Suit Says Workers Swindled Union ; Trustees: Job Scams Used in $1m Fraud

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Clerical workers were paid $47.50 per hour, while a dentist received $123,000 a year for working two afternoons a week reviewing claims. One employee earned an annual salary of more than $100,000 simply for retrieving voice-mail messages twice a week.

Those are some of the misuses of funds alleged in a lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Newark, against several employees of Local 734 of the Laborers' International Union of North America in Rochelle Park.

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Suit Says Workers Swindled Union ; Trustees: Job Scams Used in $1m Fraud

The lawsuit asserts that the employees swindled its members by providing "non-essential" jobs and overpaid positions to relatives and close associates. The lawsuit charges that the pension and welfare fu...

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