Ex-Leader Of Probed Union Seeks Support For Madigan Mailing Goes Out Over His Name
By Rick Pearson, Tribune political reporter. Tribune staff reporter John Chase contributed to this report. Thousands of union sewer and tunnel workers began receiving letters last week urging them to support Democrat Lisa Madigan for attorney general, but the name attached to the mailings was surprising. The letters to members of Laborers Local 2 were signed, "Fraternally, Richard S. Caravetta, business manager." They asked members to take part in House Speaker Michael Madigan's "Friends and Family" political network on behalf of his daughter. But only weeks before, Caravetta had resigned from his union post in an agreement with national union officials investigating his alleged ties to organized crime. http://www.laborers.org/Trib_Local2_mail_3-6-02.htm
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