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Walsh will be very disappointed if he finds out one of his minions was involved in alleged Teamster shakedown of TV show
By adamg on Thu, 10/01/2015 - 9:11am
The Herald outlines the charges against those five Local 25 members arrested yesterday, catches up with Mayor Walsh to ask about the section in the indictment that says an unidentified "City Hall official" did his or her part to harass "Top Chef" through phone calls to the Omni Parker Hotel and a restaurant where the show had been planning to film.
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It will be interesting to see
It will be interesting to see if the Feds have issue with the way Coakley's office took campaign cash from the Teamsters and declined to investigate the incident.
The Teamsters acted the way they did because of a permissive environment at the local and state level. Can you imagine what else they've gotten away with which wasn't publicized or prosecuted?
"very disappointed..."
... that s/he got caught
My takeaway from the Herald
My takeaway from the Herald coverage: the Top Chef people had to get an "open flame" permit from city hall for candles on a dining table? That sounds like a racket run out of BFD.
No more ridiculous than other permitting
Did you know that any food service biz in Boston that has a single TV on the wall (like just about every take-out pizza place in the city), has to pay for a $120/year entertainment license? ($180 if the TV is HD or over 27").
Without being too specific...
...Because I generally enjoy my kneecaps. A few years back I was hiring people for a local production and was 'politely' steered to hire a couple of union member relatives of one of these goons.
And a year or two after that we were paid an 'unofficial visit' by a couple of OTHER goons that were trying to make us hire Teamsters to drive fucking minivans.
If these scumbags hadn't been lucky enough to fall into a union they'd all be dead or in jail.
And they're all Mahty's pals.