Florida Union Bosses Indicted on Numerous Criminal Charges

Darryl Brice Payne, President,  and Tianni Latrice Wade, his executive Assistant, were charged with numerous conspiracies to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Associaiton, Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, FL.   Mark Young, Browardnetonline, has the story.

Payne and Brown are both charged in Count 1 with conspiracy to steal money, funds, property, and other assets of the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 1526 (“ILA Local 1526â€) in Fort Lauderdale, from March 2008 through August 2009.  

According to the indictment, Payne and Brown prepared and used false and altered documents to deceive union officials and obtain union funds purportedly to pay for legitimate assets, goods, services and travel expenses for the use of the union.  In fact, however, those expenses covered the personal expends of the defendants and others.
 
The indictment also alleges that Payne and Brown corruptly endeavored to obstruct the grand jury investigation by causing the production of false documents in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, and by withholding and failing to produce other documents that were required to be produced in response to a federal grand jury subpoena.  The indictment also alleges that Brown made false statements to Special Agents of the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, who were conducting the investigation.

If convicted, the defendants face the following possible maximum statutory sentences: Counts 1-11, 13, and 17: up to five years in prison; Count 12: up to 10 years in prison; and Counts 14-16:  up to 20 years in prison.