By KIRSTAN CONLEY
Disgraced carpenter’s union shop steward Michael Brennan was slammed with a five years prison sentence today, despite his shaky-voiced apology to a judge.
“I will strive through acts of contrition to help those less fortunate,” Brennan, 54, the former shop steward of the carpenters union Local 608, groveled to Manhattan Federal Judge Victor Marrero today. “I beg for forgiveness. I stand before you a broken man.”
Brennan, who must surrender to U.S. Marshalls on Feb. 7, has admitted to racketeering after he was accused of embezzling union funds, taking bribes to let contractors hire illegal aliens, and destroying documents as investigators closed in. In addition to his prison time he must pay back $100,000.
He was part of the larger racketeering and bribery scandal that led to the downfall of the coke-snorting ex-chief of District Council of Carpenters, Michael Forde, who has himself been sentenced to 11 years prison for heading a 15-year corruption scheme in which he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors seeking to hire illegal aliens.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Union steward gets five years for racketeering
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DROP DEAD UNITY TEAM!
ReplyDeleteTHEY'RE NOT GONE YET !
ReplyDeleteHow did Scott Danielleson allow him to be the shop steward on every ONPAR job.??????????
ReplyDeleteScrew'em! Hope he gets plenty of vaseline for X-mas, he may need it! What he and his ilk have done to the Rank & File as well as Stewardship as an institution is unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteall i want to say is..... good
ReplyDeletei remember you shoeing women and children off the union float about 10 years ago , i was stopped from laying you out,maybe now you're gonna be ridden' like a float, all the brothers will be singing" c'mon ride the train, we're running a chain c'mon ride the train .i remember that song the choo choo train . pucker up...
ReplyDeletei remember you shoeing women and children off the union float about 10 years ago , i was stopped from laying you out,maybe now you're gonna be ridden' like a float, all the brothers will be singing" c'mon ride the train, we're running a chain c'mon ride the train .i remember that song the choo choo train . pucker up...
ReplyDeletei just hope that after all this bs that we can just get back to work. there are so many guys out of work because of non union workers. we need to take back our work like we did in the 80's. from booda
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