IF AT FIRST YOUR DON'T SUCCEED,TRY, TRY AGAIN.
AFTER ALL IT'S NOT YOUR MONEY.
SPRINKLE IN SOME NEW BS TO TRY AND AVOID THE "DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE"RULING AND GO FOR IT
CARPENTERS UNION AGAIN SUES FORMER ST.LOUIS LABOR LEADER
ST. LOUIS — The Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council is accusing former St. Louis union leader Al Bond of breaching his fiduciary duty to the union in a new lawsuit filed this week in St. Louis Circuit Court.
The new legal action against Bond comes after a U.S. District Court judge in March dismissed the union’s federal lawsuit against Bond on procedural grounds, ruling only union members and not unions themselves could bring actions against leaders using the 1959 Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. A union lawyer said then it planned to pursue its legal claims in state court.
Bond led the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council from 2015 until September 2021, when he was ousted without explanation by national leaders at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. The 22,000-member St. Louis-based council was an important force in area development projects and held considerable sway in regional politics, funding candidates and putting its weight behind major efforts such as an ill-fated attempt to privatize the city-owned airport and the Better Together-led city-county merger campaign.
Though the union was mum on its reasons, court filings and other documents eventually disclosed that union leaders were investigating “financial impropriety” by Bond. It dissolved the St. Louis council and put its operations under the Chicago district council, which was renamed the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council.
The new lawsuit makes many of the same claims against Bond as the federal lawsuit filed in March 2022. It accuses Bond of using union funds to pay $900 of his daughter’s medical bills, buy a $1,300 CPAP machine used for himself and purchase Fox Theater season tickets worth $4,500 between 2018 and 2020. It also alleges he had the union pay him nearly $18,000 for an unauthorized, retroactive salary increase.
It also contains one new allegation, accusing Bond of spending $5.6 million to buy land and build and furnish a new wellness center in Kansas City without proper approval from the U.S. Department of Labor. Because the land had been owned by the affiliated Carpenters Joint Training Fund, the lawsuit says, the St. Louis council needed a waiver from the Labor Department.
But while the waiver application was pending, Bond ordered construction to begin despite the union’s attorney advising him to wait, the lawsuit alleges. That caused the Labor Department to deny the waiver, imposing additional application costs on the union.
In addition, the lawsuit says, Mid-America “will be fined and civil penalties will be assessed by the DOL at an amount yet to be determined.”
Bond has not yet filed responses in the case, but his filings in the federal case called the national union’s dissolution of the St. Louis council “a political coup d’etat” and “a hostile takeover.” Bond’s attorney, longtime labor lawyer John Goffstein, declined to comment on the new lawsuit. A lawyer for Mid-America, Philip Cantwell of Dowd Bennett, declined to comment.
The lawsuit is one of several filed since Bond’s ouster.
Mid-America last year sued two billboard companies owned by James Neumann over a $4 million contract outdoor advertising contract Bond approved. The union alleged Bond, who it said has “a close personal relationship” with Neumann, paid the companies $3 million before seeking board approval and that only one of three billboards was actually built. After a judge tossed the federal lawsuit, the billboard companies filed their own lawsuit in St. Louis, and the union countersued last month.
Last week, Mid-America sued developer Paul McKee and companies tied to him over $1.8 million due on a 2020 union loan Bond approved to support the operations of the largely defunct Green Leaf Market grocery store.
NOW THESE UBC LEGAL BEAGLES AT DOWD BENNETT AND J NOBLE DAGGET LLP CANNOT NOT BE THIS STUPID
SO WE HAVE TO WONDER. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS CASE?
JUST MORE UBC
OH YES SKIPPY CANTWELL. NICE TRY BUT LETS REPLACE YOUR "DOL" LANGUAGE WITH "EBSA". EITHER YOU ARE A MORON OR NOT A VERY GOOD CON MAN.FURTHER DESPITE YOUR LIES TO THE COURT THE COUNCIL TRUSTEES DO NOT "AUTHORIZE"ANYTHING.
THEN WE HAVE A REPEAT OF THE ALLEGATIONS "DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE" IN FEDERAL COURT
$927 MEDICAL BILL
$1300 CPAP MACHINE
RETROACTIVE PAY RAISE
THIS CROCK OF SHYTE IS ALL YOU HAVE!!!???
IT IS RATHER INSULTING THAT UBC RAT GARY "THE YACHT" PERINAR
HEY GARY PERINAR. IT'S RATHER AMUSING FOR YOU TO CALL OUT SOMEBODY ELSE FOR CORRUPTION WHEN YOU HAVE SO MUCH CRAP ON YOUR FACE
STAY TUNED BOYS AND GIRLS.LET'S WATCH THIS CASE ALSO GO IN THE UBC"LOSER"DUMPSTER AND MORE MEMBERS DUES MONEY PAID OUT IN LEGAL FEES
