Fabric_Man: "Lawyers with the Justice Department's Fraud Section have alleged that the co-conspirators stacked Las Vegas Valley homeowners association boards with members who pushed for construction defect lawsuits against builders. The boards then steered legal and construction repair work to co-conspirators."

Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all farkin' night.

Fabric_Man: "Lawyers with the Justice Department's Fraud Section have alleged that the co-conspirators stacked Las Vegas Valley homeowners association boards with members who pushed for construction defect lawsuits against builders. The boards then steered legal and construction repair work to co-conspirators."

Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

This was exactly what I was thinking; "Man, the Mafia's running out of ideas..."

Seems their gated communities are more steel-caged communities

Doctor_TeethMD: When it looked like they could get twenty-five years to life in prison just for skimming a Home Owners Association sick or no farkin' sick you knew people were going to get clipped.


*Applause*

que.guero: America, for the rich, screw the rest.

Home of the free.... if you can afford it.

Las Vegas + Henderson + beat up =

I get the feeling that organized crime might be involved in this.

He's a federal witness to a scheme that goes much higher than him, an illegal scheme dedicated to fleece large amounts of money for nearly nothing.

After it is revealed that he may co-operate, he just happens to get beaten?

I might have an overactive imagination but that is my hypothesis.

Dick_Hertz: special20: Fabric_Man: "Lawyers with the Justice Department's Fraud Section have alleged that the co-conspirators stacked Las Vegas Valley homeowners association boards with members who pushed for construction defect lawsuits against builders. The boards then steered legal and construction repair work to co-conspirators."

Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

Yeah !! Leftists can't stand the TRUTH, so GTFO.
And don't be telling anymore TRUTH, or the ignorant Leftists will get all butt-hurt again!

Yeah, whatever stereotype the "left" has for you right-wing TOOLS with your radio show talking points, and your Fox News information. Wooptie-farkin-doooo... everybody GTFO. That means you too, Ron Jeremy's money maker.

You can eat me.

beta_plus: Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

Calm down, he's just giving some historical perspective to show this scam has had many flavors through the ages.

Listen, anytime somebody makes a crack about labor - I'm going off. There's been too much bad mouthing unions lately. The same folks who deride the unions forget that they have a 40 hour week, insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, weekends (1938 Fair Labor Standards Act), holidays, minimum wage, child labor laws, and many other things that their heroes "the job creators" would likely snuff out as quickly as possible if (and when) they could.

I'm sick of it. Same stupid crap spewing out of their collective gobs.

To recap for you:
If you do not work a (60) hour work week without week-ends off you have the labor unions to thank. If your child is not working in a factory you have the labor unions to thank. If your employer provides medical insurance you have the labor unions to thank. If you are female who wants equal pay for equal work you have the labor unions to thank. If you have taken advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act to take care of your newborn you have the labor unions to thank.

And... GTFO, right-wing shills. Thanks.

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HENDERSON!

OSBALDISTON!!!

Punch a waterfall!

Dick_Hertz: special20: Fabric_Man: "Lawyers with the Justice Department's Fraud Section have alleged that the co-conspirators stacked Las Vegas Valley homeowners association boards with members who pushed for construction defect lawsuits against builders. The boards then steered legal and construction repair work to co-conspirators."

Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

Yeah !! Leftists can't stand the TRUTH, so GTFO.
And don't be telling anymore TRUTH, or the ignorant Leftists will get all butt-hurt again!

It's a toss-up who I detest more: union scumbags, or right-wing TOOLS.

special20: beta_plus: Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

Calm down, he's just giving some historical perspective to show this scam has had many flavors through the ages.

Listen, anytime somebody makes a crack about labor - I'm going off. There's been too much bad mouthing unions lately. The same folks who deride the unions forget that they have a 40 hour week, insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, weekends (1938 Fair Labor Standards Act), holidays, minimum wage, child labor laws, and many other things that their heroes "the job creators" would likely snuff out as quickly as possible if (and when) they could.

I'm sick of it. Same stupid crap spewing out of their collective gobs.

To recap for you:
If you do not work a (60) hour work week without week-ends off you have the labor unions to thank. If your child is not working in a factory you have the labor unions to thank. If your employer provides medical insurance you have the labor unions to thank. If you are female who wants equal pay for equal work you have the labor unions to thank. If you have taken advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act to take care of your newborn you have the labor unions to thank.

And... GTFO, right-wing shills. Thanks.

Whoa, calm down sparky. Unions and the mafia had a really, really close cooperation in the past, just look at Jimmy Hoffa. The mafia had a lot of rackets, including police, local businesses, casinos - and stating that there was a connection with those groups doesn't mean your against them. That's ludicrous.

The rise of organized labor at the start of the 20th century was one of the great things to happen in this country. To acknowledge that some unseemly elements took advantage of it, and of workers' relative weakness to the powers that be, doesn't disparage what they did, or the importance of unions.

/ Involved with the political side of our union here, so definitely not anti-union.

struct: special20: beta_plus: Replace the homeowners associations with unions, and you have the standard Mafia scams of the 40s and 50s.

Hello right-wing shill.
GTFO

Calm down, he's just giving some historical perspective to show this scam has had many flavors through the ages.

Listen, anytime somebody makes a crack about labor - I'm going off. There's been too much bad mouthing unions lately. The same folks who deride the unions forget that they have a 40 hour week, insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, weekends (1938 Fair Labor Standards Act), holidays, minimum wage, child labor laws, and many other things that their heroes "the job creators" would likely snuff out as quickly as possible if (and when) they could.

I'm sick of it. Same stupid crap spewing out of their collective gobs.

To recap for you:
If you do not work a (60) hour work week without week-ends off you have the labor unions to thank. If your child is not working in a factory you have the labor unions to thank. If your employer provides medical insurance you have the labor unions to thank. If you are female who wants equal pay for equal work you have the labor unions to thank. If you have taken advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act to take care of your newborn you have the labor unions to thank.

And... GTFO, right-wing shills. Thanks.

Whoa, calm down sparky. Unions and the mafia had a really, really close cooperation in the past, just look at Jimmy Hoffa. The mafia had a lot of rackets, including police, local businesses, casinos - and stating that there was a connection with those groups doesn't mean your against them. That's ludicrous.

The rise of organized labor at the start of the 20th century was one of the great things to happen in this country. To acknowledge that some unseemly elements took advantage of it, and of workers' relative weakness to the powers that be, doesn't disparage what they did, or the importance of unions.

/ Involved with the political side of our union here, so definitely not anti-union.

Hoffa did what he had to do and he paid the piper. Unions have to have political influence, and sometimes have to (just like in politics) make strange bed fellows. We all know that Hoffa disappeared, and that known mobsters may have been responsible for his disappearance, but the problem here is that unions keep getting painted with the same broad brush; corrupt, mobsters, strong arm tactics. It's just like saying all politicians are corrupt, or all corporations are evil. Does that make sense?

The fact that unions represent labor, and "eat into PROFIT" is why today, we have so many narrow minded assholes deriding unions. It's the rich and powerful that have poisoned the well about unions in America, and that's just wrong. It's oppressive.

Anyway... carry on with the relevant topic regarding the beating of that old gutter snipe. Sorry for the thread jack.

So, let's see if I've got this right:

Federal Investigation targets "lawyers, judges and police officers."
This dork lawyer is the first one to cop a plea (hence he gets the best deal when the heads start to roll)
The dork lawyer and his buddies were taking over HOAs and then suing the building contractors via their other buddies' law firms (PROFIT!)
Now the lawyer, his lawyer buddies, their law firms, and the HOAs are going to get sucked down the FBI's drain.
The lawyer gets a beatdown probably by thugs hired by either the HOAs, his "buddies", or possibly some of the contractors who have been paying through the nose and want some street justice.

I'm not seeing any major downsides here, really.