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Fraud case against union leader outlined
Honolulu Advertiser ^ | Thursday, October 3, 2002 | David Waite

Posted on 10/03/2002 6:40:34 PM PDT by Vidalia

Edited on 05/07/2004 6:18:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

United Public Workers union leader Gary Rodrigues systematically overcharged union members for health and dental insurance so he could steer lucrative consulting contracts to his daughter and share in the money, an assistant U. S. attorney told a federal court jury yesterday.


(Excerpt) Read more at the.honoluluadvertiser.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: fraud; hawaii; union; upw
" Rodrigues, once considered among Hawai'i's most powerful labor leaders and dubbed the "26th senator" because of his influence at the state Legislature, also served on the nine-member Judicial Selection Commission that screens judges for the state bench. "

That one statement fairly sums up the totality of corruption that runs through the veins of the Democrat/Union Party in Paradise...

1 posted on 10/03/2002 6:40:34 PM PDT by Vidalia
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