Saturday, August 8, 2009

Carpenter's make FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending August 7, 2009

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1. Washington Field Office: Former Congressman William J. Jefferson Found Guilty After hearing evidence for more than ...
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On Par files $100 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against NYCDC

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Here it is for your reading pleasure; members have been emailing me requesting that I re-post the On Par lawsuit (read below) which was ori...
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Fugitive Contractor Returns From Hiding to Testify Against Carpenter Boss Michael Forde

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by Brian Kates Daily News Staff Writer Michael Forde may not be so pleased when he finds out that James Murray may be comi...

Culture of Corruption: Forde and His Team of Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

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Wednesday August 5, 2009, federal authorities charged New York carpenters union leader Michael J. Forde, seven other union officials, a cont...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Forde Associate Indicted

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BY MICHAEL GARTLAND The Record Finbar O’Neill, a developer connected with the Soldier Hill tract in Paramus, has been indicted...

Tainted Carpenters Union Boss Michael Forde still fave with Pols

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BY Benjamin Lesser and Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Six weeks ago, carpenters union head Michael Forde gave Mayor Bloomberg a warm...

Position Is Uncertain for Indicted Leader of Carpenters’ Union

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By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM On Thursday, a day after his indictment on federal racketeering and bribery charges, Michael J. Forde, the he...

Pocono Residents Named in NYC Union Corruption Indictment

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NEW YORK – Two men who reside in the Poconos are named in an a federal indictment charging the head of the Carpenters Union District Council...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Carpenter Bigs Nailed for Bribes

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BY Barbara Ross and Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Carpenters’ Union Chief and 9 Others Indicted in Corruption Inquiry

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By William K. Rashbaum Nearly two decades after the federal authorities moved against New York City’s carpenters’ union to loosen the mob’...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Carpenters Turn Up the Volume Atlantic Yards

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The public hearing Wednesday afternoon on the proposed revisions to the Atlantic Yards project plan was prefaced with a protest staged by D...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Union Pensions in the Red

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Labor chiefs are doing better than the workers . We’ve all read about underfunded corporate pensions, but here’s an unreported story: Union ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

N.Y. Labor Leaders May Drop Support of Paterson

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By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Leaders of some of New York’s most influential unions are discussing abandoning Gov. David A. Paterson as ...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Carpenters Union Agrees on Pay Cuts

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by Matthew Schuerman NEW YORK, NY June 26, 2009 —Thousands of the city's unionized construction workers have agreed to accept lower wage...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

CARPENTERS UNION ENDORSES BLOOMBERG FOR MAYOR

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Looks like they're coming out of the woodwork to support Mayor Bloomberg. The New York City District Council of Carpenters, which ha...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Judge Finds District Council in Contempt - Request System Abolished

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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, as follows: 1. The District Council and Peter Thomassen, its president, are adj...
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Friday, May 8, 2009

Union Members Don’t Even Trust Union

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by Publius The New York City carpenters union has been in trouble with the law for many decades. Organized-crime has been endemic with the ...