Clerk Finds the Ledger That Brings Down a Union Boss: The Local 219 Pension Fraud
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Clerk Finds the Ledger That Brings Down a Union Boss: The Local 219 Pension Fraud
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A dog pulled a canvas bag from a drainage corridor containing $4,700 in banded cash, two handwritten pages, and a charged prepaid phone stenciled with "GARFIELD FALLS TEAMSTERS LOCAL two hundred nineteen WELFARE AND PENSION FUND" - who placed it there and why did they never return? The bag led federal investigators to a fraud that had run for roughly eleven years and quietly neutralized the system meant to stop it.
In this episode, we trace how routine habits and a single filing clerk’s notebook exposed discrepancies in vendor payments, how Local 219’s welfare and pension fund served about 2,200 members across three counties, and how a predictable union officer’s life masked a long-running scheme; what finally broke the pattern and brought the case to a federal task force?
Person: Bruce Bishop
Role: Secretary-Treasurer of Local 219
Date found: April 11, 2009
Amount in bag: $4,700
Members affected: approximately 2,200
- The bag was found by Lisa Padgett behind the trucking depot on Kelso Road after rain on April 9 and April 10, yet the canvas was dry.
- The bag read "GARFIELD FALLS TEAMSTERS LOCAL two hundred nineteen WELFARE AND PENSION FUND" and contained two handwritten pages and a prepaid phone with a full charge.
- By noon on April 11, 2009 the bag was in the hands of federal task force investigator Gary Dixon.
- The pension fraud had been running for roughly eleven years before discovery.
- Local 219 represented approximately 2,200 workers across three counties and collapsed within fourteen months.
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