NOW LETS HOPE THE EBSA IS AFRAID OF ALL THE RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE EXPOSING THEIR SELL OUT TO SCUM LIKE THE UBC AND IS AS COOPERATIVE
!!!!BALLANTYNE TOOK THE CASH!!!!
WAS IT REALLY $6.3 MILLION!!!
"The case was amicably resolved.Ballantynes Lawyer refused to discuss the"
!!!SIZE OF THE SETTLEMENT!!!
Jan 27,2019
Dear Pollitico,
How about a follow up on Ryan Hutchins story."Lawsuit: Carpenters union
leader fired for revealing ‘self-dealing and corruption" The UBC got
the Judge to give them until Jan 20,2019 to respond to the allegations.
On Jan 11,2019 the "Parties agreed to dismiss" So did Ballantyne get
money or did the UBC have more dirt on him than he had on them.The
allegations were quite serious.Anybody willing to ask Ballantyne why he
would agree to dismiss. Want to bet he signed a non disclosure
agreement...
HEY DOUGY
GUESS WHO???
GUESS WHO???
CARPENTERS SETTLE WITH UNION LEADER WHO ALLEGED FIRING WAS FOR WHISTLE BLOWING
Ryan Hutchins 1/30/2019
A former high-ranking official in the powerful Northeast Regional
Council of Carpenters has settled a lawsuit in which he alleged he was
fired after uncovering malfeasance that had the blessing of some of the
international union's top leaders.
The complaint, filed in New Jersey Superior Court in October by John Ballantyne and two other former union employees, was dismissed with prejudice earlier this month after the union and the plaintiffs came to an agreement, court records show.
Nancy Erika Smith, a prominent civil rights and employment lawyer who filed the suit, said Wednesday the case had been "amicably resolved." She declined to disclose the size of the settlement or discuss other details.
Ballantyne alleged the United Brotherhood of Carpenters dissolved the local council in May as cover to get rid of him and his subordinates. Ballantyne was joined in the suit by Robert Weakley, who served as the regional council's director of human resources, and Laura Czarneski, Ballantyne's longtime assistant.
The explosive claims opened a window into an internal squabble that has roiled the Carpenters, one of the most influential and deep-pocketed trades unions in the region.
Ballantyne, who was the council's executive secretary-treasurer, claims to have discovered a long list of items that constitute "self-dealing and corruption." The allegations ranged from payment to family members of a union official for no-show jobs, a "ghost" consulting contract worth $402,000 per year, the use of employees to build dining room furniture, hidden raises, and six-figure "overpayments" into two of the defendants' annuity funds.
Some of the activity, the suit alleged, was intentionally hidden from trustees and, in some cases, from Douglas McCarron, the international union's general president and one of the defendants named. Also named as defendants were Frank Spencer, the second general vice president of the union, and Michael Capelli, the Eastern District vice president.
An attorney representing the union did not respond to a request for comment. The international union, and its lawyers in Washington, also did not respond to a request for comment when the lawsuit was first filed.
The complaint also leveled charges against numerous people not named as defendants, one of whom — Tricia Mueller, the former political director of the Northeast Council — flatly denied the allegations. Mueller said in a statement in October that she was "extraordinarily shocked to read the many false allegations against me included in Mr. Ballantyne's court filing."
"I am also deeply saddened that Mr. Ballantyne, whom I considered to be a friend and colleague for nearly twenty years, would drag me through the mud baselessly as a way to gain revenge against others he alleges wronged him," Mueller stated. "It is a shame that he would choose to hurl scurrilous accusations after the end of our nearly two-decade productive professional relationship."
There is still an ongoing federal lawsuit filed by George F. Laufenberg, whom Ballantyne fired from his job overseeing the pension fund of the regional council over what was said at the time to be "potential violations" of federal securities law. Ballantyne alleged his own firing was retaliation for removing Laufenberg.
Laufenberg said in 2017 that the union had backed off the claim he may have violated securities laws, and he characterized the firing as a "contractual issue."
The complaint, filed in New Jersey Superior Court in October by John Ballantyne and two other former union employees, was dismissed with prejudice earlier this month after the union and the plaintiffs came to an agreement, court records show.
Nancy Erika Smith, a prominent civil rights and employment lawyer who filed the suit, said Wednesday the case had been "amicably resolved." She declined to disclose the size of the settlement or discuss other details.
Ballantyne alleged the United Brotherhood of Carpenters dissolved the local council in May as cover to get rid of him and his subordinates. Ballantyne was joined in the suit by Robert Weakley, who served as the regional council's director of human resources, and Laura Czarneski, Ballantyne's longtime assistant.
The explosive claims opened a window into an internal squabble that has roiled the Carpenters, one of the most influential and deep-pocketed trades unions in the region.
Ballantyne, who was the council's executive secretary-treasurer, claims to have discovered a long list of items that constitute "self-dealing and corruption." The allegations ranged from payment to family members of a union official for no-show jobs, a "ghost" consulting contract worth $402,000 per year, the use of employees to build dining room furniture, hidden raises, and six-figure "overpayments" into two of the defendants' annuity funds.
Some of the activity, the suit alleged, was intentionally hidden from trustees and, in some cases, from Douglas McCarron, the international union's general president and one of the defendants named. Also named as defendants were Frank Spencer, the second general vice president of the union, and Michael Capelli, the Eastern District vice president.
An attorney representing the union did not respond to a request for comment. The international union, and its lawyers in Washington, also did not respond to a request for comment when the lawsuit was first filed.
The complaint also leveled charges against numerous people not named as defendants, one of whom — Tricia Mueller, the former political director of the Northeast Council — flatly denied the allegations. Mueller said in a statement in October that she was "extraordinarily shocked to read the many false allegations against me included in Mr. Ballantyne's court filing."
"I am also deeply saddened that Mr. Ballantyne, whom I considered to be a friend and colleague for nearly twenty years, would drag me through the mud baselessly as a way to gain revenge against others he alleges wronged him," Mueller stated. "It is a shame that he would choose to hurl scurrilous accusations after the end of our nearly two-decade productive professional relationship."
There is still an ongoing federal lawsuit filed by George F. Laufenberg, whom Ballantyne fired from his job overseeing the pension fund of the regional council over what was said at the time to be "potential violations" of federal securities law. Ballantyne alleged his own firing was retaliation for removing Laufenberg.
Laufenberg said in 2017 that the union had backed off the claim he may have violated securities laws, and he characterized the firing as a "contractual issue."
"UNCOVERING MALFEASANCE THAT HAD THE BLESSING OF THE INTERNATIONALS
UNIONS TOP LEADERS"....
"BALLANTYNE claims to have discovered a long list of self dealing and corruption."
"Payments to family members for no show jobs".(TRUE).
"Ghost consulting contract worth $402,000".(You can lie all you want Mueller but your dealings with the UBC are well documented)
"BALLANTYNE claims to have discovered a long list of self dealing and corruption."
"Payments to family members for no show jobs".(TRUE).
"Ghost consulting contract worth $402,000".(You can lie all you want Mueller but your dealings with the UBC are well documented)
6 comments:
A Reliable source claims it was $6.3 million to settle
i don't blame him anybody ive seen try to stand up to the ubcj has been crushed and broken while members who ignore or aid the corruption are given great paying jobs so you decide broken and forgotten with nobody the better for it or quite wealthy people who believes crime don't pay lived in a very different time
To pay a $6 million payoff, McCarron, Spencer, Capelli and DeCarlo were frightened. Nondisclosure agreement or not, the allegations must be true. If not, why the payoff? Don’t kid yourself, McCarron knew what was going on the whole time. McCarron is just as crooked as Spencer and Capelli, if not more.
MORE DUES MONEY WASTED
Hmmm. The same 6 million they directly stole from philly locals ( some as old as 135 years) the 6 mill that capelli forgot to list on him lms?
Mueller. She is the connection to john dougherty and the 750k. Through marita crawford .
Both women ran the pacs.
They know who took what .
Mueller is a paid liar ..a spinmaster .Keep that in mind .
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