Liquor & Wine Sales Representatives (LWSR)

Crony of Duff Family Sentenced for Contract Fraud

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 02/27/2006 - 01:00

The final door in the eternal federal case against Chicago’s once-mighty Duff family has closed.  On January 27, Terrence Dolan, former operations manager for a Chicago-based company, Windy City Maintenance, was sentenced in federal court to 21 months of imprisonment followed by three years supervised release, ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution to the City of Chicago, and fined another $1,100 for his part in falsely indicating the firm as female-owned in winning a lucrative city contract back.  Dolan was the last of six defendants to be sentenced in a joint probe by the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Labor and the City of Chicago.  He had pleaded guilty in October to 11 counts of mail fraud.

 

Duff Associate Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 01:00

The contracting fiefdom of Chicago’s Duff family all but ended in May with the sentencing of four top members and associates for various fraud, money-laundering and racketeering offenses.  Last month saw additional closure.  On October 20, Terrence Dolan, former operations manager for Windy City Maintenance, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to 11 counts of mail fraud.  Windy City, a Duff-owned business, falsely had filed as a woman-owned business in order to land a contract from the City of Chicago.

 

Four Sentenced for Role in Chicago Schemes

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 06/20/2005 - 00:00

It may not have been an actual empire over which the Duff family presided in their native Chicago.  But it was hardly a Mom-and-Pop operation either.  Family patriarch John Duff, Jr., his wife Patricia, and their sons had grown wealthy over the decades, having cultivated ties both to City Hall and the underworld.  But the past few years have seen the Duffs fall upon hard times, after lengthy investigations by the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) and Office of Inspector General, plus the FBI and the IRS.  The most important chapter may have been closed in U.S. District Court this May 18-20, with the sentencing of four persons for fraud, money laundering and racketeering.

 

Duffs of Chicago Hit with Federal Indictment

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 09/29/2003 - 00:00

The family that has run the Chicago-based Liquor & Wines Sales Representatives, Tire, Plastic and Allied Wrkrs. Union was hit with a federal indictment on Sept. 25.  James Duff, his mother Patricia, and longtime union employee William Stratton were charged with defrauding the city of Chicago of more than $100 million in contracts intended for women- and minority-owned businesses.  These are the first indictments of major supporters of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.  The Duff family has sponsored at least 2 fundraisers for Daley, while their businesses and the union they control have contributed some $32,000 to Daleys campaigns.

 

Federal Labor Law Probe Expands to Chicago City Hall

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 04/01/2002 - 01:00

The federal labor law probe of the Chicago-based Liquor & Wine Sales Representatives, Tire, Plastic, and Allied Workers Union has reportedly expanded into a public corruption investigation. A federal grand jury has subpoenaed records from Chicago's City Hall related to a mob-connected family whose janitorial company has won tens of millions of dollars in city-related contracts since Mayor Richard Daley (D) took office.

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