Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-line, handwritten note from President Clinton to Arthur Coia, signed "Bill" and thanking Coia for the gift of a handcrafted golf club ("It's a work of art!"). The second was a draft 212-page complaint from the Justice Department, previewing a lawsuit to place the Laborers' International Union of North America under federal control and oust Coia as general president, on grounds that he had knowingly let mobsters run the 750,000-member union...
...they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that could have forced Coia to testify about an embarrassing matter. In 1994, according to the original Justice complaint, he tried to consolidate all of upstate New York's training funds--a traditional source of slush--in the Mob-controlled Buffalo local but was blocked...
Then, in 1992, Ralph bought into the theories of a scam artist named Roy Schwasinger. Schwasinger was founder of a group called We the People, which claimed that the Federal Government had lost a huge class-action lawsuit on behalf of America's landowners, and that a trillion dollars was sitting in a settlement account. For $300, We the People sold a kit with instructions for claiming part of the settlement--and for issuing one's own "checks" against this windfall in the interim. (Schwasinger is now in prison...
This angered Grisham, who took to the pages of the Oxford American, a magazine he publishes, to excoriate the filmmaker. "He's an artist and he can't be bothered with the effects of what he produces," Grisham wrote. But just let Stone lose a million-dollar product-liability lawsuit, "and the party will be over...
After the lawsuit was filed, the Office of the General Council served Garzilli with a letter informing Garzilli she could never return to the department, according to University Attorney Allan A. Ryan...