Arguments over the recording, what it means, and whether it should have been played at all for jurors as the government wraps up its case stretch back years.
’s nephew assaulted a supervisor on a construction site prompting his bosses to demand he be booted from the job, the union leader was still seething about that request.
Prosecutors say it shows the union chief’s willingness to defend his nephew at all costs. They’ve accused Dougherty of threatening economic repercussions for the contractor overseeing Fiocca’s work if his nephew didn’t remain on the job.As it happened: Local 98 business agent details calls with John Dougherty over complaints about his nephew
Prosecutors have not publicly identified who made it, except to say a member of Dougherty’s inner circleDougherty insists it’s how investigators first learned of Fiocca’s Aug. 19, 2020, assault on his casino-site boss — theMore importantly, he’s maintained, the FBI’s use of an informant close to him well after he’d been indicted in 2019 on bribery and embezzlement charges constitutes a violation of his rights so severe that all of the charges against him should be thrown out.
It wasn’t the first time, Thompson said, he’d been called upon to mediate disputes between Fiocca and his bosses on various construction projects. In another phone call played Tuesday for jurors in court, Dougherty groused to others that Fiocca’s continued bad behavior was “handcuff for no reason.”
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