Philadelphia Convention Center Files RICO Lawsuit Against Carpenters Regional Council

The state agency that operates the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia May 7 sued the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters in federal court, claiming that it violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by engaging in a “continuous and overarching illegal conspiracy” to force the agency to assign MRCC members convention center work that the union previously abandoned (Pa. Convention Ctr. Auth. v. Coryell, E.D. Pa., 2:15-cv-02534, complaint filed 5/7/15).

MRCC members were banned from working at the convention center after the union failed to meet a May 2014 deadline to enter into a new customer ...