NOW TELL ME THIS IS NOT FRANKYS TWIN
AS THE FEDS STICK THE "MUELLER SCOPE" UP FRANKY "THE CHIMP"SPENCERS ASS.OR AS FRANKIE CALLS THE SCOPE. HIS BIG BOY TOY
LETS WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE
"At a January 2009 dinner at the Old Homestead Restaurant in Manhattan,
Mr. Spencer was present with Mr. Forde and seven other district council
officials and staff members to swear in new officers, according to
expense reports filed as exhibits with Mr. Walsh’s report. The bill for
the meal, which took place five months before Mr. Forde’s indictment,
was $2,233.59, or nearly $250 a person"
"Most financial improprieties, occurred before Mr.
Spencer’s supervision began.
But some
troubling spending practices continued under his watch, according to the
report."
"But the 71-page document,
the First Interim Report of the Review Officer, which was filed in
federal court in Manhattan, accompanied by hundreds of pages of
exhibits, includes evidence and troubling allegations that some of the
same kinds of misconduct that led to the 2009 charges have continued
under Mr. Spencer’s supervision."
READ THE INTERIM REPORT HERE
William Rashbaum
NY TIMES
Jan. 9, 2011
Frank Spencer, was installed by the parent union in August 2009, days after the federal racketeering indictment was unsealed
charging the district council’s leader, Michael J. Forde, and nine
others, including union officials, contractors and the head of an
industry association.
But the 71-page document,
the First Interim Report of the Review Officer, which was filed in
federal court in Manhattan, accompanied by hundreds of pages of
exhibits, includes evidence and troubling allegations that some of the
same kinds of misconduct that led to the 2009 charges have continued
under Mr. Spencer’s supervision.
“My
office has deep historical knowledge and is developing current
information about actual and attempted influence of organized crime over
the affairs of the district council and the funds,” the review officer,
Dennis M. Walsh, wrote in the report. “We have developed sufficient
information to reasonably suspect that there are certain district
council employees who have been and are currently under the influence of
La Cosa Nostra figures.”
The
report said individuals involved in running some of the local unions
were under scrutiny for similar ties, something Mr. Walsh said was “a
matter of grave import” that remained under investigation.
Mr.
Walsh was appointed in June by a federal judge presiding over a
two-decade-old civil racketeering lawsuit brought by the federal
government against the district council charging corruption and mob
control. That case resulted in a 1994 consent decree meant to clean up
the union, a task that, based on the 2009 criminal case and Mr. Walsh’s
report, remains far from complete.
Mr. Forde and eight union officials and contractors have pleaded guilty
in the criminal case. Joseph Olivieri, the former head of the
Association of Wall-Ceiling and Carpentry Industries of New York, went
to trial and was convicted in late October of perjury for lying about
his ties to organized crime figures. Mr. Forde was sentenced in November
to 11 years in prison, and a union shop steward, Michael Brennan, was
sentenced to five years. The other eight men are to be sentenced this
year.
Since
the consent decree was signed, Mr. Walsh, who says in the report that
his staff is made up of former law prosecutors and investigators with
experience in organized crime cases and unions, is the fourth outsider
assigned either to investigate allegations of corruption or to monitor
the district council.The
report provides a detailed review of excessive spending by senior
officials of the district council and the local unions, and a range of
other financial improprieties, most of which occurred before Mr.
Spencer’s supervision began.
But some
troubling spending practices continued under his watch, according to the
report. Among them was a retirement party for Denis Sheil, a longtime
officer and business manager of Local 1536 and the District Council vice
president since 2002.
Upon his
retirement in 2009, Mr. Sheil was given a $15,064 all-terrain vehicle by
the local and an $8,328 gold Rolex watch by the district council. He
was initially allowed to keep about $30,000 in cash that remained in a
fund set up for his retirement dinner after the $14,176 bill was paid,
according to the report. Mr. Sheil later returned the money.
And
at a January 2009 dinner at the Old Homestead Restaurant in Manhattan,
Mr. Spencer was present with Mr. Forde and seven other district council
officials and staff members to swear in new officers, according to
expense reports filed as exhibits with Mr. Walsh’s report. The bill for
the meal, which took place five months before Mr. Forde’s indictment,
was $2,233.59, or nearly $250 a person.
A
spokesman for the parent union, Scott Widmeyer, defended Mr. Spencer’s
tenure. And while Mr. Widmeyer did not respond to a question about Mr.
Sheil’s retirement gifts, he said Mr. Spencer recalled that he presided
over the swearing-in ceremony and stopped by a restaurant afterward, but
that he did not stay for dinner
“We view this as a work in progress,” Mr. Widmeyer wrote in an e-mail
late last month. “Frank Spencer characterizes this as peeling an onion.
Each time you peel, you find another problem. So we keep peeling away.”
Mr.
Widmeyer said that under the emergency supervision, 17 employees had
been terminated for issues like misusing funds, excessive spending, drug
use and manipulating the out-of-work lists.
“We
are making progress, and more needs to be made and will be made,” he
said, adding, “Today there is far greater transparency, and organizing
efforts are succeeding.”
He said the parent union’s recent closing of Local 608, one of the district council’s more troubled units, indicated that the effort was continuing and aggressive.
But,
as Mr. Walsh points out in his report, the challenge facing the
District Council is not insignificant. It has been for decades, he
noted, “a fiefdom for brutes, thieves, con men and other species of
racketeers who have subjugated and robbed its members and vitiated its
democratic and benevolent purpose.”
“The
record also demonstrates,” he wrote, “that efforts to achieve systemic
reform have been trampled by the seemingly limitless capacity of
racketeers to blithely disregard the orders of this court and the risk
of criminal prosecution as they pursue wealth, political power and
satisfy their sybaritic yearnings.”
In
an e-mail, Mr. Walsh said his goal was “to build a strong institution
that can police itself, is ethical, uses technology to surmount ancient
racketeering methods, hires people on merit, reviews their performance
objectively and spends money prudently and with close internal oversight
and provides a fair justice system for its members.”
MORE FRANKY SPENCER FRAUD ALLEGATIONS
THOMAS CANTO JR
HEY FBI YOU LISTENING
Thomas Canto Jr. WHO was the
son of union leader Thomas Canto, Spencer’s colleague at the New Jersey
Regional Council of Carpenters.” ONE DAY TOM WAS WORKING AT THE YMCA AND
NEXT HE WAS SECURITY COORDINATOR FOR THE ATLANTIC CITY INTERNATIONAL
AIR PORT
The
accusations of patronage are not new. In June, the authority hired
former Camden County Parks Director Bart Mueller, a close friend of
FRANK SPENCER'S to oversee the E-ZPass toll collection system on the
expressway.
BART MUELLER
HEY FBI YOU LISTENING
Republicans had tried to stop Mueller from joining the SJTA in any
capacity. They charged that Mueller wasn't qualified for the job and was
picked because of his ties to two prominent Camden County Democrats —
Frank Spencer, a union leader and SJTA chairman, and political
power broker George Norcross III.
AMD LETS NOT FORGET BART MUELLER IS THE DADDY OF FRANKYS "VOICE" TRISH MUELLER
HOW ARE THE FEDS ALLOWING A WELL DOCUMENTED CROOK TO CONTINUE TO TO BE PART OF THE UBC CRIMINAL SYNDICATE AND ROB UBC MEMBERS
FUNNELING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF UBC MEMBERS MONEY TO NEW JERSEY SCUM BAGS
ASSOCIATION WITH KNOWN CRIMINALS
BULL SHYTE CONSULTING FEES
NO SHOW JOBS
RETALIATION AGAINST THOSE WHO EXPOSED HIS CORRUPT ACTS WHICH COST THE UBC MEMBERS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO SETTLE LEGAL CASES.
HIDING WAGES IN AN ANNUITY TO AVOID PAYING TAXES
NEED WE GO ON
WHEN DOES IT STOP??
