United States v. Thomas McGowan

LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by a union official convicted of complicity in the receipt of illegal payments from union employers in violation of the Tafh-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. § 186(b)(1) and (d)(2). Thomas McGowan was the Manhattan business agent for Local 580 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron-workers Union (“Local 580”). He was found guilty on two counts involving payments to-talling $15,000 made by Sanford Monosson, president of Mannix Industries, Inc., an employer of members of Local 580 at the Spring Creek construction project in…