Posted on 09/30/2014 5:53:45 PM PDT by Shady
Albany
Officials at one of the state's largest public labor unions shielded a downstate council leader from potential prosecution after she allegedly used a union debit card to make at least $20,000 in questionable purchases — including liquor, restaurant bills and home improvement items.
Several people familiar with the matter, and internal documents filed with the Albany-based Public Employees Federation, indicate PEF's leaders asked to handle the matter as an internal "ethics violation" when contacted several months ago by the office of Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe. The union represents more than 53,000 state government workers.
The district attorney's office reached out to officials with PEF's Albany headquarters after reviewing evidence that was supplied by two members of a local union in Rockland County, according to four people briefed on the matter but not authorized to comment publicly. Zugibe, a Democrat who was elected district attorney in 2007, said he could not comment "on any matter of this nature pending in this office."
But the people briefed on the matter said at the time they were told by an official in Zugibe's office that the district attorney could not pursue the case because PEF's leaders didn't want it handled as a criminal offense.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...
Private justice in the public domain.
Has anyone ever suggested disenfranchising public employees from voting or running for public office?
They get such a good deal on their automatic pay raises, inability to be fired & higher pay than comparable real world industry.
this is bs.
Internal affair with outside people’s dues!
Unions are corporations that libs adore.
Luckily it was only theft and not murder ... the public would have been at least mildly outraged when he decided not to prosecute a murder because the union leaders didn’t want him to prosecute.
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