Defendants Plea Guilty to Extorting Money from Dock Workers | cnbnews.net

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John H. Hoffman announced that a former top official of the International Longshoremen’s Association, a former Newark police officer and a third man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from an investigation into a scheme to extort money from dock workers by demanding \”tribute\” for better jobs and wages.The three men were indicted in 2011 in \”Operation Terminal,\” an investigation by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor into the activities of a criminal enterprise that exercised control and corrupt influence over International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) locals operating shipping terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Two other defendants previously pleaded guilty.