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