Re: Lies about Union Corruption
Nathan Newman wrote:
Even the example you give is more complicated.
-Actually you gave the example, to make the point that the case was -being mischaracterized as union corruption when it was corporate. In -fact, it was a joint venture in corruption, a fine example of -labor-management cooperation in stealing workers’ assets. It took -less than five minutes of Googling to find this out.
Except you were mixing two different legal investigations and crimes. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/15/ln/ln07p.html “Wong’s criminal case is separate from the federal prosecution that resulted in the conviction of former United Public Workers head Gary Rodrigues on charges of mail fraud, money laundering and embezzling union money.”
Don’t forget the next two paragraphs:
One of the charges against Rodrigues was that a contract he negotiated with PGMA to provide coverage for UPW members allowed the company to transfer a portion of the premium payments to the union to hire a consultant to review the medical plan. Rodrigues, however, did not notify the union that he had selected his daughter, Robin Rodrigues Sabatini, to be the consultant, according to federal prosecutors. Sabatini did little or no work for the hundreds of thousands of dollars she was paid, the prosecutors said.