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Webb Backer Hillary Clinton Linked to Union Leader Arrested on

Racketeering Charges

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being so kind to Hillary over these years and this last year of hard

campaigning. " above remark was from then President Clinton, made to

one Brian McLaughlin, at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in

Flushing , New York on October 23rd, 2000 "

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Below is from the October 17, 2006 on line edition of

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Union Leader Charged With Racketeering

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

A seven-term assemblyman and labor leader who was credited with

revitalizing the nation's biggest municipal labor council was

arrested on federal racketeering charges today and accused of

stealing more than $2 million in union and public money.

The indictment charges the union leader, Brian McLaughlin, with a

pattern of thefts over the last decade, including siphoning $95,000

from bank accounts for a Little League for the children of union

members; installing a relative to head a commission on the dignity

of immigrants, then collecting the relative's salary; and using

union members to walk his dog, hang his Christmas lights and

renovate his $760,000 home on Long Island.

Michael Garcia, the United States attorney for Manhattan,

characterized the pattern of thefts as " stunning in its breadth and

scope " at a news conference today. " This case lends a new meaning to

the term, `hand in the till,' " Mr. Garcia said. " It is a case about

greed. "

Mr. McLaughlin faces up to 500 years in prison if convicted of 44

counts in the 180-page indictment, including fraud, embezzlement,

money laundering, the use of phantom employees and receiving cash

and other bribes from companies that employed union members.

" His Midas touch turned everything into gold, " said Andrew Arena,

special agent in charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation.

The indictment alleges that Mr. McLaughlin used members of his

electrical union, while they were on the union clock, to perform

personal tasks for him, like installing and removing appliances,

painting, changing light bulbs, hanging picture frames, shoveling

snow, hanging Christmas lights, fixing plumbing, removing garbage,

changing locks and cleaning out a barn.

The thefts were not limited to his position as labor council

president, officials said.

The indictment charges that, as founding member and district leader

of the William Jefferson Clinton Democratic Club of Queens, a

nonprofit club that raised money to support candidates for public

office, Mr. McLaughlin misappropriated more than $19,000 for

personal expenses, like the rent at his Albany home, and to install

a wide-screen plasma television at the home of " a person with whom

he maintained a personal relationship. "

He is also accused of using more than $330,000 from his political

campaign committee to pay for personal expenses, including bills for

his son's wedding, renovating his home in Nissequogue, N.Y., paying

his country club initiation fee and house cleaning.

Noting that the real work of Mr. McLaughlin's union, Division J of

Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, was

to install and maintain street lights and traffic signals in New

York City, Rose Gill Hearn, commissioner of the city's Department of

Investigation, which also participated in the investigation of the

union leader, suggested that the public might now be able to look at

street lights without cringing.

" You can be assured, " she said, that the people who are supposed to

be installing street lights, are " no longer mucking stalls or

shoveling snow on Mr. McLaughlin's property. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/17cnd-labor.html