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Disgraced NYC Union Boss to Recoup Ferragamo Shoes, ‘Bundles of Cash’
July 5, 2023 // Former Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association leader Norman Seabrook will get back the designer shoes, as well as two “bundles of cash” that contained $5,600 and $1,000, according to a court filing signed last week by federal prosecutors in New York and Seabrook’s attorney. The feds also agreed to turn over a separate quantity of cash totaling $1,100, as well as a laptop and a cellphone seized during his 2016 arrest by federal agents for accepting bribe money. But one item Seabrook will not be getting back is the designer handbag he accepted stuffed with thousands of dollars in bribe money.
A former Illinois State Senator convicted in corruption scheme gets a new job — state lobbyist
May 10, 2023 // State records show Stragetia’s state government clients in the current legislative session are the city of Oakbrook Terrace, the village of Itasca, Americans for Fair Energy Prices, the Justice Grown cannabis dispensaries and SoundThinking — the recently rebranded company behind gunshot-detection software used by the Chicago Police Department. But in 2019, Cullerton was charged in a 41-count federal embezzlement and conspiracy indictment related to an alleged scam where he received payments from a Chicago labor union for little to no work. Cullerton was accused of receiving more than $274,000 in payments and benefits from Teamsters Joint Council 25 for being a purported union organizer. The indictment alleged Cullerton routinely did not show up for work with the union after he landed the lucrative gig from former Teamsters Joint Council 25 President John Coli Sr., who pleaded guilty to federal extortion and tax fraud charges in 2019.
Former treasurer-secretary of local union charged with embezzling $30K
April 30, 2022 // The former treasurer-secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 26 was charged federally this week with embezzling more than $30,000 from the local labor union over five years.