NYC CARPENTERS UNION OFFICIAL WHO FLIPPED TO FEDS IN MEMBERSHIP SCAM GETS NO JAIL TIME
MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN
A former city carpenters union leader cut himself a sweet, jail-free deal by cooperating with the feds to bring down a bribery scam that inflated the union’s ranks and lined his pockets.
John “Cigars” DeFalco won’t spend any time behind bars, but has to pay almost $150,000 in restitution, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Crotty ordered on Tuesday.
DeFalco, former vice president of the Manhattan chapter of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in America, flipped on Salvatore Tagliaferro, the ex president of the union’s Brooklyn chapter — when he pleaded guilty to conspiracy, honest services wire fraud, and other charges in October 2020.
DeFalco identified targets — wannabe union members — and took bribes from them, usually valued at around $1,500, and then passed their applications on to Tagliaferro, who accepted the victims into his local.
The feds caught on when an unusually high number of people joined the union. Most of the new members could not join as they were not employed by companies eligible for union membership. The carpenters would have to provide proof of employment and other paperwork, but DeFalco didn’t request it.
More than half of the new members Tagliaferro and DeFalco accepted applications and payments from didn’t clock a minute on the job.
Prosecutors estimated the pair made more than $296,000 in the scam. Federal agents found $150,000 in cash in Ziploc bags in the attic of his vacation house just before he was indicted.
The union chief was charged in June 2019 with Tagliaferro and cooperated with the feds in a successful bid to lower a possible prison sentence.
Tagliaferro was convicted of conspiracy, conversion of union assets, and honest services wire fraud after a week long trial in April 2021. He received a five-year prison term for accepting more than $70,000 in bribes from carpenters looking for work.
In court, Tagliaferro tried to pin the whole thing on DeFalco, who his lawyer argued was a “hardcore criminal” who duped him.
But DeFalco’s family and friends painted a different picture. Three members of law enforcement vouched for him and requested leniency from Judge Crotty.
Belleville, N.J. Police Sgt. Angelo Quinn said DeFalco has a “huge respect for the law.”
“I have also been involved in two shootings, one in which I had to take another man’s life,” Quinn wrote in a letter to Crotty. “John DeFalco spent countless days in my living room talking me through the lowest points in my career and honestly my life.”
DeFalco’s lawyer said he client is pleased with the outcome.
“John is happy to avoid prison,” attorney Jeffrey Lichtman told the Daily News.
MAN DOUGY AND FRANKIE MUST BE PISSED
THREE MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VOUCHED FOR JOHN CIGARS
"JOHNNY HAD A HUGE RESPECT FOR THE LAW"
HE WAS THE MOST RESPECTFUL OXYCODONE DEALER WE KNEW
HEY BEVIS MCGORTY
THERE ARE QUITE A FEW REDACTED PAGES HERE
ARE YOU SURE YOU AND JUDGE JUDY DONT WANT TO GO BACK TO THE CONSENT JUDGE AND REVISE THOSE BS STORIES ABOUT THE NYC COUNCIL NOT BEING CORRUPT AND READY TO HAND BACK OVER TO MCCARRON AND THE UBC INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL SYNDICATE
MAY NOT LOOK TO GOOD FOR THAT UAW MONITOR JOB IF THE FEDS SHOW UP AT THE NYC COUNCIL WITH HAND CUFFS
THAT UAW GRASS WILL NOT BE GREENER
YOU MAY BE MOWING DIRT
16 comments:
Belleville police so credible
the belleville police would do a better job of running this union thhen your corrupt leadership buddy !
Hey wait a minute wasn’t cigars a 1342 carpenter way back and isn’t he pals with Bellevilles own 253 Jamie Seratella
“We’ll be back till the rat goes”away keep up the good work!
And Defalco is a better social worker/therapist than a fake carpenter and failed drug dealer
the oxy dealing falls in line with mccarron’s old cocaine dealing buddy in california…
Any george updates?
Who said crime doesn’t pay
Pending another delay he should be sentenced tomorrow. Hopefully he’s cooperating but I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t.
Phil members there's an anti cutback rule with the irs do you homework and fight this menmbers get cutback if they are outside of the 10 year window. look into a law firm now. you can not merge two pensions together if they are not equally funded. lawyer up
They have been purposely weakening our pension while boosting jerseys up to make this theft happen .
Weird.
In 2015. The new jersey pension was in the red..part of new york was in the red.
Then nrcc hostilely took ovef phila and poof.. both those pensions were in the black again... Despite spencer and capelli trying to steal almost 6 million..
Then we became KML and poof. Pittsburgh and Md pension was magically fixed...
We dont need lawyers... We need mafia capos who specialize in waste management...
There are no laws if this is not indicted ...
So theres that option..
Cheaper than atty fees btw.
Rich can you do a post on how illegal this VRP is and how to stop it?? It would be nice to show the members of what is so wrong and what will happen in the future with this bullshit plan no raises in the future etc….
the only option you have is the funding of two pensions not eqal and you have an argument on the anti loss the members left with more then 10 years will lose their right to retire. even thou they say the can but the fines on the vrp going foward from merger date will not make it impossible so they will lose their early retirement by being starved out
this is what hsppens when you cant vote for est or reps and they are all apointed from the corrupt carpenters union
And the reduction of wages by attrition and design..
I wrote about this 5 years ago..
The plan is in conjunction with the communist democrats to create a north American wage..
If you believe you are still in a union .. you are truly being duped..
The union died the day mccarron removed your right to vote.. in essence.. removed your voice the voice of the " union" and replaced it with corruption and theft.. you by staying were a mere slave..
A pawn..
Lets just take the premise of 100% funded .
Its almost impossible and certainly not likely to happen with this corrupt leadership. Group of nitwits..
Since they also can access this money and make bad decisions.
Gee. Sorry .. no raises and no monies to anything but the pension since its 80% funded... Which by the way is the historic avg benchmark..
Like mccarrons 70% hoax..
The man was a shill to break the unions.. he is winning.
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