U.S. District Judge Nitza I. Quinones Alejandro on Monday
refused to dismiss a federal civil racketeering lawsuit filed against the
carpenters union and its leaders including now retired secretary-treasurer
Edward J. Coryell Sr.
The suit, filed May 8, 2015 by the Pennsylvania
Convention Center Authority, accused the Metropolitan Regional Council of
Carpenters, now called the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, of
racketeering by conspiring to interfere with the center's business in
retaliation for losing the right to work at the Center in May, 2014.
The Center particularly accused the carpenters of vandalism and intimidation
during the 2015 Philadelphia Auto Show. In their motion to dismiss, the union
and its leaders said they may have been uncouth,
but they were not racketeers.
Source: Philly.com
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