Recorded Evidence of Extortion Not Enough to Convict Union Thug

As fellow members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98, Greg Gibson, a project manager during the 2020 construction of a South Philly casino, and Greg Fiocca, the nephew of then-Local 98 Business Manager John Dougherty, were theoretically “brothers.” 

But when he heard an angry Mr. Fiocca was headed to his construction trailer that August 19, Mr. Gibson anticipated a less-than-fraternal encounter.

He prudently flipped on his phone’s audio recording before Mr. Fiocca, an electrician and a union shop steward, arrived. 

The nearly 40-minute tape made by Mr. Gibson features, in the words of Philadelphia Inquirer journalists Jeremy Roebuck and Oona Goodin-Smith, Mr. Fiocca’s “profanity-laced accusations” and “[m]uffled noises of him choking, slapping and spitting on” Mr. Gibson.

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