Gentlemen:

Both the Mason Tenders District Council of New York and laborers local 79 are going to request voluntary supervisions in August in lieu of receiving complaints for trusteeships from LIUNA GEB Attorney Robert Luskin. When local 79 was created in 1996 to accommodate the members from the 12 mob controlled local unions that were going to be merged/consolidated into local 79, GEB Attorney appointed Steve Hammond as trustee of local 79. Steve Hammond was influenced in his  appointments of provisional officers and employees of  local 79 by Michael C. Pagano. Hammond recommended Pagano as business manager of local 79 and was told by Court Monitor Pedowitz that Pagano could not be appointed. He signed a consent decree in the Mason Tenders RICO suit prosecuted by SDNY AUSA Allan Taffet in court case 94 Civ. 6487 (the "Civil RICO Action")  see document 67 in case

Daniel Kearney Secretary treasurer of Local 79 and of the Mason Tenders District Council resigned his offices in March 2003. He plead guilty to embezzling funds on his local union American Express card, see criminal case 1:04-cr-00322-JES USA v. Kearney on June 22, 2004. DOL-OLMS agent Frank Gonzalez brought the case to AUSA Serene Nakano (SDNY) after local 79 member, Peter Dinuzzo, told Frank about it.  In the last year, Kearney, President Frank Noviello, Executive Board member Andy Cefalo have resigned their offices in local 79 and the bums on the executive board have replaced them by appointing their cronies to the vacancies, assuring the continued control of local 79 by organized crime. In 1961, LIUNA's constitution required elections if there were vacancies in office greater than a year. In 1971, the constitution was amended at mob controlled conventions to allow appointments, depriving members of LMRDA right to elect officers. Anthony Silveri will step down in September 2004 as business manager of the Mason tenders District Council.

Luskin, we fear, will appoint Steve Hammond, a member of local 79 and LIUNA vice President at large as supervisor or Richard Ello, cousin to mobster Gaspar Lupo. We can prove that Hammond has been grossly negligent in the past in appointing provisional officers when he has been trustee or supervisor of LIUNA locals. Or Luskin will appoint LIUNA Vice President Pocino, who informants say is organized crime and mobster Sam Caivano's convenient replacement.

We do not want anyone appointed to provisional office or employement who is related to organized crime members or asociates.

We are sick and tired at seeing the ineffectual efforts of DOJ and DOL at eliminating corruption from the Laborers Union.

Don't allow LIUNA to continue its practice of appointing replacements for resigning officers. Demand elections. File a RICO suit or class action law suit against LIUNA and force them to change back to the constitutional provisions it enacted in 1961 in response to the 1959 LMRDA. 

call me at 773-878-1002 so I can give you the names of the pension fund managers and union officers who bought property and later resold the property to the union's pension fund at a profit. Very similiar to what Jimmy Hoffa did with his Florida land purchase. here are emails to LIUNA Inspector General Gow and Chicago AUSA David Buvinger.

Jim McGough, Director

laborers for JUSTICE

----- Original Message -----

 LIUNA Inspector General Douglas Gow

AUSA David Buvinger (Chicago)

Dear Doug:

Will you please check and see if the Thomas White, now deputy Supervisor of local 872, is the same Thomas White who plead guilty to fraud in the criminal case 9:86-cr-00511-JM-ALL

and let me know the results. The docket for the case is below. My investigators believe it to be the same individual and just another example of how organized crime parachutes individuals

around the country into LIUNA locals that know nothing about the individuals background. (i.e  Dimaggio et al.)

You also might want to check out the background of Anthony Silveri and see when he first joined LIUNA. I have talked to the business agent who signed him up in New York and they believe this individual with a New England accent is from Massachusetts or Rhode island, had his membership suspended, should not have been eligible to run for office in local 79, had his eligibility status records changed to hide the fact, and is related to New England organized crime figures.

George Vaughn of local 872, friend of Randy Dalton who was hired by Dalton as a business agent in local 2, should have never been hired. Lynn O'Day of DOL-OIG Chicago told me that when she told me "he was bad, bad, bad," Reggie Robinson should never have been hired as a business agent of local 2 by Dalton after he resigned in June 2002 as secretary treasurer and signed a settlement agreement. Luskin admitted it was a mistake just as he admitted it was mistake not to have a thorough airing of the facts to justify the voluntary supervision of local 2. Your agents, Scigalski and O'Rourke told Trustee Schippers in 1999 that Richard Caravetta was organized crime yet he was allowed to run for office in March 2001. I asked Luskin and Court Monitor Miller to investigate Caravetta in 2001. Nothing happened. Scigalski kept telling me he was about to investigate in 2001 but he never did. Caravetta signed a settlement agreement in January 2002 when he was told he was about to be investigated, 9 months after the March election and 10 months after Scigalski came to the nomination meeting and was told by me that Caravetta was organized crime. I sat down with Election Officer Quindel and told her the same thing on the very day I protested the eligibility of a convicted murderer on Caravetta's slate.

If your office does not have the resources to investigate corruption in the Laborers union, please let me know so I wouldn't bother gathering the evidence to prove collusion in the purchase of property by LIUNA trustees and managers of the pension fund and the eventual reselling of the property to the pension fund. (Self dealing identical to Jimmy Hoffa's purchase of Florida land in his wife's name)

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1.      Tommy (Thomas) Michael White

Alias:  Tommy (Thomas) Batten

                        Tommy (Thomas) Lundgren

            SSN  089-44-2833

            DOB  02/25/66

            Current Address:  8225 Old Cistern Ct., Las Vegas, NV 89131

            Old Address:  1400 Hiawatha Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89108

            4406 Dover Pl., Las Vegas, NV 89107

                                    2219 24^th St., Astoria, NY 11105

                                    2320 41^st St., Queens, NY 11377

U.S. District Court
Eastern District of New York (Uniondale)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 9:86-cr-00511-JM-ALL