National Legal and Policy Center -- Organized Labor Accountability Project
 
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
 
March 31, 2003 -- Vol. 6, Issue 7

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

 
ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS (IUEC)
More Sentences Announced in Multi-Million Dollar Racketeering Scheme in NYC
The U.S. Ofc. of Labor-Mgmt. Standards announced the following plea and sentencing in the $6 million racketeering case against 26 bosses and members of the Intl Union of Elevator Constructors Local One  The two defendants were charged following a joint investigation by the New York branch of the U.S. Office of Labor-Management Standards, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration, the FBI, and the IRS.  They were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

On March 12, Thomas McCarthy, a member of Elevator Constructors Local One, was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay $4,600 in restitution and perform 50 hours of community service. He had earlier pled guilty to misdemeanor charges for conspiracy to demand and receive illegal payments.

On March 10, Terrance Carr, organizer and former warden of Elevator Constructors Local One, pled guilty to a superceding information charging him with making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001. He had lied to investigators regarding his involvement in a no-show job scheme. [OLMS 3/25/03]

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