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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
• (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
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• 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
  • Duff indictment coverage Duff  Indictment (HTML) Indictment (PDF) ,DOJ Press release (PDF) 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 
  • Chicago Cop charged in drug case (Sept.22, 2000)
  • 5 Streets and Sanitation workers indicted (Sept.22, 2000)
  • Ex IRS agent linked to mob
• 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

• From the archives- picture of George Dunne with 1989 story. rotate picture via view menu . Give picture time to open.
  
• Added court cases U.S. vs. Gotti,  U.S. vs. Pungitore,  U.S. vs. Infelice,  U.S. vs. Palumbo Brothers,  U.S. vs. Scarfo.  Users are requested to email court decisions to james.mcgough@comcast.net

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