John Duff Jr

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.

 

Chicago Duff Family Tied to HERE Corruption

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 02/14/2000 - 01:00

Kurt W. Muellenberg, the former-court-appointed monitor over the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Int'l Union, banned Chicago boss John Duff III Feb. 11 from HERE office for life.  Muellenberg issued a report that said Duff cheated HERE out of $172,000, knowingly associated with organized crime figures, and ran an illegal Fla. bookmaking operation while on the union payroll.  Duff remains a boss in the Liquor & Wine Sales Reps., Tire, Plastic & Allied Workers Union, Local 3, a union founded by his father.

Duff is a son of John Duff, Jr., the head of a family whose companies have won $100 million in government business from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (D). The U.S. Atty.'s office is reportedly investigating several Duff contracts with the city as well as Muellenberg's allegations.

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