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Clerk Finds the Ledger That Brings Down a Union Boss: The Local 219 Pension Fraud
Clerk Finds the Ledger That Brings Down a Union Boss: The Local 219 Pension Fraud
A dog pulled a canvas bag from a drainage corridor containing $4,700 in banded cash, two handwritten pages, and a charged prepaid phone stenciled with "GARFIELD FALLS TEAMSTERS LOCAL two hundred nineteen WELFARE AND PENSION FUND" - who placed it there and why did they never return? The bag led federal investigators to a fraud that had run for roughly eleven years and quietly neutralized the system meant to stop it.
In this episode, we trace how routine habits and a single filing clerk’s notebook exposed…
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