> >Even the example you give is more complicated.
>
>-Actually you gave the example, to make the point that the case was
>-being mischaracterized as union corruption when it was corporate. In
>-fact, it was a joint venture in corruption, a fine example of
>-labor-management cooperation in stealing workers' assets. It took
>-less than five minutes of Googling to find this out.
>
>Except you were mixing two different legal investigations and crimes.
>http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/15/ln/ln07p.html
>"Wong's criminal case is separate from the federal prosecution that resulted
>in the conviction of former United Public Workers head Gary Rodrigues on
>charges of mail fraud, money laundering and embezzling union money."
Don't forget the next two paragraphs:
>One of the charges against Rodrigues was that a contract he
>negotiated with PGMA to provide coverage for UPW members allowed the
>company to transfer a portion of the premium payments to the union
>to hire a consultant to review the medical plan.
>Rodrigues, however, did not notify the union that he had selected
>his daughter, Robin Rodrigues Sabatini, to be the consultant,
>according to federal prosecutors. Sabatini did little or no work for
>the hundreds of thousands of dollars she was paid, the prosecutors
>said.