ALA Union Boss Marcus Asay Found Guilty of Crimes

ALA Union Boss Marcus Asay has been found guilty of a multi-year pension fraud scheme, and it turns out he wasn’t the only one. Click here to read about ALA union boss Antonio Gastelum’s guilty verdict as well.

From the Department of Labor:

On June 18, 2024, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Marcus Asay, the founder and chairman of the American Labor Alliance (ALA) (located in Fresno, Calif.), was found guilty following a 19-day trial of committing a multi-year pension fraud scheme. The jury also convicted Asay and ALA of committing separate workers’ compensation and hardship exemption fraud schemes in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341 and 1349, 18 U.S.C. 1956, and 18 U.S.C. 1343. The total loss associated with all of the schemes was over $3,000,000. The guilty verdict follows an investigation by the OLMS San Francisco-Seattle District Office, the Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR