National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
December 23, 2002 -- Vol. 5, Issue 26

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

 
TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Ex-NY Teamster Boss Indicted for Extortion
Richard Jedlicka was arrested Dec. 10 on charges of extortion that he allegedly carried out as a Carmel, NY, Teamster official in the 1990s. He is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attny. for the East. Dist. of NY.

Jedlicka was a business agent with Local 456 of the Intl. Bhd. of Teamsters in 1996 and 1997, when he allegedly threatened an unidentified construction company with violence unless the company paid money and no-show job wages to the Local. According to the indictment, the union stopped work at the site until the owner gave them what they wanted.

In 1999, the fed. Independent Rev. Bd. (IRB) implicated Jedlicka in a scheme allowing union officers to buy union-owned cars for their personal use at below-market prices. Jedlicka was cleared at the time, but the long-time president of Local 456, Edward Doyle, was forced to resign his office for his role in the scam.

Michael Kulstad, a spokesman for the U.S. Attny., declined to name the company allegedly victimized by Jedlicka, but did say that "the investigation is continuing." [White Plains Journal News 12/17/02]

Union Corruption Update is made possible by the generous contributions from readers like you. NLPC, PO Box 6821, Falls Church, VA 22040. Thank you. Union Corruption Update is part of NLPC's Organized Labor Accountability Project which is investigating and exposing corruption in the Teamsters, LIUNA, AFL-CIO and many other union organizations. NLPC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit foundation promoting ethics and accountability in government through research, education and legal action.

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