THREE YEARS PROBATION,SIX MONTHS HOME CONFINEMENT AND A $20,000 FINE.ALSO BARRED FROM ASSOCIATION WITH A UNION OR A BENEFIT PLAN
WHAT A CROCK OF HORSE SHYTE. I GUESS ALL THAT PAYOFF MONEY SENT TO NEW JERSEY BY THE UBC INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL SYNDICATE PAID OFF
ANOTHER GLARING EXAMPLE OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA
IF THIS WAS YOU OR ME THESE NEW JERSEY DEPUTY DOGS WOULD HAVE NAILED US TO A CROSS.THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN OUR HOMES,BANK ACCOUNTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THEY COULD SQUEEZE OUT OF US. RIGHT DOWN TO THAT FRESH PAIR OF UNDERWEAR YOU WERE SAVING FOR YOUR SISTERS WEDDING
WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL AND WOULD STILL BE IN JAIL
YET THIS RAT GETS PROBATION
LAUFING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK
FORMER CARPENTERS BENEFITS MANAGER AVOIDS PRISON TIME FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
George Laufenberg, the former benefits manager for the Carpenters union in New Jersey and New York, will avoid prison time after pleading guilty to embezzlement and making false statements.
Laufenberg, who also served as a commissioner on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation and six months of home confinement and fined $20,000, Matt Reilly, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, said. He is also barred for any association with a union or benefit plan, Riley said.
Laufenberg’s sentence by U.S. District Court Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark is the latest negative headline for the powerful union, which in 2019 received federal grand jury subpoenas regarding its pension and several pharmacy benefits managers.
LAUFENBERG SENTENCED FOR STEALING UNION FUNDS
By David Wildstein, November 16 2022 3:54 pm
The former head of the Northeast Carpenter’s Union Pension Fund was sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years’ probation after admitting that he embezzled about $140,000.
George R. Laufenberg, a former commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, admitted in June that he had stolen pension fund and made false statements to the U.S. Department of Labor.
U.S. District Court Judge Kevin McNulty also imposed a $20,000 fine on the former labor leader.
Federal prosecutors said that Laufenberg took the funds under a deferred compensation agreement that he was not entitled to. He was the administrative manager of the pension fund.
The Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters fired Laufenberg in 2016. In 2018, they also terminated John Ballantyne, the former secretary-treasurer of the union and a political ally of Gov. Phil Murphy. Ballantyne alleged that he was forced out after emerging as a critic of Laufenberg.
Five Ballantyne allies, including his son and Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli (D-Hopewell), filed a lawsuit alleging that they were terminated in retaliation.
“The union fired these five long-term union leaders because they were actively involved in efforts to bring women and minorities into the union and because they all objected to the discriminatory and hostile atmosphere created and encouraged by current union leadership,” said their attorney, Nancy Erika Smith of Smith Mullin. “The abandonment of diversity efforts – and firing of those championing those efforts – may have an even longer lasting and more damaging effect on the union than the Laufenberg corruption case. We hope those public entities who are negotiating with the union for public, taxpayer-paid jobs will keep these efforts in mind and join us in trying to force real change.”
Later, the carpenters restructured their union to purge other Ballantyne allies.
In 2017, Laufenberg resigned from the Porth Authority post amid allegations that he did not actually live in the port district — a 25-mile radius around the Statue of Liberty. Laufenberg held one of the four seats that required port district residency, so he used his son’s address in Hoboken and not his home in Wall. He had been named to the post by Gov. Chris Christie.
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Former Carpenters’ Benefit Plan Administrator Sentenced to Six Months’ Home Confinement, Three Years’ Probation for Embezzling $140,000
NEWARK, N.J. – The former administrative manager of a carpenters’ union pension fund was sentenced today to six months of home confinement and three years of probation for embezzling approximately $140,000 and making false statements on a required report to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
George R. Laufenberg, 72, of Wall Township, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kevin R. McNulty to two counts of an indictment charging him with embezzling approximately $140,000 in pension benefits and making false statements to the DOL. Judge McNulty imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Laufenberg was the administrative manager of the Northeast Carpenters Pension Fund, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Laufenberg was a fiduciary and participant in the pension fund. He admitted stealing $140,000 that was paid to him under a deferred compensation agreement to which he was not entitled. Laufenberg also admitted that he made false statements in a form required under ERISA that he filed to the Department of Labor on behalf of the pension fund.
In addition to the prison term, Judge McNulty fined Laufenberg $20,000 and debarred him from any future association with a union or benefit plan.
U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents of the DOL Employee Benefit Security Administration, under the supervision of Thomas Licetti, Regional Director; special agents of the DOL Office of the Inspector General, under the supervision of Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Mellone; and agents of the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, under the supervision of Inspector General John Gay, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing.
The government is represented by Senior Litigation Counsel V. Grady O’Malley of the Organized Crime/Gangs Unit, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kendall R. Randolph of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force Unit.
HEY KENDALL RANDOLPH AND GRADY O'MALLEY THIS IS THE BEST YOU GOT ??
I HOPE YOU KNOW SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW AND I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE DOWN THE ROAD
