City Workers’ Union Taken Over by National Parent After Audit …
WEBSep 21, 2022 · The administratorship is the latest financial scandal at Local 1549, whose members are among the city’s lowest-paid workers. In 2001, Al Diop, the former president of the now 12,000-member local, was sentenced to up to four years in prison for rigging a union election and ripping off union funds.
Lessons From DC 37's Past - The Chief
WEBAug 24, 2000 · During last month's contract vote-fixing trial of former District Council 37 leaders Al Diop and Marty Lubin, one of the primary witnesses against them, Mark Shaplo, seemed compelled to let the world …
Lavish World of a Union Leader Now Under Fire - The New York Times
WEBDec 9, 1998 · The private elevator, until recently, served the select guests and allies of a union official named Albert A. Diop. It carried Mr. Diop and his friends to a penthouse that tops the 10-story...
Union Jacked - The Village Voice
WEBAug 24, 1999 · Diop, head of the 25,000-member clerical workers union, has been indicted— along with two other DC 37 veeps— for using the Barclay Street headquarters as a penthouse apartment and billing rent...
HILL ALLY IS SUSPENDED IN NEW DC 37 $CANDAL - New York Post
WEBMar 4, 1999 · Al Diop, president of the 120,000-member municipal union’s second-largest local, and three of his top officers were suspended for racking up $910,000 on corporate credit cards and for another...
UNION BIG JAILED IN VOTE SCAM - New York Post
WEBAug 29, 2001 · Al Diop, 66, longtime president of the 22,000- member Local 1549 and once considered the No. 2 man of the District Council 37 parent union, “violated the trust of his membership,”...
DC 37 BIGS CONVICTED OF FRAUD - New York Post
WEBJul 26, 2000 · Al Diop, 65, earned $206,000 a year as the leader of 22,000 city clerical workers, until he resigned in disgrace last year. His lawyer, Ramon Pagan, said Diop will appeal the fraud conviction,...
Another Union Corruption Scandal Shows Why the PRO Act Needs …
WEBSep 22, 2022 · Al Diop, president of the 120,000-member municipal union’s second-largest local, and three of his top officers were suspended for racking up $910,000 on corporate credit cards and for another $1 million in “unexplained” payments, DC 37 officials said.
Clerical error: Local 1549 taken over by AFSCME due to ... - The Chief
WEBSep 24, 2022 · This is not the first controversy at Local 1549: former president Al Diop was sentenced to jail time in 2001 for rigging a contract vote and for embezzling more than $1 million in members' dues money, which initially went unnoticed because the union had not been audited for four years.
Al Diop President Local 1549 | Portside
WEBJan 30, 2019 · Richard Steier The Chief-Leader. Stanley Hill rose through the ranks of District Council 37. He became its first black executive director but was forced to resign when the union was rocked by a corruption scandal involving some of his closest aides and political allies. Subscribe to Al Diop President Local 1549.