Lead a Church Assault, Get Off Scot-Free?
Union officials are seemingly prosecutable under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits the use of extortionate threats and violence.
Pennsylvania Mugged by Carpenters Union Toughs
Lawsuit: Racketeering Bilked Taxpayers of ‘More Than $1 Million’ (Click here to download the June 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) Early this year, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted Joseph Dougherty, the former boss of Philadelphia-based Local…
Philadelphia Union Boss Convicted of Extortion
Appeal Based on Controversial 1973 Enmons Decision a Possibility (Source: February 2015 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) On January 20, after several days of deliberations, a federal jury in Pennsylvania convicted…