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[DBK]

Union boss, top aide get sentenced

September 25, 2006



By DAVID ASHENFELTER

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Michigan carpenter’s union boss Ralph Mabry and his former top assistant were sentenced to prison Monday for conspiring to obtain a $127,800 discount from construction companies that helped build Mabry’s $803,000 home in Grosse Pointe Park in the late 1990s.

Family members gasped and sobbed when U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman announced the sentences. Friedman sentenced Mabry, 60, to 24 months in prison and fined him $50,000. Former carpenter’s union President Anthony Michael, 64, of Macomb Township was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in prison and fined $3,000. Their lawyers had asked Friedman to consider probation.

Lawyers for both men said they would appeal the February 2006 jury verdict.

Mabry, executive secretary/treasurer of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights, said he would recommend a replacement to the union’s executive committee and step down later today pending the outcome of his appeal. Both men will remain free pending their appeals.

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I sense a cartoon on Iraq.

[cASe SenSiTive]

He still came out $77,800 ahead. :dontknow:

;)

[mdhmi]

So we should spend $30,000 each for those guys to sit in prison? Why not just fine them a million dollars? Or shoot them?

[Belowme]

130K? i guess you have to be a republican to embezel on a serious level...aka ken lay...were you up in arms about that bush backer stealing millions from its employess?

[Roadrage]

130K? i guess you have to be a republican to embezel on a serious level...aka ken lay...were you up in arms about that bush backer stealing millions from its employess? You know, for once, you could just say "yeah, they are thieves". But I guess deflecting the focus onto someone else works better for you.

[Belowme]

hey...i like straw men ;)

it was a serious question...since he was indeed implying that unions and by default of the neo-con "thinking" (using the term 'thinking' loosely here for the neo-cons...we know they dont think) that unions are corrupt. well...is he outraged by the rampant republican corruption???

ALL corruption is wrong...quit making me invent the straw man to prove you wrong :D

[monster.]

130K? i guess you have to be a republican to embezel on a serious level...aka ken lay...were you up in arms about that bush backer stealing millions from its employess?

I totally agree, and at the end Kenny boy was fined too. WHY NOT GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO THE EMPLOYEE'S HE STOLE IT FROM NOT THE GOVERNMENT!!!!

Two Union Bosses go to jail for trying to save $120,000 for a project that ran close to a million. Even if they pocketed that money, I'm willing to bet the house, the whole project was way over budget in the first place, and they lost twice that just building the damn thing.

[Foolsgold80z]

I totally agree, and at the end Kenny boy was fined too. WHY NOT GIVE THE MONEY BACK TO THE EMPLOYEE'S HE STOLE IT FROM NOT THE GOVERNMENT!!!!

Two Union Bosses go to jail for trying to save $120,000 for a project that ran close to a million. Even if they pocketed that money, I'm willing to bet the house, the whole project was way over budget in the first place, and they lost twice that just building the damn thing.

Sooo, what's your point? A shitbag thief is a shitbag thief, regardless of
political affiliations. Sheesh.

[Performance Red Dale]

Did Ken Lay hold political office?

[DBK]

Typical relativists. Ken Lay should rot in jail, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that some shitbag Union asshole sticks his hand in the cookie jar while standing on the "workers of the world unite" cookie jar...