The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that former crane operator Kenneth Campbell, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, who had become the boss of IUOE Local 82, was also fined $287,000 for bribery.
In October 2008, Campbell plead guilty to the charges of embezzling four televisions, a Lincoln Town Car, demanding and receiving unlawful labour payments on the Goldman Sachs office tower in Jersey City, New Jersey, the Jersey City Golf Course Project, and for demanding and receiving cash in exchange for union admittance, according to court documents.
In a written plea to the judge to reduce his sentence submitted in January, his lawyer Brian Neary said: “Mr Campbell exercised extremely poor judgement by following along with the dishonesty that was part-in-parcel with the position he attained at the union. While he did not invent the schemes that went on here, regretfully, he participated in them.”
In August 2008, IUOE Local 14 agreed to Federal oversight after after the US Eastern District of New York court made a civil suit against the organisation in late July on charges of links with racketeering and corruption.
In October, a New York City grand jury indicted the owner of Long Island’s Nu-Way Cranes Services, Michael Sackaris, and former crane inspector James Delayo, on charges related to bribery.
