James W. Cahill, president of New York State's Building & Construction Trades Council, has pleaded guilty to bribery charges that he accepted more than $140,000 from open shop contractors in exchange for helping them win contracts, federal prosecutors announced.
Cahill was charged two years ago—along with 10 officials of plumbers’ and pipefitters' union Local 638 and Local 200 in New York City and Long Island—with soliciting bribes between 2018 and 2020 that were also made in exchange for helping nonunion firms avoid employing building trades workers.