Sunday, October 02, 2005

Indiana: More union corruption

There is corruption taking place at a northwest Indiana carpenters union local. And the leader, make that the former leader of the Indiana Democratic Party, had a hand in it.

Shocking!

From AP:

Dissident members of a troubled carpenters union allege hundreds of thousands of dollars in union dues are missing from a fund it managed, and leaders of the local acknowledged a federal investigation into the matter.

A petition distributed at northwest Indiana work sites calls on the national leadership of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to remove Senior Business Agent Aaron Carlberg and Senior Organizer Carl Lakomek from the Indiana Regional Council of Carpenters "for their culpability in this matter."

The petition appeared as the U.S. Labor Department investigates the local union following its loss of $10 million in the Coffee Creek investment scandal that brought down union trustee Gerry Nannenga and former Indiana Democratic Chairman Peter Manous, among others.


Carlberg told The Times of Munster for a story today that Labor Department officials are investigating allegations that a former union employee stole the money. He denied that he or Lakomek committed any wrongdoing.

You always here the Democrats squealing about Enron, WorldCom, etc. But they're always mum on stories--and there are no shortage of them--about union corruption.

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