California Cash: L.A. Coliseum Officials Gave Union More Than $1 Million In Cash Payments
February 1st 2012 · 0 Comments
Coliseum officials made $1 million in cash payments to union
Bundles of cash were used to pay wages of IATSE members for concerts and other productions, with no controls on disbursement. The U.S. Labor Department is investigating.
Paul Pringle and Rong-Gong Lin II | Los Angeles Times
Feb. 1, 2012
For at least five years, officials with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum passed bundles of cash totaling more than $1 million to a union representative, sometimes in a suitcase packed with $100 bills.
The payments, ranging from $1,400 to $187,700 each, were to cover the wages of stagehands on Coliseum events — rave concerts, Cinco de Mayo performances and a Lakers championship celebration — according to records and interviews.
Invoice reports from the publicly owned Coliseum, obtained by The Times under the California Public Records Act, show that the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees received the cash advances from March 2006 through last February. But the Coliseum imposed no controls over whether the money ended up in the right pockets, and the commissioners who govern the property say they may have been swindled.
["May have been swindled? Ya think? Ed.]
Read the rest @ LATimes.com.
Tags: IATSE, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Union Corruption
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