April 24, 2019
Prosecutors pushed back Tuesday against a powerful Philadelphia union leader's argument that a bribery case against him is unwarranted, saying that putting a city council member on the union payroll in exchange for exerting government influence in the union's favor amounts to a bribe.
March 21, 2019
A powerful Philadelphia union boss on Thursday accused federal prosecutors of engaging in a "feeble attempt at criminalizing the legislative process" in an indictment accusing him of bribing a member of the city council.
January 30, 2019
The politically powerful head of an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local in Philadelphia was charged Wednesday in a 116-count federal indictment alleging he embezzled more than a half-million dollars in union funds and paid a city councilman, also charged in the case, to do his bidding in government.