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McLaughlin's Misdeeds

• Allegedly misappropriated more than $100,000 from a J Division account maintained for the benefit of the J Division and its membership to pay his personal credit card bills and country club dues

• Allegedly accepted payments from contractors that employed J Division union members receiving approximately $400,000 in illegal cash payments from J Division contractors

• Allegedly received three cars from J Division contractors, one of which he provided to his son and another of which he provided to a person with whom he had a personal relationship. He also used union members to perform a construction project for one of his associates in exchange for nearly $61,000 in payments on a Mercedes-Benz for his wife

• Allegedly used J Division workers to perform personal tasks for himself and his family including major and minor construction projects, shoveling snow, searching for and capturing rodents in his basement, removing trash and changing light bulbs

• Allegedly misappropriated approximately $185,000 from the Central Labor Council, after having the organization hire an associate as a consultant and employee and funneling the money back to his own personal bank account. He used the money for rental payments for an apartment in Queens; payments for a car driven by one of his children, mortgage payments for a new home in Nissequogue, Long Island and payments to a school that one of his children attended

• Allegedly misappropriated more than $35,000 as an Assemblymember from the State of New York creating fake positions on his legislative staff and took a share of the salary for that position as well as submitted false claims for reimbursement of his daily expenses

• Allegedly misappropriated more than $19,000 from the William Jefferson Clinton Democratic Club, which he founded, in order to pay rent on an Albany residence, and buy a wide-screen plasma television for a person he had a personal relationship with

• Allegedly misappropriated nearly $100,000 from the Electchester Athletic Association, a not-for-profit corporation formed primarily to finance a Little League baseball program at a housing development designed to provide affordable housing for union members and others.

• Allegedly misappropriated more than $330,000 from his political campaign committee to pay for extensive construction and renovation projects at his home in Nissequogue, for his country club initiation fee, for cleaning his personal residence and for expenses relating to his son's wedding