As the IAFF Board gives the Feds the finger
Another UAW leader falls
MarketWatch reports that Timothy Edmunds, a United Auto Workers treasurer, “has pleaded guilty to embezzling $2.2 million to bankroll his high-octane gambling habit and to buy guns and luxury cars.”
Edmunds is the 7th recent UAW bigwig to be rung up for union treasury theft.
Former UAW president Gary Jones “was sentenced to 28 months last summer for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy golf clubs, lavish meals and fancy cigars and booze.”
Harold Schaitberger, former longtime IAFF president, is also under investigation by the Feds for his obscene use of multiple IAFF credit cards and limitless expense accounts to fund — you guessed it — lavish meals and fancy cigars and booze.
And much more.
He once had us pay for a $12 Scrabble game.
But there’s also improper expense reports, obscene severance payments, and taking an IAFF pension while being paid $300K a year as IAFF president.
He didn’t do it alone, however.
The IAFF trustees and the wholly complicit board aided and abetted the swindle in a silent and lazy quid pro quo where they got the royal treatment for looking the other way.
The board received obscene pay raises, retirement benefits, phony expense payouts and severance pay for driving Schaitberger’s getaway car.
The Mafia should be so lucky.
Some of this epic thievery is detailed in the Schnader investigative report which ten members of the IAFF board, the Schaitberger-10, are voting to hide from the members.
Do they think the Feds aren’t watching?
What must the Feds think of this band of thieves actively hiding the truth from IAFF members while their investigation is underway?
It’s proof positive that the FBI and Department of Labor should wade in waist deep to the cesspool that is the IAFF leadership and unclog the drain so that the filth can wash away.
Release the Schnader report, unedited and in full.
