"Rules"?
Guidelines from the FOP Board about viewing the books and expense accounts of your own Labor Organization (click for larger version):
Anyone know how you're supposed to be able to conduct anything approaching a thorough review under these types of "rules"? And with those time restrictions? And no written notes?
How about you work for the Officers, you are paid by the Officers' dues. What are you hiding? How much are you hiding?
Sgt Pallohusky got twelve years for almost bankrupting the PBPA. Is the FOP headed the same direction?
Labels: FOP
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
85 Comments:
Egregious!
All those rules put by kitty kats suckholes on the board with his number 1 ass kisser disantis that's why his triple jaw is full.of jcats goo and coz the mcgoo of spew right behind him. hopefully kitty kats next trip is to the federal building he can be burkes.celly
Pallohousky is an amateur compared to Catanzara and his band of thieves..
No. They aren't. And anybody who has been to a meeting and has heard the finance secretary speak they would know as much. He repeatedly brings this case up and would never risk it for his livelihood.
Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge
D-2 Quarterly Report
7/1/2024 to 9/30/2024
$461,700.00 In itemized expenditures going to questionable political campaigns. One big question mark is the donation of $5k to the Citizens to Elect La Shawn K. Ford on Aug. 30, 2024.
La Shawn Ford for those that don’t know was the main culprit for pushing the SAFE-T Act.
See the full report for yourself…
https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/ItemizedExpenditures.aspx?FiledDocID=GnXPsAflIul0S0XJ6Dd4FA%3d%3d&ExpenditureType=7PO3RGHF2W%2fsyStv1naW9vd6PLmRT8u2mEDnPt%2bcsAk%3d
Time to flush the toilet. Vote ALL of them out. They’re hiding A LOT.
All unions and not for profits have to be audited every year and auditor issues a report. Find out who the auditor is and there should be a final report. If not call department of labor in DC. They’ll open an investigation. Or call AG office in Illinois.
fuck 'em.. stop paying dues...
They don't want members viewing the board meeting minutes because they spend the majority of the meeting insulting the members.
You know who else has rules like this- THE VATICAN
You see the smoke boys!!!
I noticed that credit card recipes and expenditures are not listed items allowed for viewing.
Other than run around and yell like an idiot this retard has done nothing to help the members. He's was a medical abusing cop that got cr numbers on working Police and now he is stealing from the lodge with both hands along with his merry band of idiots. The contract he got was the same one that the city offered so save the few dummies that will argue the great deal he negotiated. Much like conehead he sold the members lies and promises that he never believed.
Yup, Mr arrogant will end up in prison.
Ha! These guys need to "observe" us, like we're the ones stealing?! GTFO. Who's watching these guys?
Uh, only the last year? Loose see, you got sum splain'n to do
What do you expect? These are the same guys that tailgated at the DNC, then claimed they worked longer and harder than cops who actually worked it.
And this is the huge problem with Catanzara, Disantis and others they support like Lonergan....with a pension that is only funded 20 percent???? You idiots bought into the smear campaign ran by FOP and voted for the swindler.
This is what a handful of people have been screaming about for quite some time now, but they’ve been summarily dismissed by J-Kitty as “crazy” or “unhinged” and called a million names by his handpicked board of yes men.
There is no reason for FOP to keep dues paying members from examining financial records… UNLESS THEY’RE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING.
I honestly don’t think Cantanzara has a fucking clue just how much dirt they have on him and the rest of the Board. And smart money says their discoveries regarding FOP’s financial fuckery with OUR money has drawn the attention of other interested parties. Can you say Covid PPP money used to buy a food trailer when it was supposed to pay the salary of FOP office people? Can you also say Cantanzara blabbed about this at a general meeting? Said meeting forever memorialized by the recording secretary as well as filmed/recorded by concerned members 😉
And then the rumor mill says the State FOP colluded with Cantanzara, co-signing on killing the appeals process to further deny access to our financials. The boys at National are supposedly also tap dancing around the issue currently.
Here’s the most telling thing to take away from all of this: NONE OF THESE RESTRICTIONS TO REVIEW FINANCIAL RECORDS - WHICH BELONG TO THE MEMBERSHIP - EXISTED UNTIL THEY WERE CREATED AND IMPLEMENTED BY CANTANZARA AND VOTED ON BY HIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tick tock, boys. Who’s gonna be the first to talk when the Big Boys show up?
“Sgt Pallohusky got twelve years for almost bankrupting the PBPA. Is the FOP headed the same direction?”
John Cantanzara makes Pallohusky look like a piker.
The good thing about all of this is that the Feds/IRS don’t play games. Not to mention they get off when they catch coppers dirty and bring charges against them.
Imagine the raging hard on they have at the thought of bringing down the entire FLOP on assorted financial crimes. The evidence is there… all it took was for someone to expose it and someone to take interest in pursuing it.
Pallohusky, that's a blast from the past.
Why are you allowing them to deduct dues from your paychecks. You can opt out of that program. They are literally stealing your money.
Heading? It's almost there.
Johhhhnnny....open the books you slime ball.
"I can't talk now,....get with my people".....
Fuck you John,.....Big Fuck you....I'll say it....THIEF !
No notes is a big problem……OT…..the other problem is that the fair share members are up to “10”, and the FOP won’t tell us who they are. That’s a big problem. I don’t want to work a car with a person that is diametrically opposed to our union and sticking together..
Folks that means that the no union member will hire their own attorney and spin things onto you and the FOP attorney. It becomes a blood bath.
This reads like it was adapted straight from the outfits union rules.
This is a long way from the F.O.P. We voted in because they were honest. Open the books what are you afraid of. 😱😱😱
When you see rules like this you know something is rotten at the core.
John if this is true I will not be voting for you ever again. I have been your biggest supporter till now.These new or old rules aren’t how you conduct a fair business.
I am really getting sick and tired of this FOP bullshit. I was a strong supporter of John when he first ran and also for re-election. Now, he has become such a dick and feels rules don't apply to him but to everyone else. He's lost my vote next time around. If he loses, he has no pension as the city stripped him of that.
John and his cults first order of business after the last election was to vote themselves all a raise and we're suppose to be surprised that they're embezzling money? But don't worry, they do it all for the members.
Good job to all of us letting JerkCat run amok. Who could have seen this coming.
Trust me on this...
Where there's smoke, there's fire...
These rules sound like something the Groot or Conehead Administrations would mandate for Taxpayers and screams of corruption!
Fuck the FOP rules, Ill be damn sure Ill look at any book with my lawyer ON MY time !! I pay dues and you assholes work for ME.
Pallohusky stole millions and served less than 3 years and whined the whole time about how he was innocent.Was a good jailhouse lawyer for inmates who were working on getting their time reduced at Taylorville CC.
Time to de-certify the FOP.
WTF!
And the total irony? John Catanzara himself regularly accessed and reviewed every FOP document under the sun, as was his right as a dues paying member. Under every other regime, it was as simple as just phoning them a little bit ahead of time to inform them you were coming in, and what you would like to see, if not, just stopping in and asking to review things. You were able to make copies of anything you wanted to take with you… Because all those records belong to YOU, the dues paying FOP member in good standing. There was complete transparency with how YOUR dues money was being spent. From FOP employee salaries, money spent on political endorsements, golf outings, Santas village, fundraisers for suspended POs to FOP credit card statements for travel, lodging etc. EVERYTHING was accessible because it belongs to YOU. they voted these changes in once Jon took office for no other reason than to make it difficult if not impossible to see records. Unless you’ve got your head buried in the sand, this is very damning and very telling. And for Jon to involve the state and possibly the national lodge with running interference for him when these members started asking questions? Well, that should tell you all you need to know that they’re hiding something. I don’t think the guys at state and national know what they’re signing onto by backing John, but given the tenacity of the officers making the inquiries, they’re going to find out and they’re not gonna be very happy when they do.
Someone should look at the credit cards.. especially for Fatstavich. Almost every day he’s posting on Facebook at downtown restaurants and steakhouses getting a “snack” which I’m sure he’s billing as lodge related. Guarantee all on the company credit card.
Sounds like they’re taking advice from CTU. This is as close to refusing to release your financials as you can get.
Dump the fop ASAP and get a real union these clowns are scamming all the members
And now after this last pension board election, they have their greedy fingers in our pension.
Then why won’t they post the financials on the web?
This the reason why they don’t have transparency. How did you give conehead and fatso?
DiSantis is a total goof! As soon as he secured a union spot I knew things were shaddy. Ms Monica is a total tool as well
Call em as I see em
Can't wait to see you all at the next general membership meeting! Oh wait nvmd nobody will ask a single question like usual but will come and cry online instead
This is extremely concerning and I sure as hell am not voting for JCAT and gang come next election. Now imagine not having SCC to inform you all of the shady practices. Thank you SCC for all you do for us.
You can see any board meeting minutes and you can also sit in on any Board Meeting.
The members need to pay attention. Just because he is vocal and stands up for us doesn't mean he gets to live like a fat kitty and we get to have our days off cancelled. How about no special events until our manpower is up? How about WHERE IS THE FUCKING CONTRACT? Seriously should be their number one priority. WTF John, your article about how you worked harder then all of us during the DNC is bullshit. Such hard work to flip a fucking burger. Not to mention some districts and units have NEVER SEEN your PPP food truck. The three letter agencies are very interested in your spending, your finances, your campaign contributions that you kept 10K from us and 10K from state when you never ran for National president. Your ppp loan for a staff who stayed home during covid and is always paid by our dues that you admitted you didn't need the money for so you reassigned it to the food truck? If you don't think that they were not called, provided evidence and are digging right now, then you are as dumb as I think you are. Have you even researched how little money one has to misappropriate to be indicted? HA! Nothing will make me happier then to see you the subject of a search warrant. Monica and Dennis are nervous now and tell people they don't agree with a lot that you are doing but will the sing to save their freedom? Your circle isn't as tight as you think it is. Oh and congrats to your boy on his engagement to the other woman. That was a quick transition from sad widower to happy fiancé.
The FBI should get to DeSanti and Denny McGuire they both will sing like canaries
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the "fair share" people don't work the street. Or they have no idea how much legal representation costs if they end up in the trick bag.
What is everyone waiting for?
And queue Jagballs Johnny in 3… 2… 1…
He’ll be chiming-in momentarily, to claim this is all a smear campaign by a few disgruntled broads who didn’t win their respective spots in the last election. That they’re racist for calling out the fact that he appointed a field rep with zero experience. That he has the full support of “his” board to make any and all rule changes that he wants of thinks “are in the best interest” of the membership.
He’ll pound his chest again telling us all how he and his ball polishers cooked 25 hours a day for the troops during the DNC (from the previously mentioned food trailer bought with federal PPP funds that - at least on paper provided to the federal government - paid his essential office staff). He’ll belittle anyone who dares ask if this fact is true and then quickly deflect and redirect onto some other Lodge 7 “success story” that be alone is responsible for.
Meanwhile, the Cantanzara Groupies and those who don’t care to pay attention are unaware that the first thing King Kitten did when elected was vote himself and the board a raise. Paid for by membership dues. And then they passed a new bylaw which allows them healthcare coverage from when they retire until Medicare at 65 years old. Paid for by membership dues. This is on top of membership dues paying the difference between their Police salary (if not retired) and FOP salary. On top of their pension contributions, also paid with membership dues.
And without fail, as he can’t take criticism, he’ll call out everyone who posted anonymously. Inconvenient truths uncovered by meddling members are particularly burdensome for John as he can only spin the lies so long before it all comes crashing down.
$5,000 to a politician, but he doesn't spend a dime on a razor and shaving cream. He looks like a slob whenever he is on TV.
Thieves in plain sight & not even hiding it
This is silly, FOP is THE only real option in the nation for law enforcement representation. Like all things human related, it has the same problems.... but you can always VOTE or make motions to change things. GO TO MEETINGS. If you don't go to meetings or vote, you're just another person in the way.
Last time 990 was public FOP has cash
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/362/362467755/362467755_201012_990O.pdf
This is what infuriates many of us. Catanzara hand picked Lonergan to run against Ro so that FOP can control our pension. Catanzara spread absolute lies about Ro to get annuitants to vote for Lonergan. And it worked.
It's ironic how the exact lies that John said about Ro was really describing himself. HE is the one who got CRs on cops, HE is the one who filed bankruptcy. HE is the one who stole money from fellow officers. HE is the one who was a medical roll abuser. HE is the one who lies and wears a mask.
Does anyone else realize a pension funded at 20 percent is ridiculous and dangerous? And now you got the same old boys network running things at the pension board as FOP. We are so fucked.
Is this Dennis McGuire, Fatstababitch, or Holy Roller Rob chiming in? Just cuz the financial suckretary spews out numbers don’t mean they jive. Which is why the records need to be compared. And when they refuse to let you see the records, there’s a problem. It’s a quite simple concept that seems elude you. Try using your adult brain for a minute here and it should click.
Bring back Detective First Class Mike Shields.
I work hard and get to play hard.
It's not the organization that's the problem, it's the people we elect to run it.
Yup. JRat had Bella copying allll kinds of docs and running down to the store to give him da goods. John is everything a cop should NOT be. Vote this goof out please. Putting on his personalized fop apparel and making a statement every month or so does not a president make. And a big no on Mette who has watched jrat run wild.
John changes times and days for Board Meetings at last notice to keep members who might challenge him out.
Dennis, then include the expenditures and credit card spending in your financial report. How much did members spend on meals to contribute to the boards rising BMI?
Ha! I've seen how you guys treat anyone who asks a question that you don't like at those meetings. You idiots think people don't ask questions or go to meetings because they support you. People don't ask questions because you guys are bullies and they don't bother with the meetings because they can watch a couple of guys jerk each other off in the privacy of their own homes.
Thank you SCC. I'm so glad you're back to expose this kind of stuff. I honestly think he got elected last time because you were not here.
JCAT isnt responding. Usually he would respond and attach his name to his post
Nailed it !
Chairman of the Crustees, disanti's billable food hours should be of no surprise. Him and jakliscous ar at La Scarola having the special Lonergan Liver and onions.
Sorry to have to break the news to all of you “5 year veterans”, but anyone with 20 plus years on knew everything about John and warned everyone, as did I. However, the new generation doesn’t care to respect the senior officers and their knowledge from years of experience. John never backed up anyone, obtained CR’s on coppers and was a medical abuser when he wasn’t stripped. Good choice guys and girls, did you vote for the Cackler as well? Almost every negative story anyone has heard about John is factual, yet actual members of law enforcement were easily fooled. Disgraceful.
Too much shit to read. Here's a list of it:
Members are being restricted from viewing financial records
New rules limit access to financial documentation
Credit card receipts and expenditures are not listed as viewable items
Questions about why financials aren't posted on the web
Board meetings and minutes access is being restricted
Meeting times allegedly changed at last minute to limit member participation
$461,700 in itemized expenditures to political campaigns
$5,000 donation to La Shawn K. Ford (noted as SAFE-T Act supporter)
Questions about PPP money usage for food trailer
Board voted themselves a raise after election
Healthcare coverage for board members until Medicare age
Concerns about restaurant/steakhouse expenses on credit cards
Pension fund allegedly only 20% funded
I got his from a "friend":
Based on federal labor law and union regulations, these types of severe restrictions on members' access to union financial records may be problematic or potentially illegal. Here's why:
Legal Framework:
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959:
Guarantees union members the right to examine union financial records
Requires unions to maintain detailed financial records
Members have the right to view these records "for just cause"
Key Legal Issues with These Restrictions:
Excessive Limitations:
The very narrow time windows (only 4 hours per day)
15-day response delay
Two-member maximum
Prohibition on taking notes
Required supervision by board member
Department of Labor Guidelines:
Unions must provide "reasonable access" to financial records
Members have right to take notes and make copies
Access shouldn't be unnecessarily burdensome
Transparency Requirements:
Unions must file annual financial reports (LM forms)
Members have legal right to examine these records
Arbitrary restrictions on access may violate federal law
Legal Options for Members:
File complaint with Department of Labor
Contact state Attorney General's office
Seek legal counsel specializing in labor law
File internal union appeals
Report to National FOP organization
While unions can implement reasonable procedures for records access, these restrictions appear designed to obstruct rather than facilitate member oversight, which could violate federal labor laws protecting union members' rights to financial transparency.
Note: Members should consider consulting with a labor law attorney for specific legal advice regarding these restrictions.
I agree. Lazy, arrogant, grab ass do-nothings. Each one of them.
Dump the entire team. It’s time for something new.
Dennis will sing like a bird. (Chirp, chirp) Hopefully the FBI grabs him first.
Agree!
While I supported Ro and voted for her, I do believe that there are more Retiree's that are Not on social media sites so those mailers the FOP sent out for Lonergan worked. Those of us on SM saw what was happening with that FOP push for Lonergan. And yes the pension is Fucked with so many of the trustee's being supported by the FOP.
The FOP is not a union.
How can the city strip him of his earned pension?
Seems like alot of DOGS have Cat Derangement Syndrom since he won against the old guard of politically connected cucks of the dying 19th ward (Donahue). They always backed and donated to Demorats like Fran Hurley even over police officers that were more qualified. I Dont understand the restrictive nature of these rules and it seems right to question it. But I dont believe there is any malfeasance or theft.
Wow, thank you!
Not yet. My connection at the lodge says JohnnyBoy is chomping at the bit to fire off an ignorant response (he can’t help himself with his big mouth) only the in-house attorneys have said not to say shit until they review and OK it. Which is very telling in an it itself. But I’ve got faith in motor mouth kitty. He’ll definitely say some shit at the next general meeting to try and spin in and he’ll half-assed call out people who post “private union business “ on the blog anonymously and he’ll prob direct some venom in the direction of EJ and MO. These chicks got his number bigtime and he took the hook and it’s seated nice and deep. Johnnys big ego and bigger mouth is gonna be what’s sinks him. Too bad for the rest of the crew there as he’s taking a good portion of the Washington Blvd clown show down with him.
Wasn’t McGuire dumped from asset forfeiture because of a missing laptop? And saved by daddy the inspector?
Didn’t he also hook his son up with a cushy water dept job?
It is a public sector union
Ro and Svec are mentals glad she didn’t make it. Also the pension, while low is up, the city is ahead on payments, and the intercept has been used before and worked.
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