2000-10-31

Published DRUM- The Democratic Rights of Union Members Act that failed to pass in 1998 that has remarks by Clyde Summers on wrongfully extending trusteeships (ala local 2)

Published LIUNA's petition for redetermination of $3 Million tax deficiency

See previous article on scam LIUNA racketeers were involved in

In the petition, LIUNA falsely claims "The petitioner provides its services and support to the Mail Handlers Union and to its regular members not out of a desire to make a profit, but rather to fulfill its Constitutional mandate to perform functions for subordinate bodies and their regular members. 

The petitioner provides its services as a way of increasing the coffers of its funds so organized crime and its friends, cronies, and "mouthpieces" can benefit.. LIUNA is in competition with private business when it derives a commission from the selling of internet access and CrimeDawg will so report this to the tax commissioner.

 

Boston Local 223's Martin Walsh pushes for harbor construction and threatens politicians who vote against it.

FBI increases reward to $500,000 for Whitey Bulger. CrimeDawg asks Whitey 1)  to turn himself in  to Laborers for JUSTICE so reformers can afford to contest corrupt incumbents and 2) to spill the beans on the New England Organized Crime family so Gow and Luskin will more aggressively prosecute corruption in Hartford, Connecticut and Providence RI

Summary of IRS rules for making 990 reports available to union members

Public Disclosure of Material Relating to Tax-Exempt Organizations (Final Rules)

O'Neil to talk about mob in Massachusetts and New England. Coia to be discussed according to Crimedawg

"hacko di tutti hacki" meets "capo di tutti' capi

Cesspool of Corruption in Massachusetts smells the same as the Illinois cesspool

Published NLPC's analysis of LIUNA's reform

The Failure of the LIUNA “Internal Reform Effort”

2000-10-30 Published Gangbox's observations about corruption in the Carpenters union which is similar to that in the Laborer's union.

Published transcript of local 2 court hearing wherein a TRO was not granted. GEB Attorney on record indicating members can vote not to pay lawyer bills and other non-recurring  until they approve. Transcript reveals Schippers let $18,000 check be cashed by Local 2's attorney, former Chicago corporation counsel, James Montgomery, as legal fees after local 2 members specifically voted against the payment. Is this a criminal violation by Matassa? Did Schippers and Montgomery aid and abet this LMRDA violation? Will Schippers explain the payment as professional courtesy-one shark to another? Will Schippers explain the personal phone calls local 2 paid for that Crimedawg has reported but which have not been investigated? Will David Schippers explain the $30,000 CrimeDawg has reported as not being received by designated recipients? Will Randy Dalton allow CrimeDawg to examine LIUNA's income tax return in local 2's office, a copy of which by law should be in each local's office that is part of LIUNA's group exemption?

2000-10-29 Published 11 page 1999 Labor Management Report (LM-2) for Chicago District Council as 75k image file and 88k searchable PDF file-less than 10k a page as LM2 project nears completion
2000-10-28 Robert Bloch and Randy Dalton and Chicago District Council Delegates' understanding of computer systems.  Chicago Laborers LU 152 Business agents taking a break before visiting job sites
2000-10-27 Use of Trusteeships to Prevent Opposition to Entrenched Leadership Within LIUNA: Trusteeships are utilized in two ways to maintain control over the union membership. The first way is to give facial legitimacy to the notion that the union is acting to eliminate corruption when the trustee is actually acting to perpetuate the status quo, i.e., LCN control. The second way that trusteeships are utilized is to control local and subordinate entities that are opposing the international leadership. Both uses of trusteeships are illustrated by the following examples, among others: See Local 2 for newest example

Made available all court cases involving Laborers in California  What useful, "honest" information do the stumblebums, neer-do-wells, and co-conspirators on LIUNA's General Executive Board provide the members? What prostitution of "the truth" has not yet been perpetrated  by LIUNA's  spinmeisters, whoremongers, and perps. Throw the bums out and clean house!! Fumigate LIUNA's fuggy headquarters. Legal advice to attorneys for LIUNA officers.

Published Washington Attorney General complaint for taking union dues without permission from members together with press release. Will have to start telling members about Beck rights if Chicago Laborers District Council doesn't shape up and play fair. Randy "The Dolt" Dalton refuses to provide CrimeDawg his communication to O'Sullivan on McGough's transfer. We will get it via discovery if necessary as we haul his ignorant ass into court thereby causing Local 2 unnecessary legal fees. Where does GEB Attorney find these trustees so ignorant about labor law? so unprofessional?  in a chickenpluckin factory?

Published 2000 Election plan for Chicago Laborers District Council prepared by Trustee Robert "Bobbie count the money" Bloch which very generously sets the salary for business manager at $175,000, allows for self nomination (something Bloch would not allow in Lazzaretto's Local 152 1998 election as he engineered Mike's uncontested election), and which should have been reported to locals by their delegates. Bloch of course refuses to educate the members and has yet to inform them of the reasons why the District Council was put into trusteeship and consented to a RICO complaint. In the opinion of Crimedawg, Robert Bloch is a "disaster" as trustee/supervisor of the Chicago Laborers District Council and should resign as Deputy Election Officer because of obvious conflicts of interest that those in charge of reform are too blind to see.

Felon Coia's granting of a variance and tolerance to permit officers to receive multiple salaries from multiple entities is also included. If you are his friend and crony, you get the gold . If you are his political enemy, you get the shaft.

The salary for all elected officers shall increase by 5% per year, the same amount the members expect their wages to increase via next year's collective bargaining agreement, an agreement the members will demand to ratify. Are the hypocrites, phonies, and "chickenplucker" stooges  on the Chicago District Council going to have the courage to tell their members they can't get 5% or that they can't ratify their collective bargaining agreements? Are these spineless, gutless "Labor Leader Poseurs" going to tell the members, like LIUNA VP Sabitoni (another son or son-in-law of a mobster), that the members are not smart enough to understand a collective bargaining agreement?

2000-10-26 Began publishing court dockets for cases involving/affecting laborers 

Published Court monitor's response to Donato's motion to dismiss

2000-10-25 Examining court case filed in Northern Illinois District Court for $1000 in damages that probably cost more than $1000 in lawyer fees and court costs with Michael Daley of George and Daley serving as counsel for Central Laborers Pension/Welfare fund. Who says lawyers don't milk the cash cow? Michael Daley is Little Big Man's brother. His other brother, William, is about to receive a very generous offer for his stock in Amalgamated Bank which is being acquired by Ullico, the AFL-CIO Insurance company. Payback time? Who steals more from union pension funds? The Irish Mafia or the Italian mafia? 

Published LIUNA Provisional General President O'Sullivan's letter acknowledging there is no sound basis under the governing federal laws to preclude McGough's transfer into local 2 or for that matter the right of any member to transfer into any damn local he/she wants to transfer into.

2000-10-24 Published Decavalcante Indictment

Met with superhero, super-Laborer for JUSTICE Ron Fino at FBI Special Agent Ernest Luera's retirement party and had Ron confirm to AUSA Oswald and AUSA Buvinger that Ron told me many times that John Michael Lazzaretto (Business manager Local 152 a/ka/ "Lazzaretto State Bank", pension fund trustee today and with Vincent Solano et al., LECET director),  would be "Coia's point man" in taking over control of the Chicago District Council's Pension and Welfare fund. Coia, now a convicted felon, is in the opinion of CrimeDawg "a criminal associate of the Patriarca New England organized family", an opinion CrimeDawg will substantiate with more than a preponderance of evidence in due course.

 

2000-10-21 Linked to all decisions of NLRB mentioning Laborers
2000-10-20 DeCavalcante Crime Family dealt a blow   See news stories and press releases. Indictment to follow.

Former Chicago Police Detective indicted in "mob jewelry ring". News stories

2000-10-18 Interesting 7th Circuit case interpreting Sec 501 of the LMRDA that is adverse to Fitzgerald of IBEW and encouraging to union reformers, especially those who intend to sue the members of local 152 who voted not to recover the interest lost on the embezzled money Mike Lazzaretto claims his father took and which he knew about when he appointed his father as secretary-treasurer. Local 152 hired as "Independent Counsel" the same attorney who serves as defense counsel to local 152 (Ed "Meter Man" Hogan) and as counsel to the District Council  and people wonder why reformers consider LIUNA's reform a "sham,. a farce , and a cruel fraud" . God bless Tom Geoghegan, 10 times the Union Democracy Stalwart compared to Robert "Bobbie count the money" Bloch, DOJ's fair haired mediocrity as trustee/supervisor of the Chicago Laborers District Council. The interests of locals are not identical to those of the District counsel and in fact are many times conflicting.

Picture symbolizing LIUNA's treatment of blacks, minorities, reformers

2000-10-16 Randy "the dolt" Dalton fires local 2's first black field representative as DOJ monitors continuing corrupt practices, policies and procedures of Chicago Laborers District Council, now under court monitorship via RICO consent decree that clearly stated Council was under control of organized crime and engaged in undemocratic practices that continue unabated under the "see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil" supervision of Luskin's appointee, incompetent supervisor, Robert "Bobbie count the money" Bloch . Thurgood Marshall to be replaced by Clarence Thomas in nefarious skullduggery to deprive local 2 members of legitimate political aspirations. Dalton promised the members of local 2 twice that if he replaced any field reps in local 2 they would be replaced by qualified local 2 members. We will find out today whether Dalton is 
  • a liar, 
  • a scumbag, 
  • a "douchebag tool" of corrupt LIUNA officials.
  • all of the above

Added search facility to do free search of all AP (Associated Press)  News Wire reports in past 14 days. Laborers for JUSTICE members will soon be able search all court cases and all newspaper articles, LM2s, LM15s, collective bargaining agreements. What services does LIUNA provide its members? What useful information does Robert "Bobbie count the money" Bloch provide the members? eh? LIUNA General Executive Board members? eh?

Started publication of all documents relating to victory by IAM union members to force International to notify members about LMRDA. To serve as template for LIUNA members and members of other corrupt undemocratic unions controlled by organized  crime and/or self enriching thugs,  low lifes,. neer-do-wells, stumblebums.

2000-10-07

News October 7, 2000

House, Senate conference OKs compensation for Amchitka workers in Alaska

Editorial in Chicago Tribune explains why those in charge of cleaning up corruption in Laborers union won't be able to and  why Laborers are suckers to believe they have any hope of eliminating corruption without filing lawsuits.

Added image of Local 81 logo used in campaign literature by incumbents for IHO Vaira to examine. If he wants it magnified, he can call me and break his disgusting unprofessional  habit of not returning phone calls. See 2000-10-05

First draft of New England Organized Crime History with ties to Coias et al-the case LUSKIN couldn't prove but whose dots Crimedawg will connect with hyperlinks.

LIUNA General President defends PLA's and unions

Laborer with "balls", unlike LIUNA General Executive Board members afraid to complain about organized crime, makes one last jump.

2000-10-06

How the Chicago "Outfit" compares to Firestone and Nicor

Published first Database table of LIUNA's Public and Private sector collective bargaining agreements that will include in due course the text of each agreement for comparison purposes, something LIUNA will never do because the incumbents do not believe in providing information to the members.

Federal Grand Jury Now Probing Trumka
There is a new development, finally, in the federal investigation of Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer and top union ally of Al Gore, for his alleged participation in two money-laundering conspiracies that involving $200,000 and aided the 1996 reelection campaign  of ex-Teamsters boss Ron Carey. According to the Washington Times, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been empanelled and it has subpoenaed AFL-CIO records concerning the transactions in question.

While the Clinton-Gore-Reno Dep't of Justice have refused to comment on the Trumka probe, DOJ recently blocked the Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters from going to court to seek $9 million in damages in a civil racketeering suit, saying it would undermine a criminal investigation.

Despite the federal investigation of Trumka, Gore refuses to end his relationship with the troubled union boss and allowed Trumka to be a featured speaker at the Democratic Convention. Trumka was instrumental in securing the AFL-CIO early endorsement of Gore last Oct. Trumka has used the Fifth Amendment to avoid federal investigators' questions about the conspiracy. [Wash. Times 9/26/00] Note that the Nat'l Legal & Pol'y Ctr. recently filed a complaint with the Pa. Bar to have Trumka, an attorney, disbarred for this conduct; read NLPC's complaint at http://www.nlpc.org.

Washington Times defends integrity of David Schippers, former trustee of local 2.In the likely event that LIUNA seeks to extend the trusteeship of local 2, they will have to demonstrate that Mr. Schippers was incompetent as a trustee and,  for that matter, also Joe Romano and now Randy Dalton, business manger of Local 681 and executive board member of the Chicago District Council. If Mr. David Schippers, Joseph Romano, and Randy Dalton can not correct the abuses that necessitated the trusteeship in 18 months, they are truly incompetent as are the people that appointed them. If everyone started telling the truth and provided easy access to information the members need to exercise their right of self governance, there would be less need for trusteeships and less need for the lawyers "to milk the cash cow" in the "organized Crime Elimination" business. 

2000-10-05

Read the asinine, undemocratic, illogical  opinion of LIUNA's Independent Hearing Officer, Peter Vaira, that denies justice to LU81 members and sanctions unjust, unfair tactics of incumbents. Democracy is inconvenient, Mr Vaira, and so is doing the right thing. Justice loses to expediency.

See the image of the union logo Vaira does not consider official and send money to Vaira for a pair of glasses.

 2000-10-04

The Oregon Pension fund scandal: The question that should be asked is:
1. How did the Oregon debacle occur when the union was under oversight via the LIUNA/DOJ approved "Operating Agreement" ???
Also:
2. The fact that Wall, Cooksey, Manos, & Nobili were abandoned by Luskin/
DOJ etc. is a good example of abandonment.

Surveillance image of LIUNA lawyer or liar-not sure which-maybe both

Submitted job application to replace ailing Kelly as Randy Dalton's assistant in local 2. Confirmed that my reporting of Dalton's answer of "40" to Burke's question of "how many hours a week would Kelly be working" had the desired effect of ending Kelly's pension. Song explaining why Kelly won't be coming to work at local 2 A song for hodcarriers everywhere. Get real Audio

GEB Attorney Luskin and Inspector General Gow on top of Oregon Fraud
Published Links to U.S. Attorney Press releases in anticipation of press release on indictment  of some former and present LIUNA officials, some for racketeering, some for LMRDA violations-all enemies of Crimedawg and honest laborers. If the Federal grand juries will not indict, eager beaver Republican States Attorneys in counties surrounding Cook will obtain them.  Sad to say, but the U.S. Attorney's office for Northern Illinois does not have a web site. Sad but not surprising.

Suffolk District Attorney Catterson Announces Guilty Plea and First Indictment in County Prevailing Wage Cases. Garbage Carting Investigation Leads to Guilty Plea on Carting Related and Prevailing Wage Crimes. Catterson Joined by County and Labor Leaders in Announcing Actions to Protect Workers.

2000-10-03

100,000 Oregon LIUNA workers, retirees, and dependents stand to lose 225 Million in pension fraud by trustees and people wonder why I object to having John Michael Lazzaretto (LU 152), Bloch's fair haired boy who Bloch appointed  as pension fund trustee.John Michael has recently told his members that he knew his father had embezzled union  money when he had him appointed secretary treasurer of Local 152, a/k/a "the Lazzaretto State Bank"

,2000-10-03

Filed Notice of Appeal of Election officer decision to have the record accurately reflect that Robert Bloch. appointed deputy election officer via January 18, 2000 agreement, is a charged party in the conspiracy to deprive McGough and other members of their LMRDA and LIUNA constitutional rights to transfer and to express their opinions as well as "judge. direct and correct" the actions of their elected representatives.

Explanation of why reform in LIUNA is "a farce, a fraud, and a sham" via confidential memo to U.S. Attorney and Chicago District Council Court Monitor which also explains for the LIUNA Election officer why Robert "Bobby count the money" Bloch, Randy Dalton, Frank Riley and James Connolly are guilty of conspiring to unconstitutionally and unethically deprive me of my rights under LIUNA's constitution and the LMRDA.

2000-10-02

LIUNA Election officer issues first decision:  Commentary later See Docket

The protest will be held in abeyance until October 20, 2000. If the International approves McGough's transfer, the protest will be dismissed as moot. If McGough's transfer is denied, or if the International takes no action by October 20, 2000, the protest will be returned to the active docket, investigated, and ruled on.

A CONCRETE VICTORY--The 14 drivers at Payless Concrete in St. Joseph, Mo., chose a voice at work with Laborers Local 579 Sept. 27. The workers overcame an aggressive anti-union campaign that included spying, coercion, threats and replacement of some workers, according to Local 579 Business Manager G.E. Pierce.

2000-10-01

Business man pleads guilty to cheating his workers

Laborers for JUSTICE members obtain free ebook reader and thousands of free classical novels and plays for their children and relatives. What does LIUNA provide its members for free?