Robert Card, 40, was found dead nearly two days after committing two mass shootings that killed 18 in Lewiston, Maine.
Dougherty and others are accused of having embezzled more than $650,000 from Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers between 2010 and 2016.PHILADELPHIA — Longtime former Philadelphia labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty is on trial on embezzlement charges, accused of having stolen from the union he led for nearly three decades.
“Over and over, again and again, he stole, he lied, and no one stopped him,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Bea Witzleben told jurors in her opening statement Monday, The Philadelphia Inquirer She indicated that much of the government's evidence will take the form of wiretap recordings, telling jurors they will hear Dougherty say he got away with the spending by trying to “keep it within reason so it don’t look too crazy.
“This is a case of negligence, not fraud,” attorney Gregory Pagano told the panel. “Negligence is not a crime.” Dougherty, the business manager of the Philadelphia-area IBEW Local 98 and the business manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, was indicted in 2019 after a lengthy FBI investigation.
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