National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
January 21, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 2

For Influential Leaders & Important Decision Makers:
Information on America's most corrupt & aggressive unions

OPERATING ENGINEERS (IUOE)
New York Local Raided in Racketeering Probe
N.Y. prosecutors have reportedly launched a racketeering probe of a Queens local whose members run the cranes and other earth-moving equipment at site of the World Trade Ctr. massacre. The N.Y. State Organized Crime Task Force agents turned up at Int'l Union of Operating Eng'rs Local 14's offices on Jan. 8 and carted off documents and payroll records. The raid was the first action taken in a new probe into reports that mid-level union bosses allegedly doled out no-show jobs, shook down contractors, and engaged in other traditional labor racketeering crimes. Local 14's offices were shut down for more than an hour as agents loaded records into a van. One boss who asked agents for a search warrant was reportedly put up against a wall and frisked. Seized documents reportedly included bank, pension, and annuity fund records. [N.Y. Post 1/13/02]

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