{"id":553,"date":"2009-07-27T16:41:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:30","slug":"election-fundraising-fraud-granite-state-union-bosses-illegally-divert-worker-s-dues-money-to-union-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/election-fundraising-fraud-granite-state-union-bosses-illegally-divert-worker-s-dues-money-to-union-pac\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Fundraising Fraud: Granite State Union Bosses Illegally Divert Worker&#8217;s Dues Money to Union PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen Nashua, New Hampshire postal worker Philip Wakeman paid dues to the National Post Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU), a division of the Laborers&#8217; International Union, he had no idea that union bosses would illegally launder his money into their political coffers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn July 2006, Mr. Wakeman gave a check to the NPMHU union for the full amount of his annual union dues. On the &quot;Memo&quot; line at the bottom of the check, he wrote &quot;Union Dues.&quot;\u00a0 A union official later acknowledged receipt of the dues and everything seemed fine \u2013 that is \u2013 until he received a bizarre phone call.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn October 2008, over two years after submitting the check to the NPMHU union, a stranger informed Wakeman that she found his information on the internet and suggested he do a &quot;Google&quot; internet search of his name. The search results were astounding:\u00a0 Mr. Wakeman found\u00a0his name disclosed as making a contribution in the exact amount of his annual NPMHU union membership dues to the NPMHU Political Action Committee (PAC) \u2013 all\u00a0without his knowledge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nApparently NPMHU union bosses had illegally diverted his dues payment to the union&#8217;s PAC.\u00a0 Wakeman contacted the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and Foundation attorneys filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is illegal for union officials to fund union PACs using &quot;dues, fees, or other moneys required as a condition of membership in a labor organization.&quot;\u00a0 NPMHU union bosses are also accused of violating federal election\u00a0law by making a political campaign contribution in another person&#8217;s name and failing to inform Mr. Wakeman that his membership dues would be used for political purposes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo read the Foundation&#8217;s media release regarding the FEC complaint, <a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/07\/postal-worker-files-fec-complaint-NPMHU-laundering-scheme-07282009\">click here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo read the FEC complaint, <a href=\"\/files\/nrtw\/NPMHU_FEC_Complaint_07272009.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen Nashua, New Hampshire postal worker Philip Wakeman paid dues to the National Post Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU), a division of the Laborers&#8217; International Union, he had no idea that union bosses would illegally launder his money into their political coffers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn July 2006, Mr. Wakeman gave a check to the NPMHU union for the full amount of his annual union dues. On the &quot;Memo&quot; line at the bottom of the check, he wrote &quot;Union Dues.&quot;\u00a0 A union official later acknowledged receipt of the dues and everything seemed fine \u2013 that is \u2013 until he received a bizarre phone call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Election Fundraising Fraud: Granite State Union Bosses Illegally Divert Worker&#039;s Dues Money to Union PAC - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/election-fundraising-fraud-granite-state-union-bosses-illegally-divert-worker-s-dues-money-to-union-pac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election Fundraising Fraud: Granite State Union Bosses Illegally Divert Worker&#039;s Dues Money to Union PAC - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When Nashua, New Hampshire postal worker Philip Wakeman paid dues to the National Post Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU), a division of the Laborers&#039; International Union, he had no idea that union bosses would illegally launder his money into their political coffers.    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