Coffee Creek civil suit in the works? By Steve Walsh, Gary Post Tribune, IN
Guilty pleas in the Coffee Creek scandal are not likely to be the end of the road for those involved in the failed $10 million carpenters union pension fund deal.
U.S. Department of Labor officials have talked to rank-and-file union members about plans to file a civil suit - after the criminal cases have finished - against the people responsible for buying the land for the Northwest Indiana Regional Council of Carpenters Pension Fund Trust in May 1999.
An ad hoc group of rank-and-file union members has expressed the members' dissatisfaction with the lack of explanation from leadership about the transaction where the pension fund bought 55 acres for $10 million in the Morgan's Corner section of the Coffee Creek development in Chesterton.