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.
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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.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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.
YES QUESTION OVER HERE:
BOB BARKER. REPORTER FOR THE"YOU ARE FULL OF SHYTE WEEKLY"
WHILE YOU ARE ALL SLAPPING EACH OTHER ON THE BACK FOR LETTING LAUFENBERG WALK WITH A SLAP ON THE WRIST AND CREDITING EVERYBODY BUT YOUR MOMS... I NOTICED YOU HAVE NOT THANKED OR CREDITED JOHN BALLANTYNE WHO EXPOSED LAUFENBERG AND WAS TAKEN OUT BY LAUFENBERGS UBC INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL ASSOCIATES FOR DOING SO..
ALSO IS THERE ANY INTENTION OF CHARGING AND PROSECUTING THOSE WHO LET LAUFENBERG STEAL THE MONEY AND THEN TRIED TO COVER UP HIS CRIMES BY PERSECUTING BALLANTYNE??
NANCY ERIKA SMITH
Civil rights lawyer and advocate. Partner, Smith Mullin
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
