HATE TO SAY WE TOLD YOU SO BUT ...THE TRUTH COMES OUT IN THE STRANGE TALE OF KRISTIN OBRIEN

  So Kristin O'Brien puts the funds in the Level Care consortium SCAM and then they move the funds business to Independence Blue Cross. A short time later she quits and takes a job with George Norcross and his company Connor, Strong and Buckelew.When she took the job she was listed as a "VP and Consultant for Taft-Hartley and Labor Practices" 

 NOTICE NO MENTION OF "EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF LEVEL CARE"

 We knew it was a conflict of Interest and self dealing because we know the relationship between the rats Spencer,Norcross,the UBC,Independence Blue Cross and the Level Care BS.. 

 

BUT what if after she put the funds in the Level Care consortium and then moved the funds business to Independence Blue Cross she quits and announced she was going to work for Level Care and Independence Blue Cross .Now that would be a no doubt clear cut red flag conflict of interest and self dealing .Right??? 

Guess what Kristin Obriens new job description says ? 

 WTF ?? "dedicated to supporting Level Health one of our most high-profile clients" 

Level Health is the Level Care consortium she put the funds in."

 

 Her extensive knowledge of Level(Care)" ?? But Pauly boy the liar Capurso said she had nothing to do with the Level Care and Independence Blue Cross moves and it was all the trustees so how does she have extensive knowledge of Level Care.

IF THESE TWO ARE NOT BROTHER AND SISTER THEN THEY ARE FIRST COUSINS AT LEAST
 

How is the UBC Level Care BS one of George Norcross's high profile clients 

"one of our most high-profile clients"??? 

And another part of her job description is "collaborating closely with Level’s team and Independence Administrators." (Independence Blue Cross) 

So Pauly Boy the Liar........

I guess she did put the funds in the Level Care consortium BS,moved the funds business to Independence Blue Cross and then was rewarded with a high paying job working with both.

"UNION LEADERSHIP THAT STEALS FROM THE AMERICAN WORKER WILL FACE PROSECUTION,CONVICTION AND PRISON TIME"

  BOLD STATEMENT!! LET'S SEE IF THEY ARE SINCERE SHALL WE

SPEAKING OF .....

"THE BIGGEST THREAT TO ORGANIZED LABOR  IS PROVING TO BE UNIONS THEMSELVES"

 

Today a federal jury convicted a North Carolina couple, a Missouri man, and an Ohio man in relation to a scheme involving theft of union-member dues through the award of no-show jobs, lavish travels and dinners charged to the union, unearned vacation payouts, and an unauthorized $7 million loan made to a union-related bank.

The jury convicted Newton Jones, 72, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the former President of the International Brotherhood of  Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers, and Helpers (Boilermakers Union), his wife Kateryna Jones, 33, of Chapel Hill, and the former Secretary Treasurer, William Creeden, 78 of Kearney, Missouri, of violation of the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. Those defendants, as well as one of the Boilermaker Union’s former Vice Presidents, Lawrence McManamon, 78, of Rocky River, Ohio were convicted of embezzlement from the Union through various means, including:

• Taking elaborate foreign trips that were not related to Union business 
• Charging personal expenses to the Union, including shopping trips and dinners out – 
• Paying or overpaying unearned salary and relocation expenses for Newton Jones’s family members – 
• Paying out of unearned vacation – 
• Paying for unauthorized surveillance of Union employees 
• Making an unlawful $7M loan to a bank at which Newton Jones and Creeden were employed 
• Theft from the Union retirement plan – 
• Health care fraud relating to unearned benefits provided to Kateryna Jones –
• Wire fraud relating to failure to disclose required payments, outside employment, and conflicts of interest 

“The Boilermakers Union members were supposed to get representation out of their hard-earned money used to pay union dues,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “What they got instead is their money wasted on lavish trips and dinners, and unearned vacation payouts for the union leadership. Union dues must be handled with care and used for the benefit of the dues paying members. Union leadership that steals from the American worker will face prosecution, conviction, and prison time.”

“The absolute hubris and entitlement with which these defendants stole from American workers is disgraceful,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan A. Kriegshauser for the District of Kansas. “While union members were faithfully clocking-in and out of their jobs, these defendants thought they were unaccountable and were callously gallivanting on extravagant trips that spared no expense. With these convictions comes a reckoning, and we will be asking the Court to hold these defendants accountable for their criminal conduct and impose appropriate sentences of incarceration.”    

“By using union funds for their private benefit, the fraud committed by these defendants strikes at the very confidence union members place in their leaders to represent their interests,” said Special Agent in Charge Chris Omerod of the FBI Kansas City Field Office. “The evidence presented in trial demonstrated an elaborate and willful deceit of the Boilermakers Union to fund the lavish lifestyle of their former leaders. The FBI will not tolerate this level of financial exploitation against hard working Americans.”

“These union officials clearly violated LMRDA fiduciary requirements with their excessive and extravagant spending and caused great harm to their organization and its members,” said Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Labor-Management Standards Director Elisabeth Messenger. “The conviction of these individuals serves as a strong warning to those who abuse their responsibilities that such violations of union members’ trust will lead to serious repercussions. The department’s new reporting requirements for large unions will go a long way in protecting the financial integrity of labor unions.”

“Investigating corruption and ensuring the financial integrity of private health and pension plans, including union plans, is a priority for EBSA,” said DOL Employee Benefits Security Administration Assistant Secretary Daniel Aronowitz. “In this case, Boilermakers officials put their own interests first and misused funds entrusted to them to provide retirement and health benefits for union members and their families. EBSA will pursue those who engage in criminal schemes to defraud private sector benefit plans. We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to work collaboratively with our law enforcement partners.”

According to evidence presented at trial, over a 15-year period, the defendants, led by Newton Jones and Creeden, embezzled the funds of the Boilermakers Union including:

• Over $5 million in unnecessary luxury international travel;
• Nearly $2 million in salary and benefits to Kateryna Jones and others for no-show jobs, at which they were not required to work, including payment of two years of salary to Kateryna Jones for a period when she resided in Ukraine and was dating Newton Jones;
• Over $100,000 in tuition, rent, and relocation expenses for members of the family of Newton Jones;
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash payments relating to fraudulently claimed vacation time;
• Over $100,000 in restaurant charges by Newton Jones and Kateryna Jones in their hometown;
• Money spent in unauthorized email surveillance of union employees to defend Newton Jones and McManamon from internal union charges; and
• $7 million in unauthorized loans from the Boilermakers Union to the bank at which Newton Jones and Creeden had supposed full-time jobs that required little work and were each paid nearly $500,000 per year while they were also being paid a full-time salary from the union.

Trial evidence showed that Newton Jones hired his wife Kateryna Jones for a job in which she performed little to no work and received nearly $1.8 million in salary over the course of nine years. Newton and Kateryna Jones also embezzled over $160,000 for date night meals in their hometown of Chapel Hill. Newton Jones and William Creeden embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and benefits for three of Newton Jones’ family members. These defendants also embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars in the form of improper vacation payouts.  

In addition, the couple embezzled millions of dollars in unnecessary and lavish international travel from the dues of union members, including conducting executive meetings for no apparent purpose in extravagant hotels in cities like Paris, France and Rome, Italy.

Creeden and Newton Jones also used their executive positions in the Boilermakers Union to obtain high-level positions at the Bank of Labor, where the union is the majority shareholder. Earning a full-time salary at the bank while supposedly working full-time at the union, Jones and Creeden were paid nearly $4 million in salary and $1.4 million in retirement benefits from the bank.

A sentencing date has been set for Sept. 1. Lawrence McManamon faces a maximum of penalty of five years in prison on each count. William Creeden, Newton Jones, and Kateryna Jones each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The Department of Labor and the FBI investigated the case.

Senior Litigation Counsel Vincent Falvo and Trial Attorney Alexandra Swain of the Criminal Division’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Faiza Alhambra and Jabari Wamble for the District of Kansas prosecuted the case.

 

"UNION LEADERSHIP THAT STEALS FROM THE AMERICAN WORKER"

IS THIS LEGIT OR JUST THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE BUMBLE JOE BIDEN VENDETTA AGAINST THE BOILERMAKERS

 

 THE BOILERMAKERS UNION DID NOT ENDORSE BIDEN AND HIS "CREW". IT APPEARS THE BOILERMAKERS DID NOT LINE BIDEN'S  POCKETS AND THEN CALLED HIM OUT FOR LYING WHEN HE CLAIMED THEY DID ENDORSE HIM.......

SUDDENLY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PURSUES A CASE AGAINST THE BOILERMAKERS UNION BUT IT APPEARS TO BE HANDS OFF THE UBC CORRUPTION AND UBC CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

 

WE HAVE A WEALTH DOCUMENTED PROOF THAT CASH MCCARRON AND OTHER UBC INTERNATIONAL RATS ARE GUILTY OF THE SAME ALLEGATIONS LISTED AGAINST JONES AND THE REST.LET'S SEE WHAT THE DOJ DOES WITH THE INFORMATION

  

THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS..A SCOURGE ON ORGANIZED LABOR ..A TITLE WELL EARNED

    

 EVERY OTHER DAY WE HAVE YET ANOHTER REPORT ON THE CORRUPTION THAT INFESTS DIRTY DOUG MCCARRONS CARPENTERS UNION

AS LONG AS CASH MCCARRON SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH CORRUPT TRASH AND MORONS WHO ARE TO STUPID TO BE A THREAT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE UBC BARREL THE HITS WILL KEEP COMING  

    

 

Union leaders have a big problem on their hands – and it is one of their own making.

A series of union scandals, including one involving the Carpenters regional Council,is eroding public confidence in organized labour. That’s because union bosses are serving up a surplus of arrogance and a shortage of accountability.

The real tragedy, of course, is that these ethical failures amount to a dereliction of duty. The affected unions’ dues-paying members deserve reliable representation to safeguard their rights at this critical moment for Canada’s economy.

I offer this opinion as a member of a union (Unifor represents some employees of The Globe and Mail), but also as a business journalist who regularly writes about corruption and governance lapses on Bay Street and beyond. Unions, in my view, ought to be subject to the same scrutiny on matters of misconduct.

Take, for instance, the controversy currently engulfing the Carpenters’ Regional Council, or CRC, one of Canada’s largest construction unions.

Earlier this week, my colleague Jeff Gray reported that three of the union’s senior officials resigned amid an internal probe sparked by a Globe investigation into questionable real estate transactions including one in 2022 that involved a $4-million home used by the union’s top boss and his wife. More on that in a minute.

The resignations included executive secretary-treasurer Jason Rowe, his spouse, Stacey Rowe, who was also a senior union official, and Tom Cardinal, the union’s president and chief of staff, according to staff e-mails reviewed by The Globe.

Neither the former executives nor a CRC spokesman provided comment before the story’s publication on Sunday. Nor did the union announce the resignations on its website, leaving the bulk of its 60,000 members in the dark.

That’s shocking because earlier this month,the CRC was placed under the supervision of its US based parent union the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

The U.S. parent launched an internal probe of CRC after The Globe published a story in April that revealed both the purchase of the luxury home in Nobleton, Ont., and that it was occupied by Mr. Rowe and his wife from 2022 to 2024.

After that probe began, The Globe published  a subsequent story that revealed the purchase of a second home for $2.5-million in 2024.

Both homes were bought by a numbered company (Mr. Rowe and his wife both served as directors at the time), and the homes were later transferred to the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. for free.

In other words, the resignations and the questionable real-estate transactions both came to light thanks to Mr. Gray’s dogged reporting – and not because of transparency from the union.

These are matters of public interest because the CRC has previously received millions of dollars from the federal and provincial governments for its worker-training centres.

Other unions have also become embroiled in controversies.

In 2023, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, or OPSEU, accused three of its former executives, including its former long-time president, Warren (Smokey) Thomas, of improperly taking $5.75-million of union funds.

The allegations, which were contained in a lawsuit have not been proven in court. Not only are the allegations contested,Mr Thomas later launched a countersuit and denied any wrong doing

Mr. Thomas has also previously said that OPSEU’s current leadership, headed by JP Hornick, is waging a “nasty, political campaign” against him and that he will be vindicated in court.

His comments about infighting are reminiscent of those made by Unifor’s former leader, Jerry Dias, who previously faced allegations of bribery from his union back in 2022.

Toronto Police decided not to charge Mr. Dias for allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash from an unnamed company and he later reached an undisclosed settlement with Unifor.

“I am a lot of things but crooked is not one of them,” he told  the Globe in 2023later adding: “I never took a dime.”

Mr. Dias also blamed internal politics at Unifor for the fiasco.

So, what the heck is happening inside Canada’s biggest unions?

At a time when Canadians are facing an affordability crisis, artificial intelligence is threatening to destroy jobs and the U.S. trade war is taking an economic toll, workers deserve better.

It’s time to subject unions to rigorous public disclosures regarding their finances, executive salaries and perks.

Some 30.6 per cent of Canadian workers were covered by a collective bargaining agreement in 2025, but union membership has been declining since the 1980s.

New members have long complained that union leadership is comprised of an old guard that is out of touch with young people, women and visible minorities.

Financial controversies will only fuel the discontent.

Canadians are losing trust in the labour movement. Union leaders only have themselves to blame.

 

IT IS LONG PAST TIME FOR EITHER MEMBERS OR THE FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PUT THIS CROOK OUT TO THE TRASH 

 

 

AND FOR GODS SAKE SOMEBODY DO IT BEFORE ET EYES MCCARRON HAS MORE PLASTIC SURGERY.WHATS NEXT AFTER ET EYES ??THE CASH MCCARRON FREDDY KRUGER COSTUME