Dinuzzo exposes corruption in Laborers local 79

In the 1994 Laborers Mason Tenders Rico Suit, The United States Department of Justice made the following accusations against Michael C. Pagano who was allowed to remain a member of the Laborers Union (LIUNA ) and who influenced LIUNA Trustee Steve Hammond in the appointment and selection of officers /employees, one of whom was Daniel Kearney, the secretary-treasurer of the Mason Tenders District Council and secretary-treasurer of local 79. On March 31, 2003 Daniel Kearney resigned from both offices after he admitted embezzling $149,330.12 of Local 79 funds for personal purchases. This Hammond protégé and Pagano lapdog is now making proffers to the U.S. Attorney to get a reduced sentence after receiving a criminal information in lieu of indictment in case 1:04-cr-00322-JES (USA v. Kearney.) Laborers for JUSTICE is about to expose the misuse of the trusteeship process by LIUNA, the failure of the LIUNA reform effort to eliminate the influence of organized crime, the utter , unforgivable effort to denigrate the noble efforts of reformers like Pete Dinuzzo .

Pete Dinuzzo filed a complaint with DOl-OLMS in April 2003 against Daniel Kearney for embezzling funds by reporting to DOL-OLMS agent Frank Gonzales. Frank Gonzales brought the matter to the attention of AUSA Serene Nakano who opened a criminal case against Kearney in May 2003. For LIUNA GEB Attorney Robert Luskin to tell me that " it is utter fantasy to assert that Pete Dinuzzo played a role in Kearney 's prosecution" is mean, cruel, and ignorant. Honest members of the Laborers Union like Dinuzzo, Furio, McGough, White, Manos, Wall etc who complain about corrruption in the Laborers Union has always gotten the "shaft instead of the mine"while mob puppet trustees hire their wives at $50, 868 as clerical secretaries.(See Lm2 below for Mason Tenders District Council where Janet Hammond gets $50, 868 in a clear case of nepotism. Ron Fino wrote The LIUNA Inspector General on Dec 30, 1995 about Genovese crime associate Michael Pagano, former assistant to mobster Mike Lorello and stated that John Riggi would corroborate Mike Pagano's connection to the Genovese crime family.

"Moreover, the suggestion that Pete Dinuzzo had some role in bringing this matter to the
attention of OLMS is sheer fantasy." Luskin email to McGough 6/23/2004.

When I get a copy of the complaint with the DOl-OLMS seal that Pete Dinuzzo made against Daniel Kearney, I will send it to the GEB Attorney with a suggestion that he shove it up an orifice.Apparently Michael C. Pagano signed an agreement with the Investigations Offficer, Michael Chertoff, that allowed him to remain as a member of the Laborers Union. We have to get a copy of that agreement, which should be a public document or at least accessible to members of the Laborers Union who were harmed by Pagano's continued influence in the Laborers Union, something we assumed Luskin was supposed to remove.

Jim McGough, Director

Laborers for JUSTICE

773-878-1002

Act

Period

Amount

1987

unknown

1988

$46,530.00

1989

$64,750.00

1990

$58,542.00

Racketeering Act Forty-Four:

It has further been a part of this pattern of racketeering activity that from 1989 to 1992 defendant Michael Pagano, Jr., while a Delegate of Local 104 and President of Local 104, a labor organization that represented, sought to represent and would admit to membership persons employed by Ogden Allied Abatement & Decontamination, Inc. in violation of Title 29, United States Code, Sections 186(b)(1) and (d)(2), unlawfully, knowingly and willfully received, agreed to receive and accept the payment and delivery of money and things of value from Ogden Allied Abatement & Decontamination, Inc. Defendant Pagano shared these payments with co-racketeer Frank Lupo.

Racketeering Act Forty-Five:

It has further been a part of this pattern of racketeering activity that from 1989 to 1992 defendant Michael Pagano, Jr., while a Delegate of Local 104 and President of Local 104, a labor organization that represented, sought to represent and would admit to membership persons employed by Johns Insulation, Inc. in violation of Title 29, United States Code, Sections 186(b)(1) and (d)(2), unlawfully, knowingly and willfully received, agreed to receive and accept the payment and delivery of money and things of value from Johns Insulation, Inc.

Defendant Pagano shared these payments with co-racketeer Frank Lupo.

Racketeering Act Forty-Six:

It has further been a part of this pattern of racketeering activity that from 1989 to 1992 defendant Michael Pagano, Jr., while a Delegate of Local 104 and President of Local 104, a labor organization that represented, sought to represent and would admit to membership persons employed by Hesco Environmental Safety Co., in violation of Title 29, United States Code, Sections 186(b){1} and (d)(2), unlawfully, knowingly and willfully received, agreed to receive and accept the payment and delivery of money and things of value from Hesco Environmental Safety Co. Defendant Pagano shared these payments with co-racketeer Frank Lupo.

Racketeering Act Forty-Seven:

It has further been a part of this pattern of racketeering activity that in 1989-1991 defendant Anthony "Nino" Lanza, while Administrator of the Trust Funds, including the Annuity Fund, and others, did embezzle, steal and unlawfully, knowingly and willfully abstract and convert to his own use the moneys, funds, securities, premiums, credits, property, and other assets of the Annuity Fund, and of funds connected with the Annuity Fund, in excess of $150,000.00 in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 664, by issuing annuity checks totalling approximately $150,000.00 payable to various union members. Anthony "Nino" Lanza caused the signatures of the union members to whom the annuity checks had been issued to be forged

future violations of Section 1962 and to end control over, and exploitation of, the District Council and its constituent Locals by La Cosa Nostra and other criminals;

0. That this Court provide such other relief as may be just and equitable.

Dated: New York, New York September 8, 1994

MARY JO WHITE

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Attorney for Plaintiffs

Schedule 10 from LM-2 for Mason Tenders for 1997.