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- George Ryan guilty of all 22
racketeering counts Se indictment
- Modified web page to show that James McEnroe was charged but not convicted
in "Wrong Man Murder Case"
- U.S. details
city cover-up see Hired truck
Scandal SEE U.S. Attorney
Santiago Proffer for Sorich
-
GUILTY THUGS SHAME NYPD See
Files on Mob Police
"hitmen"
- Added links to complete
Chicago Tribune coverage of ryan trail including transcripts of closing
arguments
- Added
NYC indictment against Genovese organized crime family which explains
structure and activities of La Cosa Nostra
- Added
superseding indictment against Robert Sorich, Patrick Slattery,
John Sullivan, Timothy McCarthy and Tribune
news
article
- Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass explains
the Game of Clout as played in Chicago and Illinois
- Jack P. Cerone is big Pittsburgh
Brewing Investor More trouble for
Jack collecting his bills
- Updated docket to U.S. vs.
Calabrese et al with hyperlinks to court documents. Attempting to obtain
funding to web publish on daily basis transcripts of trial testimony and
exhibits.
- James Laski indictment,
DOJ Press release,
and Sam Gammicchia complaint
See Indictments as well
- FBI hard work results in capture of
fugitives Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo and Frank
Schweihs
See CBS
Video interview with Illinois Police & Sheriff's editor-investigative
reporter Jim McGough (pronounced like McGoff)
- List of recommended books to read about La Cosa
Nostra, Unions, labor racketeering
- Ex-board official indicted
over Aleman parole vote
- Published Teamster IRB charges
against Local 714 Robert Riley and newspaper articles
- Updated information on individuals labeled
characters
- Updated docket to Mob Hits
with hyperlinks to court documents, published wanted posters for Joseph
Lombardo, Sr. and
FRANCIS (Frank) JOHN SCHWEIHS
- Update on
Riggers
union and DOL law suit
Chao v. Linder et al
1:05-cv-03812 (NDIL)
- Mikva
Recommendations to the Illinois Gaming Board In the Matter of Emerald
Casino, Revocation of License Proceeding See Rosemont
files See
complaint
- Published Sun Times Article
summarizing status of
"Hired truck-City Scandal"
- Indictment
of "Scooter" Libby and DOJ
Press release
- Pension
probe's spotlight widens (See
Levine Files)
- Email on tips
for organized crime connections to "Hired truck Scandal"
- City
Hall clout helps 3 get trucker licenses shows connections between
"Outfit" and Streets & Sanitation
- Surviving
Chicago's sex slave trade Organized crime's growing racket
- Lawyer Michael
Ficaro files suit against legal foes
- Daley ordered to give
deposition Send questions you would like Daley to answer to
Jim McGough for web publication
- Chicago Park District
Indictment and related articles
- Levine Indictment and newspaper articles
- Rosemont mayor
Stephens wants to be called as witness
- Ex-Emerald Casino
attorney Ficaro files libel suit over mob allegations
- City Hall gets a monitor,
Torres gets 2 years
, Levine receives second
indictment
- Added Docket
for USA vs Tomczak et al and instructions on how to obtain court
documents from U.S. District Court via
Pacer for publication on this
site
- Added plea agreements
entered in Hired Truck Scandal and Daily Herald article on
Mob in the burbs
- Added Nevada DOJ press
release on indictment against D'Apice (Crazy Horse)
- Brutal mobster Infelise dies in
prison at 82
- Published U.S.
DOJ Press Release on charges against City of Chicago Officials Sorich
and Slattery See Files
- Respected FBI agent John Mallul says
Stephens met with mob,
discrediting Wacks paid for affidavit See
Rosemont for full story
- Hiring Hall scandal in
office next to Mayor's office FBI Sorich affidavit and Slattery Affidavit
( HTML)
- Laborers for JUSTICE
joins search to finance union election challenges Mug shots of Lombardo
and Schweihs
- FBI on defensive about fugitives
Lombardo and Schweihs
- Published McDonald Report
whitewashing the Stier Report on Teamster
Corruption; PDF version
- Miami Herald articles on
Ex-FBI agent Connolly
being indicted for murder and
article on
ineffectiveness of $20,000 reward for Joseph Lombardo, $480,000 less
than being offered for Whitey Bulger
- Published U.S. Rico complaint a against
International Longshoremen's Association and La Cosa Nostra ,
- Scanned and web published
confidential 307 page
report by Teamster Project RISE Director Edwin Stier on organized crime
influence in Teamster union, lack of good faith by IBT James Hoffa in
eliminating corruption from Teamsters, and corruption in City of Chicago
Hired Truck Program and Streets & Sanitation. This report was and has
been the basis of excellent investigative reporting by Sun Times
reporters and Chicago Tribune reporters. It is considered must reading by
our "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" Mayor Richard M. Daley. This
copyrighted report is not to be web published by the uneducated,
unsophisticated webmaster of laborers.org who steals copies of hard to
obtain documents and publishes them in mutilated form on his web site and
who removes from Chicago Crime Commission reports the names of
members/associates without permission or authorization. (See
removal of John Crededio
name from copy of CCC chart published without permission on
www.laborers.com
- Published list of
Individuals removed from Teamsters Union by Court Monitor and those
removed by
Independent Review Board and Independent Investigator through May 2005
to hyperlink with Confidential Stier Report on Organized Crime
Influence in Chicagoland Teamster entities, soon to be published on this
site as a service to public and as an educational tool for current Mayor
Richard Daley. See Teamsters
- Fax
cover letter to Chicago FBI on failure of eliminating corruption from
Laborers and Teamsters Unions See candidates nominated for office in
laborers Local 1001 as organized crime regains control through guaranteed
election of Chianelli, whose appointment as a business agent LIUNA Inspector
General Gow foolishly approved. he told me not to worry, that it was just a
provisional appointment. Doesn't Gow realize he gave Chianelli the
overwhelming advantage of incumbency and six months to shake every member's
hand and to be political. Is it incompetence or are mistakes LIUNA makes
deliberate?
- City's
cleanup program a mess
- Background on
HDO
(Hispanic Democratic organization)
- Published Criminal
Complaints against George Prado, Joseph Cortez, Sandra Stewart, Nora
Rivas, and Alexander Millan with FBI affidavits to justify wiretaps and
search warrants,
-
Criminal Complaint against Sandra Stewart
- DOJ Press
Release on City of Chicago heroin distribution ring
- Published link to Amazon for readers
to buy The Mob's Guys by Antonio Napoli. See
email to
reporters on link between Hired Truck Scandal and Heroin selling by City
of Chicago Employees .See
Criminal Complaint against George Prado et al and affidavit of FBI
special agent Frank Jack Sodetz III
- Updated hired Truck Scandal
files with indictment of city employees selling heroin
DOJ press release and
Tribune
article
- Banker Suspenzi
mute at Emerald casino hearings
- Added Second superseding
Indictment against
Frank Calabrese et al and
newspaper articles
- FBI memos say people
linked to Emerald investors had mob ties
- Are the mobsters
gone from the SouthLand? (Chicago Heights) CrimeDawg thinks not
- Miami Herald Interview
of John J. Flood on hard -to-locate Florida resident, Frank Schweihs
- See article about John Flood testimony against
Frank Schweihs
- Judge to
Lombardo: No deal on Lombardo
handwritten, disingenuous
letter to judge seeking terms of surrender. See Sun-Times story
The Clown' reaches out
- Updated info on Hired Truck
scandal, published plea agreement of Wesolowski and related articles
- Published court
docket for mob case and related court documents on file through April
28, 2005. Iif you would like to see transcripts of court
proceedings and FBI affidavits etc. web published on this site, let
webmaster know.
- Stories on Mob Indictments
- Tribune
story about FBI affidavit on Spilotro murders where reporter
O'Connor indicates Laborers
booted
Matassa out of union
- Affidavit of Jack O'Rourke on John
Matassa, Jr being a made member
so Laborers International Union could barr him and any other individuals who
are La Cosa Nostra members/ associates from membership in Laborers Union.
Decision of
Laborers Independent Hearing Officer barring Matassa from Laborers
International Union of North America (LIUNA)
- Arrests burn
Chicago mob and other
stories on major mob indictment
- Added news stories from Chicago
Tribune and Chicago Sun-times on mob indictments with background
- Major Indictment of
Chicago Outfit Bosses Joseph "the Clown " Lombardo et al
April 25, 2005
- Chicago "Outfit" invests in
offshore casino owned by Indian Tribe to avoid scrutiny. This is a crime
in progress just like the Rincon Indian
reservation gambling venture (DiFronzo) and Casino.
-
Gambino family needs new leader
- Added miscellaneous files used for
background research and previously unlinked files
- Added
indictment of Gambino Mob Boss Squitieri and related news articles
- Added Indictment
and news articles about NYPD Detectives Caracappa and Eppolito who are
accused of being "Mob Police"
- Son of
mob boss working with feds
- Published Superseding
Indictments against Tomczak , indictments against Stillo, Laino and
related newspaper articles on expanding Hired truck scandal that results
from appointments influenced by Pat Marcy and alderman Roti
- Published DOJ press release and Criminal Indictment of Commander Michael
J. Acosta (Hired Truck Scandal)
- If you would like to receive indictments from U.S Attorneys either
seconds after they are released to the press or would like to hear the
indictment and press release read to you over satellite radio, contact U.S.
Attorney Peter Fitzgerald and urge him to hire CrimeDawg so he can continue
web publishing items of interest and pay his rent in the process.
- Published html version of
Criminal Complaint
against Four Chicago Police Officers
PDF File of
faxed document that is now editable (540 kb)
- Published FBI
press release on arrest of four Chicago Police officers in drug
conspiracy
- Published DOJ press release
(PDF file) and
indictment (PDF File)
on hired truck indictments of
"Quarters" Boyle and Torres. More to follow as more city departments are
being investigated. See newspaper articles
- Published docket for USA vs Duff, being
prosecuted by AUSA Buvinger while supposedly monitoring Laborers reform.
See Duff story Updated
Hired truck Scandal
- Published
Tribune article on unsolved mob hits being aggressively investigated by
federal grand jury. watch for indictments against Hanhardt, Lombardo, Se
testimony on
Spilotro murders by Albert Tocco, Dominick Palermo, Albert "Chickie
Roviero, and Nicholas Guzzino
- Published
Teamster IRB proposed trusteeship over Hogan's Teamster local 714, an
expose of nepotism that continues today (PDF Image File-2
megabytes)
- Articles on
arrest of notorious La Cosa Nostra New England Organized crime family
member, Matthew L. Gugleilmetti, member of Laborers Union and search
of offices of Coia & lePore and Laborers International Office in Providence
, Rhode Island.
- Laborers IHO Vaira
orders
investigation by FBI, N.J. Attorney General, LIUNA IG Agents into
massive fraud on New Jersey
Local 734 and sets
standards for fiduciary duties of trustees of union pension and welfare
funds. See Possley
article.
- AUSA David Buvinger
obtains guilty plea from James Duff
- Sun-Times labor-crime reporter
Herguth reports
on Teamster Hogan
- Duff pleads guilty in
contract fraud
- Published
RICO Trusteeships After Twenty Years: A Progress Report by Professor
James Jacobs which covers th successful reforms of the Teamsters and the
unsuccessful, failed RICO trusteeships against the Laborers
- Published
LIUNA IHO Vaira's final Order in the emergency trusteeship of
Laborers local 734 for being under the influence of organized crime
See
Maurice Possley article
- Published html version of U.S.
DOJ evidentiary Proffer against George Ryan
- James Duff attempts
to plead guilty
- Eugene DeLuca, Outfit hit
man on trial for murder in Pittsburgh
- U.S. Proffer against George Ryan and
related press stories 1-05-2005
- Joe Griffin, former special agent in
charge FBI Cleveland office-organized crime fighter and LIUNA Inspector
General agent, dies: Wake Sunday, 1-09-2005, 3pm-9pm. Arrangements are by Nelson Funeral Home of Park Ridge.
820 Talcott Road Park Ridge, IL
Directions Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Mary Seat of Wisdom
Catholic Church, 920 Granville Ave., Park Ridge, Ill.
- Water Department Indictments
(12/16/2004)
- Updated information on the Duffs, web
published DOJ
press release on Stillo arrest and amended criminal complaint in City of
Chicago Hired
Truck Program Scandal
- Tribune and
Sun-Times articles on
Wacks affidavit regarding Stephens
- Peter J.Wacks
Affidavit re: Rosemont Mayor Donald Stephens connections to organized crime
( La Cosa Nostra)
- Updated information on Rosemont,
Boscarino,
Emerald Casino
Disciplinary Complaint
- Added
Settlement Agreement of Joseph Lombardo, jr and Court Monitor's Final
report to Court PDF File
- Added DOJ
press releases and indictments of Near North Insurance Brokerage
executive, Michael Segal
- John J. Flood agrees with article U.S. in
a Quagmire over failed drug policies
-
Congresswoman Schakowsky’s husband indictedMarch 11, 2004
- Damicos to infiltrate Illinois
politics. See
Tribune article on Laurino relative-March 11, 2004
- Updated information on Laborers Local
1001 (Streets & Sanitation) trusteeship, pension fraud, and reform
fiasco in Laborers Union
- Republished info on Zonis for info on unsolved
murder cases under investigation
-
BNA reports on Local 1001 Trusteeship complaint against Laborers local
1001
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(Chicago Streets & Sanitation). GEB Attorney Luskin has to have a
trusteeship imposed before August 2004 election at Chicago Laborers District
Council so 1001 delegates can't vote or run for office.
- Trusteeship complaint against Chicago
Laborers local 1001 (Streets & Sanitation) for being under the influence
and control of organized crime (The "Outfit").
New "outfit" associates identified.
Background and
predictions by CrimeDog on how the purported reformers will profit by
this trusteeship.
- Indictment and
coverage of Labor racketeering charges against Projectionist Local Union 110
members and associates
- Chicago Laborers District Council letter regarding jurisdictional dispute
with Teamsters 703 and Operating Engineers 150 over organizing landscape
employees (PDF File)
and the same two
letters as jpeg images in an HTML file
- DOJ press release,
(html) or (
PDF file ) on Steven J Flemmi guilty plea agreement (PDF
file 1.meg)
- Added Consent decree against
Hugh Arnold and recent failed
lawsuit against Hugh Arnold by Laborers Pension Fund Trustees (Frank
Riley ( local 96 ) et al.(PDF
File version of lawsuit) added HTML
version of Laborers Law suit against Arnold for defrauding the funds
- IHO
decision finding Laborers Local 2 Executive Board members guilty
of depriving McGough of LMRDA rights. See background of corrupt Laborers
local 2 and see how this decision proves that reform in the Laborers
Union is a farce, a fraud, and a sham.
- DOL-OLMS issues new
regulations on Labor Management reports (PDF file) (LM-2s, Lm-3s etc)
that will have to be filed in 2005. Laborers for JUSTICE lobbied DOL,
Congress, and DOJ for six years to provide a public version of
the Labor Management Reporting System Jim McGough developed to assist those
responsible for prosecuting and investigating corruption in the Laborers
Union. Revisions
-
- Questions on loss on sale of U.S. security in James Duff's local. Added LM-2s
for local 3 for years 2002,
2001, 2000
in PDF format. Added Page
7 of 2002 LM-2 showing $40,000 loss.
- Tribune article on Duff
Indictment
-
Hansen gets 200 years in
1955 slayings of Peterson and Schuessler boys (See Silas
Jayne article)
-
Spano and Giglio cut deal to attend weddings, tapes proving organized
crime influence in Cicero not played
- Loren-Maltese
to forfeit millions. Cicero golf
course for sale in Wisconsin. Tribune reports
on jury deliberations
- Mobologist Possley quotes Jack
O'Rourke and Wayne Johnson on Cicero
- Suntimes
"CRIME SPECIALS" enhanced
- "Ding
Dong, the Witch is dead!!" says Laborers for JUSTICE member and
political nemesis of Boss Betty
- Loren_Maltese, Spano and 5
others guilty of racketeering
- SunTimes publishes frontpage article
on New "Outfit"
- Sun Times adds "CRIME
INC" to web site
- Added Court decisions involving
organized crime.
- Added decision imposing
supervision over Pittsburgh Laborers local 1058 to show how influence
of organized crime remains via the sons and relatives of known organized
crime members
- "Vrdolyak" judge gets the
maximum, Eddie gets worried
- Movie on "Irish Mobsters" (other
than politicians)
- U.S. vs. Betty Loren-Maltese day 978
- Gambino Indictment (HTML) and as PDF
file
- Background on Silas and George Jayne feud,
and the Peterson, Schuessler murders
- John Gotti dead
at 61
- DOJ Press Release and indictment
of Gambino crime family members (PDF files)
- Cicero Trial of Crime Boss Spano and puppet
Betty Lorne-Maltese updates
- Opinion and Decision
barring William T Hogan and Dane Passo from Teamsters
- William
Hogan and Dane Passo barred for life from Teamsters
- Indictments against
members of N.Y. Laborers Local 91( Quarcini et al.)
- Ex-FBI agent John
Connolly guilty-New England Crime family background
- Whitey
Bulger background and stories
- Cicero mob
insurance scam trial begins-Betty Loren Maltese and Cicero Mob boss Michael
Spano (Caravetta friends) on trial. Pictures of perps
- Added Laborers local 2 Supervision
information and transcripts from
Chicago Laborers District Council Trusteeship hearings
- Hanhardt trial updates.
Sentencing due May 2, 2002
- Jim Thompson (the fox) to investigate
Ullico (the chicken coop) AFL-CIO scandal
- Organized crime crushes legitimate church
bingo programs with $3 million scam
- Articles about
convicted congressman, mobster James Traficant
- Published charges
against Teamster scoundrels William T Hogan and Dane Passo
- Sun Times
publishes crime special on Billion Dollar Chicagoland Illegal drug industry
- Added Fawell indictment
(html) and pdf and
stories
- Mobster and former
Laborers Serpico sentencing insufficient see related
stories
- Richard
Caravetta resigns as business manager of Laborers local 2 after McGough
accuses him of being a mob puppet (settlement
agreement)
- 2 plead guilty in selling of park police badges
- Coverage of John Serpico's
conviction
- Deposition of Superintendent Hillard in Ryan Harris murder case
- Coverage
of racketeers Betty Loren-Maltese, Spano et al with pictures
- Betty
Loren-Maltese Indictment (html) Newspaper
articles
- DOJ
press release on Betty Lorne-Maltese, Michael Spano, Sr., Michael Spano, Jr.
indictments for racketeering and fraud Scheme to loot Cicero Treasury of
millions in insurance money.
- Loren-Maltese
indictment (PDF file 2.4meg)
(SunTimes)
( Chicago Tribune)
(Associated
Press)
- Betty Loren Maltese
"Makeup" fund to be further depleted
- Niebur
law suit against Betty Loren-Maltese and political supporter Richard
Ricky Caravetta
- Spano, Volpe,
Schullo, Ross, and Inendino Indictments (Cicero)
- Gaming Board pulls casino license
for Rosemont, citing organized crime involvement
- Betty Loren Maltese advisor, Ricky Caravetta, seeks election as
business manager in Matassa's Laborers' local 2
- Organized crime seeks to regain control of Laborers Local 2. Check out candidates and
report back.
- Published Ron Carey Indictment
- Decision barring Bruno Caruso, Leo Caruso and Frank Caruso from Laborers
Union for being members of organized crime.
- Chicago Magazine, 30th Anniversary issue on
the state of organized crime (the Outfit) in Chicagoland with analysis and
observations by organized crime experts John J. Flood and Wayne Johnson.
- Indictment of Frank Zeuberis, former
business manager of Laborers Local 5 and Palermo
gofer in Chicago Heights ,Il
- DOJ
Decavalcante Indictment and Press release
- Centracchio Court case
- Indictments Bauer
- L.A. Police Union Calls
for Civilian Oversight (10-06-2000)
- Fred
Dumke meets with the Oak Lawn chapter of the Combined Counties Police
Association. Seated: John J. Flood, president of CCPA; Fred Dumke, mayor;
Robert Foster, secretary/treasurer of Oak Lawn Chapter; Standing: Terry
Vorderer, vice president of Oak Lawn Chapter; Jim Zieler, president of Oak
Lawn Chapter. ]
- Chicago Police
Department adds crime reporting information to citizens
- NEW STRATEGIES NEEDED TO SOLVE GANG PROBLEMS - Experts are realizing that
the traditional law enforcement approach to gangs does not work. The federal
Department of Justice is funding projects throughout the country, based on a
promising gang program in Chicago that uses community organizations,
employment agencies, schools and law enforcement for prevention, intervention
and suppression. http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/gangside18.htm
For more on COPS, Community Oriented Policing Services of the U.S. Department
of
Justice, see: http://www.usdoj.gov/cops/gpa/grant_prog/anti_gang/default.htm
- Chicago Tribune articles
- 56 count Indictment by Manhattan
District Attorney Morgenthau against organized crime and corrupt officials in
the Carpenters and Laborers unions
- Added ERISA lawsuit by Laborers
Union against Hugh Arnold of Arnold and Kadjan. Hugh was counsel to the
Laborers Welfare and Pension funds before he resigned, and remains as
counsel to the pension funds of The Finishers Union, the Painters union and
probably other Unions reputed to be under the influence and control of
organized crime.
- Added indictments against Anthony
Centracchio, Thomas Tucker, Robert Urbinati, Robert Natale (Operation
Safebet)
- Added Manhattan District Attorney press release on organized crime, labor
racketeering indictment of 38 individuals and 11 companies
- Linked to Projo article on new book about
Irish Mob, Whitey Bulger, and the FBI.
- Published Dickerson
v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court case affirming constitutionality of
Miranda and court's authority to overrule congress when it passes
unconstitutional laws.
- Published Press
release of U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, that lists all
defendants in massive securities fraud case
- Published some names of 120 defendants
- Published today's
news articles on "massive securities fraud indictments" unsealed
today by
- NY U.S. Attorney, Mary Jo White and pleaded with her office to give me
electronic version so I could web publish the indictment for you to read
with hyperlinks to articles describing the indictees. Call Mary Jo at
212-637-2200 and tell her you want to see the indictment on the internet-on
this site.
- Latest
news and complete coverage of Ryan's license scam courtesy of Chicago
Tribune
- Added Bauer indictment
(searchable)
- Added to John J Flood biography
- Will start adding digests
of recent Supreme court opinions with link to actual decisions in PDF
- Added Chart of New York Mob
Families 1930-1972
- Added Duff Police report as PDF file
for viewing with Acrobat reader
- A revisit to the past with John J. Flood and Mayor Daley on police unions
- Added Book review of Truth At Any Cost,
the inside story of Starr's investigation of Clinton
- Updated Moblinks and added some very
interesting links to web sites on the Mafia and organized crime.
- History of Organized Crime-The "Mafia, La Cosa Nostra (LCN)
per Peter
Vaira- The Laborers' International Hearing Officer and author with Bill
Roemer of the "Secret FBI report" that led, among other things to
the development of Organized Crime Strike Task Forces in the 80's
- Flood was right in 1994 and he is right again now
as the Chicago Police Contract comes up for renewal.
- The Structure of Organized Crime in
Chicago- affidavit of John O'Rourke, ex FBI agent-organized crime expert
witness
- Update on the Duffs. The arrest record
of Duff can be viewed by clicking here
and downloading an efax file. The free viewer and software can be obtained
from www.efax.com
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