WFB: One of Philadelphia’s most powerful union bosses and the city’s Democratic majority leader stand accused of embezzling funds from the workers they claimed to represent.
The Department of Justice indicted International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98 boss John “Doc” Dougherty Jr. and several other union officials, as well as Democratic City Councilman Bobby Henon, on corruption charges. They face 116 counts of misusing of union funds to serve their own interests rather than those of their members. read more
I think most union bosses use union dues like it’s their own personal money.
Just doing what all union bosses do.
The whole point of a union – ANY union – is to steal from the members.
Remember Robert Reich saying that union bosses must hold their members’ feet to the fire? That’s NOT a declaration that the union bosses work for the members!
Quite the contrary.
(Oh, and on the surface, it looks like the DA didn’t get his check – or a big enough check)
izlamo delenda est …
Thanks to Demoncrat DA’s and the justice system most of them will be in nursing homes when the cases come up. In PA they are better protected than the Clintons.
Unions served a valid purpose once.
Those days are long gone.
They no longer do.
Must have been those WNBC power distrubution spanners.
“For more than a year, FBI agents wiretapped the Philadelphia labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and City Councilman Bobby Henon as part of an ongoing investigation. . .”
Just one more fine example of wealthy, big city, cigar-smoking democRATz rewarding cronies with public funds, establishing hostile business environments, heavily taxing the most productive citizens, setting up fat pensions for their union friends running yet a nuther, run-down, shot-up, burned-out, phucked-up, poverty-stricken, crime-ridden, rat-infested, urine-soaked, feces-friendly, certified “Shit-Hole” for decades!
So?
At least the Teamsters missed out on this one. How?
This gets reported as if it’s an isolated occurrence, spare us the bullshit. This is on page 1 of the democrat book of standard practices.
116?! 😮
That’s just the past WEEK’S worth of charges, right? 😳