and conspiracy to riot following an informational picket Jan.
20, 2000, at the Port of Charleston. The unionists were protesting the
use of a nonunion stevedoring company to unload a Danish freighter. Although
police had arrested eight members on misdemeanor charges, S.C. Atty. Gen.
Charlie Condon intervened and raised the charges against five of the dockworkers
to rioting, which is a felony that carries a prison term of up to five
years. Condon, who took over prosecution of the case, procured indictments
from a grand jury, and a trial was scheduled for Nov. 14.
The five had been under house arrest for the last year and one-half and were prohibited from leaving their homes between 7PM and 7AM unless they were working or attending a union meeting. On Oct. 10, when Condon removed himself from the proceedings, the case was transferred to a local prosecutor, who reduced the charges to misdemeanors. Shortly thereafter, the curfew was lifted. [BNA 11/15/01]
CARPENTERS (UBC)
Indiana Dues Collector Pleads Guilty to $29,600 Embezzlement
On July 11, Michele T. Spragur, former office
secretary for United Bhd. of Carpenters Locals 364 and 1124 in Indianapolis,
pled guilty to two counts of embezzling a total of $29,673 in union funds
and two counts of destroying union records. A federal grand jury indicted
Spragur Apr. 18 on two counts each of union embezzlement, falsification
of union records, and destruction of union records. From 1995-98, she was
a secretary for the locals and responsible for collecting union dues. [DOL
7/11/01; USAO S.D. Ind. 4/18/01]
STEELWORKERS (USWA)
North Carolina Embezzler Gets No Jail Time for $22,000 Embezzlement
On July 23, Terry K. Wilson, ex-secretary-treasurer of United Steelworkers
of Am. Local 09-1133-L in Gastonia, N.C., was placed on 3 years supervised
probation and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $6,073, the
amount of the $22,073 in union funds he embezzled which is still outstanding.
He pled guilty plea on May 5. On Feb. 20, a one-count bill of information
was filed charging Wilson with embezzling $22,073 in union funds. [DOL
7/23, 2/20/01]
Virginian Charged with Fraud
On July 9, in the Circuit Court for the City of Newport News (Va.),
Stanley Coppedge, ex-grievance person for United Steelworkers of Am. Local
8888, was indicted on charges of defrauding the Newport News Shipbuilding
Company and/or Local 8888 by obtaining money or property by false pretenses.
[DOL 7/9/01]
BAKERY & TOBACCO WORKERS (BC&T)
Kansas Boss Charged with Stealing $3,500
On July 17, in Sedgwick County (Kan.) Court, Norman George, ex-secretary-treasurer
of Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Int'l Union Local 99G, was
charged in a criminal complaint with felony theft of $3,500. [DOL 7/17/01]
TEACHERS
More Charges for South Florida Boss
An Alabama grand jury added a child pornography charge to those already
facing ex-Broward (Fla.) Teachers Union president Anthony
J. Gentile A felony indictment of "transporting" child pornography
across state lines through the Internet was handed down in Oct. in Birmingham,
Gentile's attorney, David Bogenschutz, said. Gentile, who recently resigned,
was charged this summer with e-mailing child pornography from union computers
to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, then arranging to meet her
for sex. The "girl" was Detective Richard Love with Law Enforcement Against
Child Harm, a task force of federal, county and local investigators. In
the Ala. case, Gentile was accused of striking up a sexual conversation
in an Internet chat room with a Birmingham FBI agent posing as a child
and e-mailing child porn to the agent. [Sun-Sent. (Ft. Lauderdale) 11/10/01]
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