Posted on 08/15/2022 8:36:07 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(Translation)
Longshoremen's union leader Carlos Sánchez Ortiz and several employees of [International Longshoremen's Association] 1740 who work in the docks of San Juan face seven charges, among them fraud, labor extortion, and illegal appropriation, U.S. Attorney in Puerto Rico Stephen Muldrow announced.
The group also faces charges of conspiracy, violation of the Organized Crime Law, and money-laundering. It is alleged that the accused appropriated over $1 million. Six of the arrested are males and one is a female.
The accused face up to 20 years in prison for the crimes they presumably committed.
Just heard the presser. Basically an extortion scheme against shipping companies: pay up or we paralyze the docks. Mostly in the transshipment piers of San Juan Harbor (where big ships unload cargo that is put on smaller ships bound for the Lesser Antilles.
Given it’s the FBI, he must have forgotten to bribe the right Democrat.
Or become inconvenient to some Democrat.
‘Scuse me, to be correct it has to be steviedores. LOL
That union has always been a hotbed of communist organization and activity, in other words, a natural ally for today’s FIB. I’ve been predicting a “night of the long knives” as the regime consolidates its thuggery into official organs (FIB, DOJ, NSC, CIA, FISA/Supreme Court). The regime no longer needs union organizers, BLM or Antifa. There must be, as with Hitler’s potential rouge SA, a fear that these prospering groups that have been nurtured might become uncontrollable. Their utility for the powers that be are certainly now diminished.
“Six of the arrested are males and one is a female.”
Why is that important?
Translation: Union didn’t schmier the DNC enough.
Equal-opportunity arrests?
I remember the scandal when unionists refused to move supplies in the aftermath of the hurricanes.
Not leftist enough?
what you say +++
Was he the guy responsible for hiding millions of bottles of bottled water after PR was hard hit by a hurricane?
Well, when the Stasi arrests anyone, my first instinct is to come down on the side of the arrested.
However, since this is a very corrupt union and the Stasi arrested it’s leader, I will simply have to come down on the side of Longshoremen’s union leader Carlos Sánchez Ortiz.
Sorry, but I trust and believe a corrupt union official before I believe the Stasi.
Watch for a bunch of “bad guy” arrests by the corrupt FBI. They need to convince the American people they’re white hat wearing heroes...
politicians don’t appreciate competition.
“They probably weren’t paying the FBI the appropriate vig.”
Cheat on your wife, beat the kid, kick the the dog but NEVER, EVER short the vig.
They sure don’t. When Mussolini went after the Mafia in Sicily, it sure wasn’t out of some noble sense of law and order. It was, in essence, a turf war.
The PR Union probably did not contribute to the democRAT party, hence the indictments. And so it goes in our banana republic.
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