DC:
Embezzlement, Theft Charges Against Labor Kingpin May Cripple Dems’ 2020 Machine.
Pennsylvania Democrats are worried about the short-term future of their political machine after authorities charged a Philadelphia labor leader with numerous counts of embezzlement, bribery and theft, Politico reports.
John Dougherty, the business manager of Philadelphia’s branch of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and six other labor officials were indicted on 116 charges related to lavish misuse of union funds and buying influence with corrupt politicians, Philadelphia’s The Inquirer and CBS Philly report.
The 159-page indictment was released by the federal court in Pennsylvania Friday. It details more than two years of FBI and IRS operations and raids launched against IBEW Local 98 offices, union officials and their homes.
Dougherty used union funds as his “personal bank account and as a means to obtain employment for himself, his family, and his friends,” the indictment says, according to The Inquirer. read more
Now that Right to Work is the law of the land, union members are going to be taking a closer look at organizations they no longer are required to pay.
Do they also charge the Johns and Janes from whom they bought influence?
When their pension fund goes broke they’re gonna come running to you and I to bail them out.
What’s the big deal.
Isn’t this pretty much the norm for Unions?
Unionized Criminal Mafioso Democraps in (eastern) PA?!?!
Lemmee put on my “shocked” face!!!
🙄
CALL ME when they get rid of the Philthadelphia voting machines, that come pre-loaded with more democrap votes, than the total number OF voters in THAT precinct… 🙄
I imagine the union sleezoids are flabbergasted that they were busted simply for conducting business as usual.
Encore! Encore!
…sorry, I saw “Democrat Cash Cow” and immediately thought it was a Hillary reference because all 3 of those words, separately or together, in any order, would describe HER well…
as a former member of IBEW local 26, color me surprised
…. NOT!
@AbigailAdams February 2, 2019 at 2:06 pm
> Do they also charge the Johns and Janes from whom they bought influence?
Only if the check memos said “Bribe”.
as his “personal bank account and as a means to obtain employment for himself, his family, and his friends,”
Didn’t Bill and Hill Clinton do the same thing?