Bill Lloyd has been silently and unceremoniously removed
from his job as the Executive Director of SEIU Local 99 in Los Angeles, according
to inside sources and online materials.
In 2004, Andy Stern appointed Lloyd as the trustee of Local
99, which represents 25,000 public school workers in Los Angeles.
For those who
don’t know him, Lloyd is the fat-cat SEIU official who’s notoriously
ineffective despite pocketing no fewer than three
separate paychecks from SEIU totaling $224,000 a year. Lloyd also enjoys multiple perks, including an eight-year-long, SEIU-paid hotel room at the
Wilshire Grand Hotel.
Lloyd is also known for his infamous sexual
affair with Local 99’s previous president, Janett Humphries, while she was embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the union's members. In 2006, Humprhies pleaded guilty in federal court to
four counts of embezzlement and one count of conspiracy. Oh yeah… Bill Lloyd is also a member of SEIU’s
International Executive Board.
So what happened to Bill Lloyd?
According to a source inside Local 99, Lloyd -- after eight
years as Local 99’s top official -- was quietly removed from his position earlier
this week. Tasty’s source says that Lloyd’s disappearing act has many people
scratching their heads. The source writes:
there wasn’t a ceremony or anything. No announcement really to most of the staff either – one day he was just gone.
Hmmm…. So where’s Lloyd now?
Well, just like other corrupt SEIU officials such as Rickman Jackson
and Annelle Grajeda, Lloyd was given a purple parachute that landed him inside
the Purple Palace where he’s now (get this) a “Senior Adviser” to SEIU
President Mary Kay Henry!
Huh?? For anyone who knows Lloyd, the only advice he’s capable of delivering is related to expensive clothes and fat paychecks.
So who replaced Lloyd at Local 99? Courtni Pugh, according to this announcement
on Local 99’s website. Pugh formerly served as the Executive Director of the
SEIU California State Council until she was ousted because she couldn’t do the
job. For the past two years, she’s been working as Bill Lloyd’s “Special
Assistant.” Wow!
Pugh also has another interesting connection to Local 99
that brings everything full-circle. At one point, Pugh was hired by Martin Ludlow to work at
the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Ludlow was Janett Humphries’s
partner in crime during the embezzlement scandal at Local 99 that's discussed above. In 2006 Ludlow pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to embezzle the union's funds with the help of Humphries. Here’s how the Los Angeles
Times described it:
In hopes of avoiding jail, Ludlow agreed to cooperate with authorities in the federal prosecution of Janett Humphries, the former head of Service Employees International Union Local 99, who is accused of working with Ludlow to divert the funds… Ludlow admitted to improperly using union money to pay six people who were put on the union payroll but who actually worked on his City Council election campaign.
A federal judge ordered Ludlow to pay back nearly $40,000 to
Local 99’s members and sentenced him to five years’ probation, 2,000 hours
of community service and barred him from serving in any leadership position in
SEIU for 13 years.
Well, sounds like Pugh has all the experience and connections she'll need for her new job
at Local 99!
