A federal grand jury has indicted one current and one former official of an iron workers’ union local in Indiana on charges that they used violence and threats of violence to extort a construction contract from a local firm, the Dept. of Justice says.
DOJ said that Thomas R. Williamson Sr. and Jeffrey R. Veach were arrested on Aug. 16. Each was charged with one count of extortion conspiracy and two counts of attempted extortion, all under the Hobbs Act.