BROOKLYN CARPENTERS UNION BOSS TOOK BRIBES FROM "HUNDREDS"OF WORKERS PROSECUTORS SAY AT TRIAL
DIRTY DOUGY AND SAL
The powerful boss of the Brooklyn chapter of the carpenters union took bribes from hundreds of workers — many delivered in cash-stuffed envelopes outside a construction site, a prosecutor charged Tuesday at the start of trial.
Salvatore Tagliaferro, president of Local 926 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in America, faces a two-week trial in Manhattan Federal Court for the alleged admissions-bribery scheme between 2017 and 2019.
“This is a case about old fashioned corruption. About cash-filled envelopes handed over at dawn outside a construction site,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom McKay said, speaking in a courtroom rearranged for social distancing. “The defendant preyed upon hard working people looking for jobs.”
The bribes allegedly began as payments in the hundreds of dollars. By the end, Tagliaferro, 56, was pocketing as much as $2,000 per bribe from people seeking membership in the union, prosecutors say. He earned more than $70,000 total, according to the feds.
Tagliaferro’s attorney, Michael Bachrach, insisted the government’s case depended on a sketchy cooperating witness: John “Cigars” DeFalco, vice president of the union’s Local 157 chapter in Manhattan. DeFalco and Tagliaferro were both charged with the bribery scheme in June 2019. DeFalco has since pleaded guilty to taking bribes, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and illegal sales of prescription drugs and will testify against his union colleague.
“He never told Sal he was taking bribes,” Bachrach said. “Sal was DeFalco’s dupe.”
DeFalco made so much money off of the scheme that he had $150,000 in the attic the day of his arrest, Bachrach said. He allegedly bragged that authorities hadn’t found additional money stored in cinder blocks at his home and in a kitchen cabinet. DeFalco owned a pony, a speedboat and $2 million vacation home while Tagliaferro was pinching pennies, Bachrach said.
McKay said evidence would show the union’s ranks ballooned due to the bribery scheme. But Bachrach indicated that was due to members of the Sandhogs tunnel-digging union seeking carpentry work after the completion of the Second Avenue subway. Evidence at trial will include conversations recorded by a government informant in the legendary Sandhogs, the defense attorney said.
Johnny “Cigars” DeFalco??
LET'S STROLL DOWN THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE ROGUES GALLERY MEMORY LANE
SPEAKING OF LAUGHABLE UBC CHIMPS
STARS OF THE NEW UBC SERIES "THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES"
MICHAEL FORDE
REMEMBER WHEN DIRTY DOUG MCCARRON AND FRANKY "THE CHIMP" SPENCER WORKED SO HARD TO KEEP THIS COKE HEAD AND CRIMINAL IN CHARGE OF THE NEW YORK CITY UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE??
RUMOR HAS IT HE WENT ONE WAY AT THE AIRPORT INTO THE ARMS OF THE FEDS WHILE THE OTHER UBC CRIMINALS SCOOTED OUT THE SIDE DOOR
Secret Den of Vice at union's HQ: Raid Turns Up Stun Gun & Drug Stash
By Brian Kates
Federal agents probing corruption in the city's most powerful construction union seized drugs and an illegal stun gun at the group's Manhattan headquarters, the Daily News has learned.
The discovery at the District Council of Carpenters building came after the indictment of council chief Michael Forde and nine others - including two mob associates - in a $1 million bribery scheme.
Federal agents seized the drugs, said to include quantities of the highly addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, and a stun gun while executing a search warrant Sept. 24, a union spokesman confirmed.
The illicit stash was hidden at the Labor and Technical College, a vast basement workshop at the council's 395 Hudson St. headquarters where apprentices are trained, union sources told The News.
MARIO R WATERS
DEAR FEDS. CAN YOU CONFIRM FOR UBC MEMBERS??
IS THIS THE SAME PERSON??IT CANNOT BE..RIGHT???
MARIO R WATERS GOT BUSTED WITH 2 1/2 KILOS OF COKE AT THE HARBOR TOWN MARINA RESORT HOTEL IN VENTURA CALIFORNIA.HARBOR TOWN MARINA RESORT HOTEL WAS OWNED BY THE UBC. DOUG MCCARRON PERSONALLY WAS PRESIDENT OF HARBOR TOWN MARINA RESORT HOTEL INC.MARIO R WATERS WAS SENTENCED TO 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR THE COKE DEAL
VENTURA : 2 Men Found Guilty of Selling Cocaine
"The complaint said Amaya drove to the Harbortown Marina Resort Hotel in Ventura, where Mario R. Waters, then the hotel’s manager, picked up the cocaine"
"Waters, who faced the same charges as Fernandez and Amaya, pleaded guilty Dec. 21 and has been sentenced to six years in prison"
READ IT HERE
MARIO R WATERS IS LISTED ON THE UBC LM2(UNTIL WE PUT IT IN A PUBLIC FORUM)FROM 2008-2016.IN 2017 NO MARIO ON THE UBC LM2
MARIO WATERS WAS ALSO LISTED AS THE MANGER OF THE UBC OWNED JOBSITE HOSPITALITY.
IS MARIO WATERS STILL ON THE PLACID PAYROLL??
HEY FEDS.WITH THIS HISTORY OF CORRUPTION SHOULD THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE AND DIRTY DOUG MCCARRON"REALLY" BE SELLING DRUGS WITH THE LEVEL CARE SCAM
Doug McCarron and Mario are old buddies back in the cocaine heyday they were thick as thieves along with George Harbaugh all in for the cocaine profit, McCarron was lucky he didn't go to federal prison too. I believe Mario took the rap for Harbaugh and McCarran then once he was out of prison Doug put him on at the international training center. The largest cocaine bust in Ventura county California history!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a coincidence I’ll be happy when this blog exposes more about LU 253 New Jersey home of Spencer Sproule Capelli and yours truly laughenberg and all the executive boards in the state.
ReplyDeleteYOU GOT IT RIGHT IT'S THE SAME MARIO WATERS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
ReplyDeleteThis piece of trash McCarron was born dirty and the fact that he is GP of the UBC, an organisation he has destroyed, is thoroughly disgusting.
ReplyDeleteMike Forde was indicted 2 times prior to charges being filed against him without being fired.
So it goes.....
More sleepless nights Decarlo
ReplyDeleteHey Cuz Isn’t Johnny cigars associated Jamie serritella and Pete gowan
ReplyDeleteSal is a choirboy compared to Doug McCarron let's get that straight
ReplyDeleteGood thing NYDCC has IG and a bunch of ex Feds that couldn’t make it on their own in private practice (similar to our leadership)
ReplyDeleteWho now bring up members on charges for question what their Representatives do or fail to do on their behalf. And pays for the useless IG’s office?? The members.
DeleteThis is a significant reason as to why the NYCDC has list so much market share.
The eastern council does it to sprolles and his ball bag side kick. DUI. Jon Robinson. Pull the same shit more worried about sticking it to our members then market share. Pure trash in leadership !!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteUnion Brother Way
DeleteThe failed new jersey " organizing" for 20 plus years ....was either by design because sleaze ball theives like frank spencer were only concerned about stealing as much as they could and sprinkling money on their families and ball suckers.
DeleteTo expect anything different is a joke. They are a disease that spreads and infects and kills everything they touch. Sproules .. Because he is "in charge" sold his soul. All i can say is if Spencer ever threatened me.... He and all his associates would never find a place to sleep.
Accused Carpenters Union Bribee Tagliaferro In Closing Blames Drug Dealer DeFalco with Dock
ReplyDeletehttp://www.innercitypress.com/sdny9fcrottycarpunionicp042621.html
It is clear McCarron was involved with the cocaine deal at the Harbor Town Marina Hotel. Harbor Town Marina Hotel was owned by the so cal carpenters pension trust fund. Doug McCarron was, and still is the chairman of the so cal pension trust fund. Doug McCarron and the so cal pension fund hired George Harbaugh’s property management company to manage the Harbor Town property, just like other properties, which were owned by the so cal pension fund, such as the Rivera Hotel in Palm Springs.
ReplyDeleteMario Waters worked for Harbaugh’s property management company at the Harbor Town Marina Hotel at the time of the cocaine deal, Water’s arrest, and conviction.
It is easy to conclude McCarron and Harbaugh were involved in the Harbor Town Marina cocaine deal, with Mario Waters taking the rap, and serving the time, to protect Harbaugh and McCarron . . . because once Waters was released from prison, he immediately went to work for Doug McCarron at the International Training Center, as a way for McCarron to payoff Waters for the prison favor.
Does anyone know the correct address to send an election protest to Mccarron? The paperwork I received from olms says to send it to "LADO" even though ubc headquarters are in washington dc.
ReplyDeleteIt should go to the address associated with Gebwral Presidents office in DC UBC.
DeleteWhat is LADO??
ReplyDeleteLMRDA Election Protest and Appeal Summary
ReplyDeleteUnion: Carpenters, IND
Carpenters Building
101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Governing Documents/Provisions:
Section 53 G and I
Section 33 A
Mandatory Pre-Election Protest Provisions: None
Initial Protest: To the General President in writing within 30 days of the date of the
election. Article 33A of the Carpenters Constitution states that the Local Union
President determines all questions regarding eligibility for office. The Union has
advised OLMS that all protests concerning candidate eligibility must first be brought
to the Local Union President (before or after the election) before an appeal can be to
the General President.
Appeals: None. The decision of the General President is final.
NOTE: adquarters are located in Washington,
D.C., the General Counsel, who handles auxiliary contacts, is located in Los Angeles,
California. Consequently, all OLMS election-related leads should be directed to the
LADO.
The information provided is for guidance only and is current as of the date
indicated. Official interpretations should be obtained from the
International/National Union
Any word on the Grand Jury investigation of Team McCarron?? This August will be three years this investigation has been underway, so I hope it leads to charges being filed ASAP.
ReplyDeleteThis just in Sal guilty on 3 counts that’s all I have
ReplyDeleteRemember these are the guys that passed consent decree and were checked out.......
ReplyDeleteWay to go and that only what they know of Blahhh
ReplyDeleteI don’t know but we pay for people who once were in specific agencies of federal law. They are on a UBC salary
ReplyDeleteActing as a compliance officer. That’s legit? They are aware of Jersey spencer mafia and Doug and do nothing?
Our only hope is that the Grand Jury investigating Frank and Co. brings back charges, Laufenberg is forced to squeal, and Johnny Doc decides to do the same now that he’s facing real criminal charges.
ReplyDeleteBut at this pace Doug and Co. will be dead before anything happens.