Have you heard about the union boss who stole $42 million from workers’ dues money? The New York Times reports:
A complaint filed in United States District Court in Manhattan said that since 2002 the woman, Melissa G. King of Irvington, N.Y., had transferred $42 million from three union funds to bank accounts she controlled.
The complaint says that much of the money went toward expenses that appeared to be unrelated to union business, including $7.2 million to American Express, more than $3 million to equestrian businesses and $713,500 to a jewelry business.
Ms. King transferred $500,000 of the money to an E*Trade Securities account, though she was not authorized to invest union money, the complaint says.
In 2020, Johnny Doc was recorded threatening to “beat up,” “run over,” and “put under water” any rank-and-filers who cooperated with federal prosecutors. But he still publicly claims to be all about helping workers!
For years, IBB President Newton Jones and multiple members of the IBB Executive Council have been unabashedly misusing workers’ forced dues. But late this spring they suddenly began accusing each other of wrongdoing!
By lavishly doling out forced-dues-funded “in-kind” support for their favored candidates, crooked union bosses like Marita Crawford (second from left, pictured…