The Chicago Tribune reports:
James Capasso Jr. walked into a union pension fund office in 2002, announced he was retiring from Laborers' Local 1001 and applied for a pension.
The request was curious, considering Capasso had never held a paying job with Local 1001. In fact, he had been making more than $100,000 a year working full time as executive director of the Laborers' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, a city pension plan with more than $1 billion in assets.
Here's how the Justice Department
identified James Capasso Jr.:
James Capasso. Jr.
Positions Held in Local 1001
32. Capasso was appointed as a "trustee of the executive board of Local 1001" in June 1984, a position not established by the LIUNA Uniform Local Union Constitution. In October 1984, Capasso was appointed as an auditor to fill the vacancy created by the mid-term resignation of Anthony Orrico. Capasso remained an auditor of Local 1001 until he retired in 2002.
Connection to Organized Crime
33. Capasso was involved in bookmaking activities for the Chicago Outfit with James "Little Jimmy" Marcello, a high-ranking LCN figure, who is currently in federal prison. Capasso has been identified by sources within the Chicago Outfit as an organized crime associate.
Unions and the Mob in Chicago: nice people to do business with.
