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MGT402
October13, 2003
UNION CORRUPTION
Some Labor union officials are still taking advantage of the trust that their membership place in them by embezzling union funds.
As a union iron worker an a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers I find it appalling that my international officers have been caught, charged and prosecuted by the U. ...
The Iron Workers Union, which is located in Washington, D. ... , is the parent union organization for more than 125,000 ironworkers throughout the United States and Canada. ...
The corruption within the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers ("Iron Workers Union"), was not limited to the top Union officers, but also with the law firm that represented them. ...
Beginning at least by 1992, Victor Van Bourg was an active and leading participant with the Unions President Jake West, other top Union officials, and the Unions outside accounting firm (the Thomas Havey Company) in a conspiracy to defraud iron workers and the U. ... Department of Labor by concealing and covering up the full amount of Union expenditures for Union President Jake West, Union General Secretary Leroy Worley, Union Treasurer James Cole, and several other Union officials. These top Union officers and others spent nearly half a million dollars for their dining and drinking at the Prime Rib restaurant in Washington, D. ... That $500,000 was in excess of and in addition to more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) paid during the same time period directly to Union officials West, Worley, Cole, Darrel Shelton and Fred Summers or to other restaurants and country clubs for their dining, drinking, golfing, and entertainment. ... In addition to the concealment of those unauthorized expenditures and embezzlements of the Unions money, the investigation revealed that Van Bourg also directed that the amount of legal fees paid by the Union to him and his firm be under reported and concealed in the annual LM-2 Report. ... This ongoing investigation has led to the guilty pleas of ten persons, including seven former top officials and employees of the Iron Workers Union, two outside public accountants for the Union, and an insurance broker who paid kick backs to former Union President West and Union General Secretary Worley, to a variety of embezzlement, false financial reporting, union bribery, and conspiracy charges. ...
Among the remedial actions to be taken by the law firm pursuant to the deferral of prosecution agreement, the law firm will drop the name of Van Bourg from its title, pay restitution to the Iron Workers Union and an affiliated pension fund, reimburse the U. ... In addition, the law firm has agreed to send a letter to all of its labor union clients advising them of the misconduct of Van Bourg and advising them of the proper reporting requirements for Union expenditures for top Union officers in annual financial disclosure reports to the U. ... Worley and former Iron Workers President Jake West were the subjects of a superceding indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on August 7, 2002, that accused both men of funneling illegal payments to Worley, totaling more than $217,000, from the union pension plan for salary and expenses after Worley retired. ... , pled guilty to 3 counts of bribery via employer payments to a labor union official. ... Of Iron Workers officials Jake West, Leroy Worley and Stephen Cooper to solicit union employers to join ICIP. ... [DOL OLMS 11/13/02]
On August 7, 2002, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Jake West, general president emeritus of the Iron Workers International Union, and LeRoy E. ... The new indictment charges West and Worley with conspiracy, embezzlement from a labor union, aiding and abetting, and embezzlement from an employee pension benefit plan. West and Worley are charged with causing illegal payments to be made to Worley totaling over $217,000 from the union for salary and expenses after Worley retired, and totaling over $37,000 for a pension that Worley was not entitled to receive. ... com - 7/01/02 issue)
The ironworkers union paid legal expenses totaling $1. ... The union also paid for his move to California
IRON WORKERS (IAIW)
International Boss Allegedly Padded Pension
On June 3, the U. ... Worley is one of nine individuals indicted in the federal probe of the union and its related funds. ... Cole, the general secretary of the Intl Assn of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, was secretly indicted last month by a federal grand jury for union embezzlement. ... The indictment alleges that starting in 1992, Cole and others cheated the union by using its money to pay for personal outings and services from restaurants, hotels and golf courses.
Approximate Word count = 3853
Approximate Pages = 15.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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