Daily News | One of Johnny Doc’s closest allies is pleading guilty weeks before the labor leader’s next trial — and she’s not alone
strategizing over how to exert union influence over local and state elected officials in wiretapped phone conversations played during Dougherty and Henon’s bribery trial last year.Instead, she was charged with 11 counts including conspiracy, embezzlement, wire fraud and falsification of union financial reports tied to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of union money investigators say she, Dougherty and the other union officials and associates spent on themselves.
Prosecutors say Crawford was so generous with handing out tickets to personal friends that one union official quoted in the indictment began to refer to Local 98′s luxury suite at Lincoln Financial Field as “Marita’s Box.” It even allegedly paid for their birthday celebrations — for Dougherty, a nearly $1,400 shindig at Old Homestead restaurant in Atlantic City in 2015, a $425 catered meal from Francoluigi’s Pizzeria for his father the next year, and a $477 dinner at Palladino’s on Passyunk Avenue for Crawford in 2016.
And Rodriguez, the other Local 98 employee expected to plead guilty Monday, was often tasked, according to the indictment, with making those purchases. The others are Dougherty’s nephew Brian Fiocca, who is also charged in the case and Crawford’s son, Tom Rodriguez, who is not related to Niko Rodriguez and was not indicted along with the others.
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