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Release Date: 01/30/1998
Release Number: USDL:
NY 111
Contact Name: GLORIA DELLA
Phone Number: 202.219.8921
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The president and owner of Employee Health Plan
Administrators, Inc. of Westbury, N.Y. pleaded guilty to one count each of
embezzlement and mail fraud in connection with employer contributions he failed
to remit to the health and welfare plans of local 119 of the Brotherhood of
Industrial Workers in New York City. |
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Clarke Lasky is scheduled to be sentenced on April
10 by Judge Arthur D. Spatt. He pleaded guilty on Jan.23, 1998 after being
indicted Feb. 6, 1997 for collecting on two separate occasions monthly employer
contributions and failing to remit the money to the fund. He also was charged
with converting those funds to his own use and embezzling approximately
$750,000. |
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According to John E. Wehrum Jr., Regional Director
of the U. S. Department of Labor’s Pension and Welfare Benefits
Administration (PWBA), and John McGlynn, Regional Inspector General of the
department’s Office of Investigations — both located in New York City
-- alleged that Lasky, through EHPA, was the designated administrator and
collective bargaining representative on behalf of hundreds of employers having
associate membership with local 119. |
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EHPA operated as a health benefit consultant and
administrator and represented employers with respect to matters of health
benefit coverage under the BIW Health & Welfare Fund of Local 119. The firm
was contractually obligated to collect employer and employee health benefit
contributions from those employers and transfer them to the BIW Fund. |
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This case was jointly investigated by the
department’s New York Office of PWBA and Inspector General along with the
U. S. Postal Inspection Service. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph R.Conway. |
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(U. S. v. Lasky) |
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