Check out this two-minute TV news clip with the latest details on the corruption scandal involving SEIU's Dana Cope.
Cope is the latest member of SEIU’s International Executive Board to face criminal corruption charges.
In recent weeks, Cope surrendered to authorities and posted bail after being
charged with two
felony counts that could land him in jail for 15 years, according to WNCN
TV in Raleigh, N.C.
Cope was nabbed by union members who
blew the whistle after uncovering records that he spent $570,000 of workers'
dues dollars on personal flying lessons, clothing, jewelry, massages, plastic
surgery, landscaping for his home, a trip for his family to China, etc.
COPE is a member of SEIU's
International Executive Board and also is the highest official at the State Employees Association of North
Carolina (SEANC), an SEIU local that represents 55,000
state employees.
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| Mug shot of SEIU's Cope |
On the news clip, Michael Weisel, an attorney who represents the whistleblowers, says
the following about SEIU:
"There was a complete failure within the organization itself. They didn't follow their own rules. They didn't follow the written bylaws. They didn't follow the written procedures..."
After union members blew the whistle
on Cope's corruption, SEIU officials "vilified" them... until journalists and criminal
investigators proved they were completely correct.
Cope is the latest SEIU official to
face charges, an indictment, an/or jail time for corruption. Others include Tyrone
Freeman, Alejandro
Stephens, Annelle
Grajeda, Janett
Humpries, Byron Hobbs,
Rickman Jackson
and Paul
Varacalli.
Click the following hyperlinked text to see the WNCN news story: “Dana
Cope Makes Bond after Surrendering to Authorities.”
