Plumbers Expel and Fine Maddaloni, Patchell for Fraud
A special independent panel of three retired union officers last month found Maddaloni and Patchell guilty of violating provisions in the unions constitution. In addition to the permanent expulsion, Maddaloni was fined $700,000 and Patchell $500,000. The unions general executive board appointed the panel to hear charges filed by individual union members, locals and state associations.
"I know that you will find the facts in this report extremely disturbing, as I do," plumbers President William P. Hite wrote in the July issue of the unions magazine, UA Journal.