Bipartisan D.C. Swamp Has Long Aided and Abetted Doug McCarron
Federal prosecutors may finally be closing in on top current bosses
of the President Joe Biden-allied United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC)
union.
Nearly four years ago, former union official John Ballantyne and two
of his former staff members filed a civil suit charging that UBC
President Doug McCarron and other UBC kingpins had engineered the
elimination of their jobs in retaliation for Mr. Ballantyne’s
whistleblowing.
In 2017, Mr. Ballantyne had advised law enforcement regarding
multiple cases of alleged financial crimes in the highest ranks of the
UBC and its subsidiaries.
For example, he charged that George Laufenberg, who until 2016 was
the administrative manager of the UBC New York/New Jersey benefit funds,
had pilfered large sums of workers’ pension money. The suit was
ultimately settled out of court, with the terms undisclosed. But in
September 2019 Mr. Laufenberg was indicted for embezzling retirement and
other union funds.
This June, Mr. Laufenberg entered a guilty plea, admitting to
embezzlement of roughly $140,000 and to making false statements in
federal filings.
Union Bosses Said to Have Improperly Raked in $300,000 In Dues-Funded Payments
The retaliation suit against Carpenters union kingpins charged that,
along with Mr. Laufenberg, UBC General Vice President Frank Spencer and
UBC Eastern District Vice President Mike Capelli (who retired in early
2020) had used their positions of power to enrich themselves at workers’
expense.
For example, Mr. Spencer and Mr. Capelli allegedly raked in a total
of $300,000 in forced union dues-funded payments to their annuities from
the Northwest Regional Council at a time they were no longer employed
by that entity.
In 2020, five former employees of a UBC subsidiary with jurisdiction
over six states filed a suit alleging that Mr. McCarron had helped
engineer their wrongful terminations in retaliation for their alliance
with Mr. Ballantyne.
National Right to Work Committee Vice President Greg Mourad commented:
“As he awaits a sentence of up to 10 years’ incarceration, George
Laufenberg has a strong incentive to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
If he does, there is good reason to suspect several other former, as
well as current Carpenters union bigwigs, will before long be joining
him in the federal prison system.
“The fact is, no one who has followed the excruciatingly long record
of Doug McCarron should be at all surprised that he has recently been
accused in two separate lawsuits of punishing staff members and union
officeholders who fight corruption.
“In 2002, facing legal pressure partly due to National Labor
Relations Board charges filed by the National Right to Work Legal
Defense Foundation, Mr. McCarron announced he would return nearly
$300,000 he had made in personal profits through a notorious union-boss
insider trading deal.
“While several other union bosses who similarly benefited from rigged
insider trading at shareholders’ and workers’ expense subsequently
resigned from their offices in disgrace, Mr. McCarron did not.
“Incredibly, in 2003, George W. Bush Labor Department operative
Andrew Siff, Andrew Siff, a former staffer for U.S. Senate GOP heavyweight Mitch
McConnell [Ky.], persuaded Labor Secretary and McConnell spouse Elaine
Chao that her agency should back Mr. McCarron in a lawsuit filed against
him by UBC dissidents.”, persuaded Labor Secretary and McConnell spouse Elaine
Chao that her agency should back Mr. McCarron in a lawsuit filed against
him by UBC dissidents.”
George W. Bush’s Labor Department Helped UBC Czar Consolidate His Power
Mr. Mourad continued:
“The lawsuit correctly alleged that a so-called ‘restructuring’ of
the UBC concocted by Mr. McCarron deprived the rank-and-file of their
statutory right to directly elect regional union officers.
“According to a 2019 Bloomberg account recapping the incident,
then-Labor Department Solicitor Eugene Scalia knew the UBC dissidents
were legally correct, but the Bush Labor Department sided with Mr.
McCarron anyway, hoping to reap political benefits for the GOP.
“Of course, the UBC continues today to funnel the vast majority of
its political contributions to union-label Democrats, and in the last
two presidential elections, Mr. McCarron personally campaigned with
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
“If federal prosecutors, with George Laufenberg’s help, finally bring
Doug McCarron to justice for his decades-long abuse of his office, it
will be a stern rebuke for the GOP establishment, as well as a
vindication for the union dissidents who never gave up their efforts to
hold Mr. McCarron accountable.”
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THE ARTICLE DECLARES
"Andrew Siff, Andrew Siff, a former staffer for U.S. Senate GOP heavyweight Mitch
McConnell [Ky.], persuaded Labor Secretary and McConnell spouse Elaine
Chao that her agency should back Mr. McCarron in a lawsuit filed against
him by UBC dissidents.”persuaded Labor Secretary and McConnell spouse Elaine
Chao that her agency should back Mr. McCarron in a lawsuit filed against
him by UBC dissidents.”
ANDREW SIFF HAS BEEN ON THE UBC PAYROLL SINCE AT LEAST 2007
LAST YEAR WAS REWARDED BY THE UBC OVER $201,000
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HACKS WORKING AS PROSTITUTES FOR CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES SUCH AS THE UBC.
ANDY SIFFLISS ALSO GETS PAID AT LEAST $80,000 A YEAR FROM THE UBC AS A LOBBYIST
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