The following is a list of the major changes to this web over the last month, with the most recent changes shown first:
| 2000-09-02 | This site is being consolidated with the Laborers Network at http://www.thelaborers.net |
| 99-09-30 | Crimedawg urges all members to join Laborers for JUSTICE to mount electoral campaign against appointment of Sabitoni as Coia replacement. Booker should be made president not the son of mobster "Mondo Sabitoni. Armand Sabitoni also suffers the debilitating disease "Lawyeritis". |
| 99-09-29 | CrimeDawg is being bombarded with phone calls from parties
interested in the "rumor" that Arthur A. Coia will resign his
office and retire to a comfortable position with the AFL-CIO Building
Trades Department before he is "hammered" by DOJ. Learned from
Chuck Barnes , LIUNA VP, that there is a meeting of the GEB on
Monday, October 4,1999 but was not able to ascertain if it was a
"special" meeting. Rumor has it that Arthur will announce his
resignation at the AFL-CIO meeting in Los Angeles on or around October 11,
1999 and that Sabitoni (son of "mobster Mondo') will be Coia's
designated heir, a development that Laborers for JUSTICE members consider
intolerable. Gow will have to develop a set of brass balls in a hurry and
exercise the discretionary authority he has to refuse to approve any
appointments to LIUNA's general Executive Board. Odds in Las Vegas are
10-1 he will be found to be emasculated.. Told LIUNA public relations,
"bullshit artist, David Roscow when he called that I had heard about
the rumor, that it was a "rumor" I hope and pray comes true, but
that like an allegation it remains to be proven by events or credible
evidence. Also told David Roscow there were rumors that Whitey Bulger is
telling his IRA friends he will nail Coia in return for clemency as will
organized crime informers Mercurio and Flemmi. See the Salemme
case on Labor Unions
Local 2 goes from tragedy to travesty as incompetent help lose grievance hearings because of lack of training, lack of experience, and general incompetence. More later via court filings If anyone is ever faced with having a "lawyer" serve as a trustee of his labor union, watch the "Peter Principle" in action. |
| 99-09-23 | CrimeDawg starts asking serious questions about whether the LIUNA self reform process is the farce, fraud, and sham many contend.. Files are on Labor Unions and laborers.org |
| 99-09-17 | In typical blundering fashion so as not to be too
successful in the elimination of organized crime from labor unions, the
Court monitor will no doubt hire as his investigative staff agents of
government agencies that do not have the background, experience, integrity
of the ex FBI agents now working for the LIUNA Inspector General.
"Union democracy", initially reborn in local 2 when Crimedawg organized the reformers to challenge crime Boss Matassa will die formally today on Friday, September 17, 1999. Trustee Schippers has never returned Crimedawg's phone calls and offer of help. You would think at least the "ingrate" could do is return phone calls. Schippers would not be trustee if I didn't make the colossal mistake of assuming a lawyer would have been better for local 2 than a union man like Ed Sladowski. What a boner I pulled there.( Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa). The indisputable fact is that local 2 would now today be fighting a complaint for trusteeship with Matassa still in charge and Schippers would not now have the opportunity to abort reform by the ineptitude and incompetence of his assistants. |
| 99-09-01 | Published Canadian
Ethical Practices Code , Made available to members of Laborers
for JUSTICE electronic copies of Appellate Officer decisions.
Published Electronic form for Labor Management reports for use in
connection with database. |
| 99-08-25 | Published Internal Disciplinary charges against Bruno Caruso, Frank Caruso, Leo Caruso, James DiForti that were attached as exhibit K in RICO complaint |
| 99-08-16 | Why the monitorship won't work to achieve desired objectives |
| 99-08-15 | Published newspaper articles on RICO complaint and Consent Decree as well as documents |
| 99-08-12 | RICO Complaint and Consent Decree unsealed today at press conference at DOJ's building which suffered like most of downtown Chicago from a blackout. Jim McGough attended and so did The GEB Attorney, Robert Luskin and Dwight Bostwick. The RICO Complaint , filed yesterday, was unsealed and is available to those requesting a copy. Email your requests to Jim McGough who is scanning the documents right now. |
Obtain Chicago RICO Complaint and consent decree and related files
Appellate Officer decision in PDF and HTML LIUNA refuses to use Laborers for JUSTICE html version
LIUNA'S COIA CLEARED OF INTERNAL DISCIPLINARY CHARGES
Arthur A. Coia, president of the Laborers' International
Union of North America, is cleared of internal disciplinary
charges that he permitted organized crime to influence the
union. In an opinion, Appellate Officer Eggleston affirms
all portions of the independent hearing officer's decision
that were appealed by Robert D. Luskin, the union's general
executive board attorney and in-house prosecutor.
"Having spent years fighting false allegations of mob ties,
I look forward to continuing the work of our great union and
to continuing the partnership we have worked hard to forge
with the government over the past four and a half years,"
Coia says. The Coia investigation was undertaken as part of
an unusual consent decree negotiated in 1995 by LIUNA and
the Justice Department that allows the union to root out
corrupt practices through internal reforms. . .
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Facts: The Chicago Laborers District Council under trustee Robert Bloch has had one communication with the laborers todate and has yet to inform the members the reasons why the district council was put into trusteeship. The deputy trustees, Romano, Sladowski, and Guilfoyle were never vetted by the Inspector general agents in Chicago Guilfoyle used to work for Combined Counties Police Association were CrimeDawg is webmaster. Not one officer has anything good to say about Guilfoyle, formerly of SEIU, a LIUNA competitor. Law enforcement authorities in Chicago tell CrimeDawg Guilfoyle would steal pennies from the eyes of a dead man. The 18 months of trusteeship are up today and unless convincing reasons are given to continue the trusteeship, it is presumed to be invalid under LMRDA. The RICO suit will demonstrate why it should be kept in trusteeship indefinitely. The Laborers Union in Chicago does not need carpetbaggers from the steelworkers or service employees unions to reform itself. Just appoint as officers regular members like" sacrificial lamb" Burke to do their job and have as their superiors someone who knows how unions operate and knows the laborers union's constitution and not the U.S. tax code.
| 99-08-06 | Labor Management Reporting System in final testing Chicago laborers district Council holds secret meetings of delegates without inviting delegates from "targeted" locals despite constitutional requirement of notice to all at regularly scheduled meetings. Discriminatory to say the least because Sam Salerno (trustee of 225 and David Schippers of local 2) were not invited and members of locals 1, 2, 5, 76, 1001, 1006 were disenfranchised. Vince DiVarco will transfer into another local within the District council jurisdiction because the receiving local will accept him. There will be a lawsuit against local officials who refuse to accept transfers within locals from members who want to attend union meetings close to home. California can not tell Illinois residents not to move out there any more than local union officials can deny a valid transfer which solely performs record keeping functions. Laborers for JUSTICE will demand that constitutions be followed. and will start filing RICO suits if reforms are not achieved via current methods. |
John Serpico indicted on multiple counts of labor racketeering. Copies of 80 page indictment can be obtained via email requests to Laborers for JUSTICE
Al Pilotto met former mobsters Angelo Fosco and Arthur E. Coia, father of "no balls to be a gangster," "little Arthur" in hell on July 20,1999. See 1981 indictment
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John Burke, officially announced as deputy trustee of local 2 by David Schippers at the local union meeting held June 8, 1999 at IBEW facilities, signs up 60 members in the course of one month and makes every other LIUNA officer and field rep look bad, deservedly so.. Crimedawg learns that Chicago laborers District Council Trustee, attorney Robert Bloch, distributes $1,400,000 in unallocated dues back to locals instead of returning the money to the individuals who had it taken from their paychecks without having signed a duly authorized dues checkoff form in consent thereof- a no no that is in violation of federal law. Bloch has been a major disappointment to reform minded members-first he appointed his law partner as counsel to the pension fund (no conflict of interest there?), then he refused to provide Laborers for JUSTICE with electronic copies of the transcripts the District Council paid for that were made public via court filings so that Laborers for JUSTICE could publish them free of charge on the internet to educate the members, then he mentioned in his one and only publication to the members that the district council was in trusteeship without telling them why. This is reform? Bullshit. Then to top off Bloch's incompetence he negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that increased "working dues" to 1 and 1/2 percent of hourly wages ($.35)from the $.25 cents in effect in the old agreement-all without approval of rank and file. Members of LIUNA found out in late May 1998 that they might be forced to go on strike June 1, 1998. How's that for notice? By changing the amount for working dues from a set amount to one based on percentages, the union will collect more money every year as wages go up without requiring approval of the members affected-assuming of course they approved the arrangement at least once .Never under estimate the incompetence of those now in charge of running the Chicago Laborers District Council. Some members indicate they would sooner be robbed and cheated by organized crime rather than pin striped attorneys with a legal license to steal. (GEB Attorneys stay at the high priced Sofitel Hotel while LIUNA has a discounted arrangement with Holiday Inn for its representatives.).
Published IHO decision that LeConche crony Silva is a contractor and hence not eligible to run in local 230 election which was protested by Steve Manos
Made transcripts of Coia disciplinary hearing available to members of Laborers for JUSTICE..
Arranged for press coverage of Matassa's barring as well as upcoming events that will deserve press coverage.
Filed election protest requesting new nominations for local 2 (Futile gesture considering Vaira will not handle it promptly)
Published Offer for Supervision to local 2 which was rejected by executive board 5-2, DiMaggio and DiVarco voting to accept..
Published Complaint for Trusteeship against Laborers local 2, Chicago where Chicago "Outfit " member John Matassa is boss and where LIUNA General Vice President Terrence Healy is a member who has never complained about organized crime's influence in the local. Terrence Healy, son in law to mobster Angelo Fosco, is now Coia's assistant and ran unopposed for LIUNA Vice President with the full support of John Matassa and the Chicago Outfit controlled Laborers District Council, now in trusteeship for being under the influence of organized crime. See IHO order.
Added Test Labor Management Reports for Laborers International for 1995 that can be viewed in web browser. All labor management reports filed publicly by LIUNA entities will be web published and systems to detect corruption, untruths reported, etc will be furnished to members of the International. free. Free systems will be provided to members of LIUNA's General executive Board to make freely available to their constituent locals. They all profess to be in favor of reform. How many do you think will provide the members with a tool to monitor union corruption. Odds in Las Vegas say none. What do you think?
Created test site to improve navigation and response time for Laborers.org on Labor Unions
Sent fax of Vaira decision on Coia via e-mail to members of Laborers for JUSTICE and formatted the opinion in 5 minutes better than the LIUNA public affairs department. It can be obtained on http://www.ipsn.org Filed motion to obtain the 5000 pages of transcripts which I will provide to members of Laborers for JUSTICE as well as Office97 Professional edition with Access97 for $50. Signed contracts with 3 leading internet access providers who will give Laborers for JUSTICE $2 per member per month for signing up for internet access. This money will be held in trust and used to finance lawsuits against corrupt union officials and fund a RICO class action suit. Every penny will be itemized on the internet as well as every expenditure.
Filed motion and pleadings with Independent Hearing Officer, LIUNA GEB Attorney, and LIUNA to receive copy of Coia decision and to install reading room for press and members. When unnamed delegates at the Chicago District Council requested Jim McGough leave the hearing because of his non delegate status, McGough forced the creation of a reading room that he attended. Motion filed forced the setting up of a teleconference because LIUNA does not want flash bulbs and TV cameras taking pictures of reformers reading the evidence. Arranged for Steve Greenhouse, John Mulligan and Michael Orrfelt et al to participate in discussion of Coia decision which will be e-mailed to members of Laborers for JUSTICE. Laborers for JUSTICE will e-mail or snail mail decision to LIUNA locals if LIUNA does not to publish decision on LIUNA's web site. Laborers for JUSTICE will force LIUNA to do the right thing whether LIUNA wants to or not. Just watch. LIUNA, under the control of "mob puppet" Coia would not use LIUNAnet in 1996. Do you think those "stumblebums" on the General executive Board are going to start freely communicating with the membership?
Implemented with Steve Manos's help fax via e-mail- a service that would save Viara, Luskin, Gow and the International money. Do you think they will inquire about it? Luskin, God bless him, uses e-mail and is more technologically knowledgeable than Viara from what I can tell. Call or e-mail for details!
IHO Viara's decision on Manos election complaint for local 230 in Connecticut (LoPreato's old local-now LeConche's but still being run by LoPreato according to law enforcement contacts.)
Fax letter 2/04/99 to IHO Vaira, GEB Attorney Luskin, AUSA David Buvinger, LIUNA Secretary-Treasurer Booker requesting electronic copies of Coia decision and dissemination of decision to members. Reply of LIUNA General Counsel, non elected official Michael Bearse 99/02/05 was in response to telephone calls to Coia's former special assistant, Carl Booker, now General Secretary-Treasurer via the appointment process that allows Coia cronies to remain in power and hence continues control and influence of organized crime over LIUNA. Typical.
Added web site for Connecticut Laborers District Council to report on corruption and undemocratic practices of Coia crony, Charles LeConche
Added initial brief on why mail in ballots are required in Local 423
Added DOL-OLMS order for new election in 423. Added email asking for help
Added special web page to scandal in Local 423 where prior prison record is qualification for office.
Added Vaira's order for new elections in 423 to replace ex felon that Peter Fosco supported knowing he was not eligible for office.
Added Congressman's John Kasich's phone number for members of 423 to call to complain about Vaira not effectively requiring members of 423 to be informed of the reasons for the election DOL-OLMS will monitor. Ask Kasich to cut the budget for OLMS if they can't do their job protecting members' right to vote.. Demand a mail in ballot.423 has $1,100,000 in its treasury . Its answer it can't afford a mail in election is pure bullshit and designed to keep organized crime in control of 423.
Added election protest to Peter Vaira on LIUNA local 423 which will be conducted by DOl-OLMS and absentee ballots will not be given to members who live 100 miles from local, a next egg of corruption we will report more about later so as not to jeopardize ongoing investigations.
Added LeConche's lawyer's letter to Nobili that LeConche sought medical treatment after Nobili banged his fist on the table when emphasizing the need for members to be informed. Send Charlie some get well cards and his lawyer a brain.
Added copy of actual LIUNA-DOJ Oversight Agreement and copyright warning it was not to be republished on other web sites. (Theft of property)
Added Tribune article about my local's former secretary treasurer, "Outfit" member James DiForti, who will be tried and convicted for murder soon. Waiting for LIUNA GEB Attorney to remove members of local 5's general executive board who allowed DiForti to be inserted as officer on orders of mob without being a member of local 5 for 2 continuous years- a constitutional requirement.
Added signed copy of extension of oversight agreement signed by Arthur A. Coia, Michael Bearse, and GEB Attorney Robert Luskin and DOJ on January 4, 1999. Agreement was drafted by DOJ, approved by voice vote of LIUNA GEB and supercedes prior agreement of January 22, 1998.
Added commentary and analysis of misstatements of personnel involved in extending agreement and of those reporters who inadvertently disseminate misinformation manufactured by LIUNA's spin doctors.
Added DOJ's extension of oversight agreement with
LIUNA
LIUNA's misleading press release about extension together
with Crime Dawg's analysis of LIUNA bullshit and DOJ
incompetence
Added LIUNA GEB Attorney's motion for summary judgment for permanent injunction against Bruno Caruso, John Matassa, Leo Caruso from interfering with imposition of trusteeship over Chicago Laborers district Council and motion that defendants' counterclaims be dismissed with prejudice. "Boys in Chicago" claim DOJ colluded with Arthur Coia and LIUNA GEB Attorney to protect Arthur A. Coia, "criminal associate of Patriarca New England crime family" per FBI/1994.
Added the press release of Local 665, Nobili's courageous local in Coia territory, on its triumphant win over the corrupt Connecticut District Council and LoPreato's successor, Charlie "The Kingfish" LeConche .Added the U.S. District Court approved settlement which LIUNA's General executive Board will have to sign and promise not to beat up or intimidate reform minded members of LIUNA who want to remove corrupt members of LIUNA's general executive board. The law suit was filed in November 1995 when LIUNA supposedly was promising to reform-(so much for LIUNA promises.) If DOJ can not realize that reform of LIUNA is not possible without imposing the consent decree and removing all the existing members of LIUNA's General executive Board, there is little hope for LIUNA reform. LIUNA's constitutions, crafted by lawyers beholding to organized crime and purposely designed to facilitate organized crime's influence in and control over LIUNA, has got to be radically amended.
Added announcement to Message Board on Connecticut Laborers District Council (Fiefdom of LoPreato, Le Conche and other undesirables) settling law suit filed by reform minded members of Local 665 (Ron Nobili) against corrupt practices of District Council. District Council agreed to have members vote by secret ballot on any increase in working dues paid by members. Hard working, industrious locals were unfairly subsidizing laggard locals controlled by corrupt friends of Arthur A. Coia and the salaries these "bums" were drawing as district council member for not enforcing collective bargaining agreements became oppressive. The practice was also illegal. It took the "reform minded LIUNA" three years to do the morally right thing. Justice with all deliberate due speed) LIUNA signed agreement not to retaliate against reformers. Does this mean reformers don't get beaten up at District Council meetings in full view of LIUNA GEB Vice presidents (Vere .O. Haynes) like Steve Manos did last year?
Added a message board to announce developments and events of interest to Laborers. Sent Chris White BNA press report on Local 5 supervision. Added Clark Hall's statement to House Crime Subcommittee on organized crime and labor unions.
Added U.S. Lamantia court case to provide public background on Frank Caruso who is now trying to organize voters against Judge Locallo, fair minded jurist who sentenced his son, Frank Caruso, Jr to 8 years for senseless "hate crime of beating Bernard Clark, innocent kid who happened to be "wrong" color. (Like father, like son) (The apple does not fall far from the tree) Frank Junior learned everything from his father-including hatred, bigotry, bulliness, (you name the evil or the vice-Frank Junior learned it from his father who is still the director of my pension funds despite being kicked out of LIUNA for being a member of organized crime) I have been complaining for 2 years to the GEB Attorney and U.S. Attorney about this. The trustee of the Chicago district Council hasn't done a damn thing about it despite appointing new trustees. one of whom is a non union member but fellow temple member of trustee Bloch.
Added Supervision Agreement between LIUNA GEB Attorney and Laborers local 5, my local, and the local of Al Pilotto, Dominick Palermo, Nicholas Guzzino, and James DiForti among other members of organized crime that have raped this local over the years. Learned that Frank Zeuberis, president/business manager resigned today. Frank, whose wife was on the payroll, replaced Joseph Neroni as President on orders of the mob in 1994 when DiForti was inserted unconstitutionally as secretary/treasurer without being a member of the local for two continuous years, a constitutional requirement for office. What is funny about the supervision agreement is the statement by the GEB Attorneys that they have become aware of financial irregularities in local 5 and of undemocratic practices, subjects I have been discussing with him for 2 years and with DOL.-OIG for 11 years. My election protest in 1996 revolved around the fact that the local misapplied (stole) one year of my dues my employer paid, rendering me ineligible to run for delegate to the convention.
Added copy of Bill I drafted to amend the LMRDA for congressional approval in next session that will provide to union members requesting a paper and/or electronic copy of his local's membership 60 days prior to any federal and/or union election. If reformers/dissidents can not communicate with their fellow members on social, economic, political issues whenever they want, corruption from unions will never be eliminated. What you can't get one way, you get another. Imagine Coia's friend "Slick Willy" vetoing this bill and trying to retain the support of union members or of "no controlling legal authority" GOREMAN-BOREMAN speaking out against it as a favor to AFL-CIO "Gombas".
98/10/26