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Boss Blicht Pled Guilty and Gets 2
Years On Honest Services Fraud After
Bailed For $100000
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 12 – Glenn Blicht,
president of International
Longshoremen's
Association Local
1964 in
Ridgefield
Park, New
Jersey, was
presented on
July 26 on honest
services
fraud charges before
U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Stewart Aaron.
He wore a
yellow t-shirt
and had
retained
counsel, who
tried to hand
his passport
to Assistant
US Attorney
Maureen Comey.
Blicht was
released on
$100,000 bond
and free to
travel in the
tri-state
area. Inner
City Press
stayed on the
case, and now
notes that on
February 12,
2020, Blicht
after pleading
guilty was
sentenced to
24 months in
prison by
District Judge
Analisa
Torres.
According to
the Complaint:
"From 2009
through the
present,
BLICHT served
as an officer
of the Union,
including as
its president
for many
years.
In that role,
BLICHT had a
duty to act in
the best
interests of
the Union and
its members,
including by
avoiding
personal
financial
conflicts of
interest with
the
Union.
Nevertheless,
BLICHT
demanded and
received cash
payments from
the Employer,
which employed
a number of
members of the
Union.
In exchange
for these
bribes, BLICHT
declined to
file
arbitration
claims on
behalf of
Union
members.
In total,
BLICHT
received at
least
approximately
$150,000 in
bribes from
the Employer
over
approximately
10
years.
In
communications,
a number of
which were
recorded,
BLICHT
repeatedly
referred to
the bribe
payments as
“tickets,” in
which each
ticket equaled
a $1,000
bribe.
BLICHT
instructed an
official of
the Employer
(the
“Official”) as
to the number
of “tickets”
to pay BLICHT
each
time.
Indeed, during
the past year,
the Official
met with
BLICHT several
times and paid
him bribes on
approximately
three
occasions, at
the direction
of law
enforcement.
Each of these
meetings was
recorded."
Inner City
Press, which
was present in
the Mag Court
on July 26,
said it would
continue to
cover this
case. And it
has. It is US
v. Blicht,
19-cr-591 (Torres).
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