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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, April 29, 2004 ::
2 guilty in union-bribe probe By BARBARA ROSS, New York Daily News
The president of the New York District Council of Carpenters and a business agent for one of its locals were convicted yesterday of taking a bribe from a mob-run firm to let it use nonunion workers.
After a day of deliberations, a Manhattan jury convicted council boss Michael Forde and Local 608 agent Thomas Devereaux of accepting $10,000 in cash as part of a $50,000 promised bribe. The payment was made by a defunct construction company owned by Sean Richard in connection with renovations at the Park Central Hotel in midtown.
Congressional Testimony Sept. 7, 2001 CDU archives (reference at bottom of page)
"In this 36 page statement McCarron goes into detail about the need to restructure our union and eradicate corruption. McCarron uses New York in particular to emphasize how pervasive the corruption and organized crime influence is in New York. He goes on to make examples of all the different crime families that had a grip on union carpentry and the steps needed to cleanup the union. Much of McCarrons testimony is true. However, He handed over the New York City District Council to many of the same people that he claimed he needed to remove. McCarron fired honest people and kept the corrupt. He did this to further his own agenda knowing he couldn’t be stopped because the membership could not elect their own Business agents an organizing personnel. See related articles marked exhibit A-D. Getting back to the questionable appointments that I referred to earlier, I would like to start with Mike Forde. Forde was appointed Business Agent by McCarron despite McCarrons knowledge of his involvement with organized crime. McCarron refused to intervene even after Forde was indicted in September of 2000 on charges of enterprise corruption. Forde is currently the elected EST of the NYC District Council of Carpenters in NY and still awaiting trial."------------------------------------------- posted 7:03 AM :: reference link ::
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