National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
January 6, 2003 -- Vol. 6, Issue 1

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

 
LONGSHOREMEN (ILA)
Lawyer Claims Indicted Local NJ Chief will Run Clean Union
Fighting efforts by fed. prosecutors to take over a local union described as "a hospitable environment for mobsters," natl. union officials claim to have taken over and already cleaned up the Bayonne union. The current president of Local 1588 of the Intl. Longshoremen's Assn., John Timpanaro, stands indicted by NJ prosecutors on charges of collecting cash for favored jobs. But the lawyer for Local 1588, Ralph Lamparello, claims that the state's indictment against the reputed Genovese crime family associate "is going to be dismissed." Meanwhile, ILA Vice President John D. Baker claims to have already taken action to clean up the mob-riddled local, and that the proposed fed. takeover is unnecessary.

In 1992, The U.S. Attny. agreed to settle a racketeering lawsuit against 1588, based on the replacement of two mob-controlled officers, and a promise by the new officers to keep organized crime out of the union. In fact, both would later admit that a Genovese associate ordered the two to run for union office, then continued to control the union until all three were convicted in Dec., 2001 of embezzling close to $2 million.

Fed. Dist. Judge John Martin (S.D. NY, G.H.W. Bush) is scheduled to hold a hearing on Jan. 16 on U.S. Attny. James B. Comey's motion for the appointment of an adminsistrator to run the union, free of mob influence. [Jeresy Journal 12/30/02]

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