Schaitberger Panics, Misleads Members Again
Board Engages in Further Cover Up
Harold Schaitberger has been thrown a lifeline and like a drowning man, he is holding on for dear life.
At the other end of the rope are members of his executive board who have done his bidding for twenty years.
They have signed off on every improper and unethical act Schaitberger has ever conceived.
They are the automatic “yes men” for Schaitberger’s misdeeds:
- Giving multi-million dollar no-bid contracts to his friends
- Spending $370,000 to spy on members
- Abusing expense accounts
- Failing to provide any oversight to principal officer pensions
- Assenting to his manipulation of Vincent Bollon’s replacement process
- Driving a board member out of office
- Creating lucrative thank you “jobs” for favored former board members and staff
- Turning a blind eye to the conflicted house purchase
- Betraying affiliate leaders
- Taking fraudulent vacation pay, etc.
In propping up Schaitberger, they are simply covering up their cover-up, further institutionalizing their failure to perform yet again.
A committee of three members (Frank Lima, chair and Tom Thornberg and Mike Carter) has published a report which is a blatant attempt to distance Schaitberger from any discussion, involvement, knowledge, interference or influence in any decision by the executive board involving the awarding of his pension or the changes made along the way.
Such is their desperation that Frank Lima is forced to conjure up deceased former secretary treasurer Vincent Bollon to support a dubious version of facts including the tenor of the relationship between the two principals.
Regardless of the results of Lima’s seance with Vincent Bollon or Schaitberger’s statements to the contrary, his taking of the pension in 2000 was not allowed by either official rules or the IAFF.
The real facts have yet to emerge making Schaitberger’s panic both premature and a window onto his timid soul.
