$42 Million Union Embezzlement case, Little Media Coverage » THE UNION LABEL - Exposing union corruption one post at a time

$42 Million Union Embezzlement case, Little Media Coverage » THE UNION LABEL - Exposing union corruption one post at a time: "Union operative Melissa King of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) has been arrested for stealing $42 million in union funds to support the lavish lifestyle to which she and her daughter have become accustomed. It is being called the biggest union theft in history. So why haven’t we heard of this union theft? Why hasn’t it been all over the news?

That would be a good question and Brian Johnson, for one, asked the question himself. Johnson makes an interesting point when he notes that the Old Media have lost its collective mind over the Bernie Madoff scandal, yet they’ve made barely a peep about this monumental theft by a union member.

Famously nicknamed the “sandhogs,” the LIUNA is a union that represents the workers that dig the tunnels that are networked throughout New York City. It is they that are responsible for sewer tunnels, the subway, and other such excavation work.

Melissa King had the opportunity to steal all that money because she administered the union’s benefit investments. As Carl Horowitz notes:"