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:: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 ::

Sleaze in the Woodwork - Carpenter Chief Nailed By Tom Robbins, Village Voice
When a Manhattan jury last week found carpenters union head Michael Forde and another union official guilty of receiving a bribe, it was the second corruption conviction in a row for the top official of the city's 25,000-member carpenters union. Forde, the $216,000-a-year chief of the New York District Council of Carpenters, won election in 1999, promising to break with the bad old ways associated with his predecessor, Frederick Devine, who was found guilty of stealing union funds in 1998.

earlier article: bribe no problem, but a beer is another story...

A Mob Soprano Sings by Tom Robbins, Village Voice, Apr 20, 2004
The meeting took place sometime in April at the Hooters restaurant across the street from the hotel. Richard said he gave Rucereto an envelope containing $10,000 to give the officials as a down payment on the bribe. As he told the story, the four men took a table by the window, where they each ordered a beer. He made a special point of recalling a remark by Forde that he 'really shouldn't be having a beer because the union was cracking down on drinking on the job.'

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