National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
November 25, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 24

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

 
OPERATING ENGINEERS (IUOE)
Ex-Pa. Bus. Agent Confesses to Embezzling from Strike Fund
John L. Dorrier, Jr. pled guilty on Nov. 14 to falsifying, then cashing, nearly 1,000 vouchers for supposed picketing. He also pled guilty to tax evasion by hiding these payments from the I.R.S.

Beginning in 1993, the frmr. business agent for Operating Engineers Local Union 66, in Monroeville, Penn., prepared expense vouchers for individuals who had done no picketing, then insisted on collecting the checks personally rather than having them mailed. Dorrier then forged the payees' signatures on the endorsement lines, and either cashed or deposited them into his account. To hide these payments from the IRS, Dorrier allegedly kept records of his fictitious picketers, and limited the amount "paid" to under $600 to avoid triggering the filing of 1099 tax forms. He also paid cash to relatives and friends that went unreported to the IRS. When some of the "picketers" began receiving 1099 tax forms, Dorrier paid them not to report the problem to the IRS.

As part of the plea agreement, Dorrier agreed to repay the $56,195 that he kept for his own purposes from 1992 to Nov. 1998. He pled guilty to one count of union embezzlement, one count of forgery, and one count of tax evasion. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Sr. Fed. Judge William Standish (U.S.D.C. W.D. PA, Reagan) on Feb. 20. [U.S.A.O. W. D. PA  11/14/02]

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