Brian Eddis, a business agent for the council since 2021, has been removed from the job. Building Trades Council business manager Ryan Boyer declined to comment on the decision.
Brian Eddis of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, presents a gift bag of Philadelphia sports apparel to U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty J. Walsh at the Laborers’ Training and Learning Center on July 3, 2021. Eddis was removed from his job as a business agent with the council last week.
Eddis’ name has surfaced several times throughout the criminal proceedings against Dougherty, though prosecutors have not charged him or accused him of wrongdoing. He did not respond to multiple calls for comment Tuesday. Dougherty has been convicted in two separate trials on bribery and embezzlement charges., and Frank Keel, a spokesperson for the council, declined to comment on Eddis’ termination.
During Dougherty’s most recent criminal trial, which centered on embezzlement charges, prosecutors used a recorded conversation between Dougherty and Eddis in 2016, as they alleged that the former union leader usedfor friends of Local 98. Those who benefited included Kevin Dougherty, then-City Councilmember Bobby Henon, the head of Philadelphia’s police union, and several ward leaders, prosecutors said.
Henon “was under a lot of pressure, a lot of stress. As a sober member of , I was worried about him picking up a drink,” Eddis said. “If he fell off the ladder, John would want me to be there for him. This is a brotherhood, a fraternity.”The changing Building Trades
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